I chose to look at Bubbl.us and gliffy.com. Bubbl was easy to use for an organizational chart, but lacked the templates that gliffy had. Bubbl was easier to custom create charts as gliffy had the templates and I had to delete some blocks that were not needed. I really liked gliffy because of all of the templates, it gave several options to choose from to create layout plans, Venn Diagrams and other charts as well. It does come with a free 30 day trial but after that, it has a $4.99 per month fee. I would use this site frequently when free, but may hesitate with the added fees. Please see below an organizational chart that I would personally use to create a contact list for my wrestling team. The second one is of a Venn Diagram that could be used as a discussion with students, obviously, topics can change. I liked the idea of being able to create the diagram though.
http://www.gliffy.com/pubdoc/3496730/M.png
http://www.gliffy.com/pubdoc/3496867/M.png
Daniel, I completely agree with your post. Gliffy and Bubbl.us were the two I chose as well. The Bubbl.us was my favorite of the two, plus I feel it would be the easier application for students to collaborate on.
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