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ICT in education: Charts

Try some of the Web 2.0 tools featured in this guide

Charts and Diagrams

  • Gliffy: Gliffy makes it easy to lay out ideas in flow charts and diagrams or to create floor plans and technical drawings to help you better visually understand information. Gliffy basic is free for students.
  • FlowChart: Create great flow charts for your classes using this online tool, which comes complete with drawing tools and objects as well as collaborative tools.
  • DrawAnywhere: This online program allows you to create diagrams and flow charts to represent all kinds of information. Best of all, you can log in from anywhere to get access to your diagrams.Free registration.
  • AjaxSketch: This web-based drawing tool makes it easy to not only create flow charts and diagrams but to do freehand drawing as well and you can use it right from Firefox. Free but requires Firefox.
  • XML/SWF Charts: "XML/SWF Charts is a simple, yet powerful tool to create attractive charts and graphs from dynamic XML data." XML/SWF Charts is free to download and use.
  • yEd: yEd is a very powerful graph editor that is written entirely in the Java programming language. It can be used to quickly and effectively generate drawings and to apply automatic layouts to a range of different diagrams and networks.yEd is available as a free download with unrestricted functionality!
  • Graphviz: If you’ve got a lot of information about the structure of a website or anything else for that matter, this tool can help you to easy map it out into a graph or network.
  • Kivio: Kivio is an easy to use diagramming and flowcharting application with tight integration to the other KOffice applications. It enables you to create network diagrams, organisation charts, flowcharts and more.
  • Project Draw: This program is a feature-rich web-based vector drawing application that will allow you to create diagrams and graphs of any kind of information as well as making a variety of other kinds of drawings.
  • Best 4C: Best4c (Best for chart) is a Web-based, online diagram tool that allows you to create, edit and share charts anytime, anywhere. Export your diagram as a PDF or PNG format,and paste to word,excel,powerpoint.
  • LovelyCharts: Charts created through this tool really can be lovely with full color capabilities and loads of graphics.