Gliffy


 * __Gliffy. __**

Gliffy is Web 2.0 application tool that makes it easy for the user to create, share, and collaborate with diagrams. It can be used on Mac, PC, and Linux systems. It works through your web browser, so there is nothing to install or maintain. How does Gliffy work? **  To be able to use Gliffy, create an account [|here]
 * What is it? **
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Gliffy can be used to make very simple to very complex technical drawings. The following are some of the features;
 * The program offers many images and shapes to drag and drop into your drawings.

 Watch a demo to show how to use [|Gliffy_2].
 * Gliffy drawings are easily emailed and or embedded into the video.
 * T he student can produce and submit his or her work from any computer with Internet access.
 * Gliffy allows the user to tie-in to Yahoo images. The student can do a quick image search and add the picture into his or her document.


 * What is the application of Gliffy for educators? **

Visual learners will use Gliffy to draw a pictorial outline before writing an essay or giving a presentation. Compared to the drawing and graphing features in most presentation programs, Gliffy is an easier way to create graphs and drawings for use in presentations.  Watch application of <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">[|Gliffy_3].

<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> Lesson objectives <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> Lesson development
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Lesson **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Students will identify tessellations of regular polygons.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Classify and identify monohedral, regular, and semiregular tessellations.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Explore tessellations with regular polygons.

<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> Lesson closure
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Students will be organized in groups of five. Each group will identify 3 regular polygons that they will download for their class activity.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Students will explore tessellation using the regular polygons.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Each group will use tessellation to produce artistic work using the regular polygon.


 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Each group will search for meaning of today’s vocabulary.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Groups will pair up to critic each others' work.