GraphicOrganizers

**Web 2.0 Tools**

**Graphic Organizers**


 * [|Webspiration] - Oh my! This is a FREE tool (still in Beta) created by Inspiration. Students can create their graphic organizers at home and others can contribute to it!
 *  Bubbl.us is a simple and free web application that lets you brainstorm online.
 *  Mindmeister - online mind mapping tool. These can be exported as rich text, pdf's, or images. Another great feature is that students can collaborate with others.
 *  Mindomo - online mind mapping tool. This one also offers collaboration with peers.
 *  Mind 42 - can add sticky notes and YouTube videos to this mind map.
 * [|30 Mind Mapping Tools] is a collection of both free and for-purchase mapping tools.

**Software**
 * [|Inspiration software] from Tom Snyder Productions is a great tool. Students can add audio files and video files to their web in Inspiration. Inspiration can be used as a tool for planning, for researching, or as a final product. It has diagram views and outline views making it easy for students to turn the graphic organizer into writing.

**Word Clouds**  turns words -- famous speeches, news articles, slogans and themes, even your love letters -- into a visually stunning tag cloud, words individually sized appropriately to highlight the frequencies of occurence within the body of text. Very much like wordle, type in words, copy/paste text, enter a URL, and make a word cloud.  @http://wordle.net/  Generates “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text.Fun for kids: Guess the Wordle  @http://www.wordsift.com/visualize
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">Tagxedo <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">
 * <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: left;">Word It Out@http://worditout.com/
 * <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: left;"> <span class="wiki_link_ext">Wordle
 * <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: left;">WordSift

<span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 19.35px; text-align: left;">iPad Apps <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 19.35px; text-align: left;"> <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left;">Popplet($4.99) Capture your ideas, sort them visually, and collaborate with others in realtime. MindNode ($9.99) Collect, organize and outline your thoughts and ideas as mind maps.

SimpleMInd+ (free, $2.99 for an upgrade) Brainstorming, idea collection and thought structuring device. Idea Sketch (free, $3.99 for upgrade) Idea Sketch lets you easily draw a diagram - mind map, concept map, or flow chart - and convert it to a text outline, and vice versa. You can use Idea Sketch for anything, such as brainstorming new ideas, illustrating concepts, making lists and outlines, planning presentations, creating organizational charts, and more!