Wordle - Beautiful Word Clouds
Create tag clouds from plain text or delicious bookmark tags. Includes options to change the font, layout, and colors so you can make more interesting tag clouds than the typical options.
Trendpedia - blog trend search
Graphs the number of blog posts over time which include a search term or phrase. Works even for terms with low numbers of actual posts (e.g., edupunk). You can compare the trends for up to 3 terms at a time.
Dipity
Create a timeline by adding each event manually or by adding a source (Flickr, RSS, twitter, etc.) Images, music, and video can be included in events. Related services include Tickr, which lets you create a dynamic timeline with Flickr images based on search criteria, and TimeTube, which does the same for YouTube. Some people are playing with this as a way to visualize the river of information from the Connectivism course (CCK08) this fall.
Models of Blogs: Blog as Participant in Conversation (3 of 3) on Flickr
CC-NC image of blogs as connectors of ideas in conversations.
FeedVis: top 50 edublogs
Cool way of visualizing changes in word clouds over time in 50 of the top edublogs, pulled from their RSS feeds and continuously updated.
Chartle.net - interactive charts online!
Lots of types of charts: pie, bar, line, radar, timeline, maps. Licensed CC-By so OK for pretty much any use.
Creating a Storyboard
Brief introduction to storyboarding for multimedia projects with examples of a paper storyboard and a flowchart/mindmap in PowerPoint.
Are your visuals saying what you want? Part 1 Visual Elements » VisualsSpeak blog
Part 1 of a 3-part series on visual communication, focusing on dominant lines and shapes. Even though this is specifically about images on blogs, the principles can be applied to any visual communication.
Periodic Table of Visualization Methods
Lots of different ways to visualize content and create graphics. Good place to go if stuck on how to represent something visually and create relevant graphics.
Visual literacy K-8
Free resources for teachers with information on visual literacy, focusing on visual sources of information like maps, diagrams, timelines, and storyboards
Flickr: Will Lion's Photostream
Inspiration for effective use of text with visuals to create powerful messages
Social Collider
Visualize connections in conversations on Twitter. Search for a user, tag, or trends. Tweets that generate conversation appear as spirals as they bounce around between people, so perhaps someone with lots of spirals would be someone who generates lots of conversation rather than just talking at people.
edtechpost - PLE Diagrams
Collection of diagrams showing PLEs--lots of different ideas here
Social Networks in Action - Learning Networks @ UOW
Tool to analyze forum conversations in an LMS, create network diagrams, and identify behavior patterns.
SNAPP uses information on who posted and replied to whom, and what major discussions were about, and how expansive they were, to analyse the interactions of a forum and display it in a Social Network Diagram.
3 Web-Based Tools that Generate Awesome Tag Clouds
Better than your average tag cloud--interactive, colorful, shaped like clouds, etc.
These Maps Reveal the Hidden Structures of 'Choose Your Own Adventure' Books - Atlas Obscura
Visual maps of the branching structure of Choose Your Own Adventure books