Thing 14

Flowcharts are an excellent tool for demonstrating concepts, relationships, and organizing material.  Prior to this exercise the only flowchart I had created was done by hand and very unprofessional in appearance.  For this “thing” I chose to explored Gliffy and Bubbl.us.  Gliffy specializes in flowcharts while Bubbl.us is a mind map application. After signing up for a free trial account on both sites I decided to create a flowchart depicting a frog’s life cycle. This topic relates to two projects that I am currently working on.  Out of the two applications I preferred Gliffy. I reviewed the online tutorial for both sites but still found myself struggling with Bubbl.us .There are a wide variety of tools on Gliffy that are extremely easy to use.  I foresee many areas in which this application could be utilized within an educational environment. This application could be used to create flowcharts to organize research material for lessons, organize the flow of instruction, and demonstrate complex concepts or relationships in a more simplified manner for easier comprehension. It would also be beneficial to have students have the ability to create their own flowcharts for various class projects. The following is a link to the flowchart I created. Frog Life Cycle.