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"Chartophiles and students, have you heard that Google has made it incredibly easy to generate your own slick-looking charts? It's true, and all it takes to make one is the ability to read and edit a URL. This has made it possible to get creative with charts and wow the audience for your next classroom presentation. Read on to see what's been done, and how you can easily do it yourself."

Not your typical KWL chart.  But a KWHL chart.

"Here's a collection of terrific social media infographics that might come in handy. As you probably know, infographics are visual representations of information, data, or knowledge. They illustrate information that would be unwieldy in text form and they act as a kind of visual shorthand, making information easy to understand and consume. They are driven by the same information as charts, but they're often a better form of communication because of their pleasant aesthetics - charts and graphs can communicate data, but infographics turn data into information."

Excellent chart design tool for any classroom or office

Nice skill chart via Edutopia on technology skills and when they should either be Introduced, Developed, Applied.  The chart is for K-6 grade students. 

Nice flowchart of questions to ask in determining if an image can be used legally.

"Can I Go to the Bathroom? by Ginger lewman A comparison of the same question/response from inside a traditional and a democratically-guided Project Based Learning classroom environment. This flowchart is a complete illustration of what most great teachers consider - all in about .5 seconds - when a student of any age asks them if they can have permission go to the bathroom. I read through the chart and agreed, through my own 19-ish years experience as a teacher, that this is exactly the truth. "

"Easiest way to make interactive infographics"

" * Get students to see data represented in graphs often. * Present survey information in various graph forms and discuss what it shows. * Find Examples from the AIMs and SAT9 that use graphs and charts and create them in Excel and display them for the class to see and discuss."