Digital Diagram

My digital diagram in the process of being created.

This week in class we spent a lot of time learning and creating digital diagrams. I am in the process of creating one about land biomes. I had no idea that such a tool existed, but I love it! My favorite thing about this tool is how easy it is to use. Most tools that we are having to learn, such as flipcharts, are so difficult, but nope, not this one. This has been something fun to get to explore and mess around with because it allows you to get very creative with it. It gives you the options to decide everything from the shape of the bubbles you want, the type of line you want (dotted, thick straight, right angled, etc), pictures, colors, and so much more! This will be something I will definitely use in my classroom. It can be used for younger grades by you creating it for your class and handing it out to them for the students to be able to look it at. Also, if the technology is available, you can allow your students to create them as an assignment for a topic. The only thing about that is I would make sure to be very specific with my instructions and have a very specific rubric so the students would know exactly what to do and not get carried away with it. There isn't really anything that I dislike about this tool, except maybe the simple fact that it costs money to have the software.