I am now exploring Gliffy communication technology. Gliffy is an organizational creation site that allows you to create organizational charts, Venn diagrams, flow charts or floor plans and share them on the internet or to emails. It can be very handy for business or education where organizational information needs to be shared to a mass audience. There are a couple of tips you need to know if you attempt to do an organizational chart like I did. The first tip is that if you need to duplicate a particular text make sure you have the original text the way you want it that way you will save time by not having to alter your duplication. Also, pay close attention to your use of copy and paste. If you use the shortcut ctrl C and V your image may past in a far away location. I had a lot of trouble with that and had to paste part of the line, image or text piece by piece in order to finalize my chart.
My organizational chart is the ranking system of an ancient Roman military force. Much of there titles of rank are used by our military institutions today, such as Leutinant or Captain. Here are some pictures of what ancient Roman soldiers may have looked like and their symbols. I hope these images give you a better connection to my chart.
Ancient Roman Military Rank
http://www.gliffy.com/pubdoc/2504641/L.png
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I looked at this site as well. I thought it looked a little difficult to use and couldn't quite determine how I would use it as a teacher. It seems though that it worked really well for communicating military rank of the ancient Romans? Now I see where this application would be useful! Thank you for sharing!
ReplyDeleteI really liked the organizational chart. I couldn't think of anything at all to do with one of those charts but I thought that was really unique. The pictures did help too by the way.
ReplyDeleteIt's easy to understand how much you love history. Your organizational chart made it easy to understand the rankings of the various officers and soldiers. This tool would be useful for older students (high school)to better understand organizational systems and hierarchy.
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