Supported by excellent documentation, PicturePoint is also packed with a host of example files as well as being able to create your own. Topic files include Eye Colour, Music, Shapes, School Dinners, Pets, Sports, Rubbish, Family, Colours, Homes, Weather, Dice, Footwear and Journeys.
Next is Pictooram by Kudlian. In Pictogram, pictures are dragged and dropped from the picture bank on to the stack. This may be a bit trickyfor children with poor mouse skills; but one of the four animated characters - parrot, genie, robot and wizard - can help them. Data can be displayed vertically or horizontally as pictograms, a block graph or the more familiar bar chart. The software has a useful scaling feature where a single picture can be used to represent a quantity greater than one. A wide variety of picture sets are available, including pets, mini-beasts, transport, houses, eye colours and hair colours. Users can also create their own picture groups and import their own pictures. All the graphs can be exported or copied to the clipboard for use in other applications.
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