LucidChart

=**[|**Lucid Chart**]**= A collaborative webtool that allows users to create, edit, share and organize charts, diagrams, and models.

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 * Resources**

__Strengths__ · Free for educators if you contact the company · Has a free version available for users · Easy to use · Collaborate between multiple users in real time · Compatible across different browsers · Revision history for tracking · Provides hundreds of templates · Group chat available · Allows users to create custom images · Can be saved and embedded into blogs, wikis, websites · Doesn’t require downloading software
 * SWOT Analysis**

__Weaknesses__  · Requires an account · Better features require more money (but free educational accounts available)

__Opportunities__ · Allows teachers and students to create visual representations of data · Students can publish and share what they collaborated on  · Promotes creativity

__Threats__ · Can easily be modified or deleted by any of the collaborators (threat mitigated by revision history) · Students can easily get off task

__Ideas for Classroom__ · Have students create a timeline of a specific event or topic · Use it as a form of assessment so students are able to visually demonstrate what they have learned on critical concepts · Have students create a chart of what they have learned · Student can use their images in a presentation - LucidChartt is very user friendly. The interface is intuitive and it shouldn't take students very long to catch on with using this resource. I wanted to include an example of a chart that I made for another class. It is easy to make different shapes and arrows passing from one object to another. In this example I created a flow for a physics goal in my instructional design for a lesson over quantum physics. It is easy to color code the blocks and it makes the presentation very intuitive for the reader.