Easelly: (http://www.easel.ly/)
Easelly is an awesome Web 2.0 tool that allows users to simply and easily create web posters and infographics with multiple designs, backgrounds, and fonts of their choice. The drag and drop interface makes creating your infographic or poster easy and quick. Furthermore, saved images can be uploaded to your infographic, and the infographic can be publicly or privately shared online.
Easelly in the classroom:
Easelly has multiple classroom applications. Easelly could be used as a Web 2.0 tool for students to collaborate and work on class presentations, and it also cuts down on the environmental costs of school supply usage. Also, students working in a group could have the option to edit and work on the poster indiviually at their own convenience, because of its online nature. Furthermore, considering the digital medium through which Easelly functions, students or teachers could easily show their poster or presentation to a wide audience on an IWB or digital projector.
How could Easelly be used to reduce or eliminate barriers for certain learners:
Easelly could be used by teachers as a means to provide new and unique methods of visual representation, as is recommended by the UDL framework "providing multiple means of representation", for students who are visual learners. Furthermore, Easelly provides a new and unique way for students to express their thoughts and ideas in class projects, and may also help to spark motivation and interest for those students who suffer from motivation or attention deficit disorders.
Easelly Terms of Use:
Easelly does not stipulate any age restrictions on the use of their web service as per their terms of service agreement.
