My students have used the free online versions, piktochart.com and easel.ly.com. This year my school purchased a pro classroom account for me from easel.ly.com. I love the templates and the ease of use for students.

I love the creativity and knowledge students learn by researching and creating infographics.

“Google Citations” isn’t really a thing. You can do works cited/bibliography by pulling it from the Explore tool and from Google Scholar. Thanks Anna … glad you liked it!

Wow, Heidi. Looks like something touched a nerve here. OK, a couple of thoughts …
— A “Google paper” isn’t really a thing. What I’m suggesting here is using Google tools to streamline the writing process.
— How students write their papers determines how they “hold up in Turn It In.” Again, gather ideas instead of copy facts.
— Universities aren’t the end all be all of education. Just because higher education engages in certain practices (some of questionable pedagogical value) doesn’t mean that we have to adopt poor instructional strategies for the sake of getting kids “ready for college.” If we help students become savvy information gatherers, critical thinkers and problem solvers, I’m convinced that they’ll be able to work their way through lectures, long textbook readings and 10 research papers.
— Let’s not paint ALL students with such broad strokes. SOME students copy and paste and don’t gather ideas. (And SOME students do that because they don’t see the value in certain assignments nor the connection to their lives or “real life.” Another reason to ditch some — if not all — research papers …)