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Up Too Late Blogging About Mural.ly

By Mrsebiology @mrsebiology
I've been working on a series of professional development meetings regarding creating student learning targets.  Because I firmly believe in modeling appropriate technology use, I created a review of our first session using a free tool (there is a paid version) called Mural.ly, which is a neat and easy-to-use online poster and infographic maker.  You can check it out below. The drag-and-drop interface makes this tool incredibly easy to master; I learned how to use it today in about 5 minutes.  You can scroll and zoom freely around your canvas, and you can add text, sticky notes shapes, pictures, and change the backgrounds to various patterns.  What's even better is the fact that you can pull items from your Google Drive, Evernote, or the web onto your canvas as well.  You can easily share your canvas with others by sending them a link or by (obviously) embedding it onto a website or blog.  There are also collaboration features available where you can invite others into your canvas.  
I think this is a fantastic tool for students to use to create and publish their work, perhaps to show synthesis of ideas at the end of some extended research (infographics).  I can also see teachers using this tool to post lessons, resources, or other neat stuff on their websites for students.  
Or I can see administrators using it for professional development and then blogging about it on their blog well past their bedtimes.

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