One of our faculty members in public health would like to find a way to have her students produce and share visual maps of public health relationships.
Anthony Helm turned me on to Gliffy http://www.gliffy.com - a tool I did not know. (*He also made some other suggestions which I'm going to check out).
What looks nice about the took is that I was able to quickly make a simple public health map in a browser (it is a flash too) - and then generate a page and get embed code. There is a cost to this (with a free trial) -but the academic pricing looks reasonable.
PS....While the embed code works here - I could not get it to work in the Blackboard Blog or Wiki. Frustrating. The work-around is to put the page url up - which works fine.
You might also try LucidChart. It's like Gliffy, but the collaboration features are much more robust, and you don't need Flash to run it.
Posted by: Ben Dilts | December 05, 2008 at 04:02 PM