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This Week's App: Honorable Mentions

In this episode, we decided to discuss two smaller apps. Now, small is not a bad thing: they just don't have user management, grading features, or sixteen other premium options.

Both AutoDraw and WordClouds.com are single-purpose tools. You can't create interactive presentations out of them or poll the class with them; you can't manage six classrooms of 100 students. They're straight forward, and that's part of what makes them so effective.


AutoDraw

The AutoDraw website helps you create beautiful and clean imagery for any purpose. You can assign it to your students to use or create all of the stock imagery you need for slideshows through it. If you have a mobile, touch-based device, or if you're on a computer with a mouse, just click and draw. If you try a triangle, it will give you the closest shape to what you originally drew. If you do a triangle with some lines, it will offer a pyramid or pyramid chart. Keep testing until you get the best image for what you want to accomplish.

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WordClouds.com

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You've seen word clouds. It's a big jumble of words in a bubble or circle or any other shape you can think of. Functionally, you put any body of text into a generator and it creates a cloud of words that are different sizes based on the frequency that the word was used in the body of text. Instead of having to manually create the cloud, WordClouds.com lets you paste your text in and hit "generate!" It's that easy.

These clouds can be helpful for reflection, they can be helpful to make a point, or they could be a tool for you and your students to use in generating presentation content. Whatever your purpose, head over and try it out for free.


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