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{{ToolInfo
|title=Cacoo - draw and collaborate
|title=Cacoo - draw and collaborate
|tagline=Draw better diagrams with the aid of clip-art stencils
|tagline=Draw better diagrams with the aid of clip-art stencils, and your peers
|image=Cacoo1.png
|image=Cacoo1.png
|description= Use a web browser to {{tag|draw}} a picture, flowchart or diagram based on a library of clip-art ‘stencils’. For example, you could use the flowchart templates to create a topic map and then share it with the rest of the class. More than a presentation tool, this also allows more than one student to work on the same diagram. A {{tag|chat}} window facilities this {{tag|collaboration}} with each other. Drawings can be exported to a file to use elsewhere or embedded in a blog page.  
|description= Use a web browser to {{tag|draw}} a picture, flowchart or diagram based on a library of clip-art ‘stencils’. For example, you could use the flowchart templates to create a topic map and then share it with the rest of the class. More than a presentation tool, this also allows more than one student to work on the same diagram. A {{tag|chat}} window facilities this {{tag|collaboration}} with each other. Drawings can be exported to a file to use elsewhere or embedded in a blog page.  

Revision as of 07:18, 7 September 2012

Cacoo1.png
Draw better diagrams with the aid of clip-art stencils, and your peers

Tool Description Use a web browser to draw(tool) a picture, flowchart or diagram based on a library of clip-art ‘stencils’. For example, you could use the flowchart templates to create a topic map and then share it with the rest of the class. More than a presentation tool, this also allows more than one student to work on the same diagram. A chat(tool) window facilities this collaboration(tool). Drawings can be exported to a file to use elsewhere or embedded in a blog page. (edit)Use a web browser to draw(i) a picture, flowchart or diagram based on a library of clip-art ‘stencils’. For example, you could use the flowchart templates to create a topic map and then share it with the rest of the class. More than a presentation tool, this also allows more than one student to work on the same diagram. A chat(i) window facilities this collaboration(i) with each other. Drawings can be exported to a file to use elsewhere or embedded in a blog page.

Teaching Approach. Drawing tools offer opportunity for higher order(ta) visualisation(ta) and collaboration(ta), as well as stimulus for whole class(ta) dialogue(ta) and questioning(ta). (edit)

Tool details
Title Cacoo - draw and collaborate
Topic [[Topics/Draw|Draw]]
Licence / Cost / Platform

Web tool

Subject / Categories ToolInfo, Draw
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