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"Graphic organizers have become a valuable tool for helping students learn to analyze and process information. The visual format makes organizing, interpreting and understanding new material quicker and more successful than simple memorization alone. The graphic organizers on our site were selected for their value and broad appeal to many different educational situations. " Offers a number of visual organizers created in PDF format to download. You don't load in any data online, but they look like a help for organizing student projects

"Now that we are using the Internet in the classroom to support instruction, it is important the area of assessment be addressed. One usable method for teachers is to provide a rubric for student use and for both formative and summative assessment purposes. Another is to provide some type of graphic organizer. Below you will find a collection of assessment rubrics and graphic organizers that may be helpful to you as you design your own."

"Paper versions of graphic organizers can do a nice job of that. But by making them digital in Google Apps, they instantly become customizable. Multiple people can collaborate on them in real time. They can be shared with a link, embedded in a website or downloaded as an image file."

"We offer a collection of pre-formatted graphic organizers that you can integrate into activities and lesson plans or use by themselves. We offer three different formats for your convenience:" in html, pdf, Ms Word. Nice downloadables to brainstorm various types of writing activities.

These include tried and true strategies to spark discussion, such as sentence starters and provocative debate ideas, but also colorful charts that can be used as graphic organizers on the wall of your classroom.

"The Frayer Model is a strategy that uses a graphic organizer for vocabulary building. This technique requires students to (1) define the target vocabulary words or concepts, and (2) apply this information by generating examples and non-examples. This information is placed on a chart that is divided into four sections to provide a visual representation for students."

Make a video with one of the 3 editors suggested; create a collage importing pictures from your device; create a slideshow with Google Drive; use Silk to create a portfolio that includes docs, video, graphics, and links; invite relatives to virutally attend a graduation ceremony with Skype or Google+. The blog also mentions several other tools for creation and collaboration.

"...professional iPad interactive whiteboard and screencast recorder with sophisticated tools for hand-drawn graphics and remote desktop control." "You can create your own slides with the variety of tools available. More importantly, you can capture the screen shot and make notations directly on it." "Doceri is certainly a whiteboard app - and a great one. But it also allows you to control and use your pc apps remotely. So your presentation can consist of a pc app and then switch to a whiteboard display, all from your iPad." This seems like a great app for creating presentations while also controlling a smartboard and your computer from your iPad.

"Knowmia Teach http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/teach/id527216211?mt=8 Free; Designed specifically for teachers; Integrates directly into Knowmia.com (publish a lesson with the push of a single button); Organize lessons with steps/slides; Draw using shapes, multiple pens (with your finger), text tools, laser pointer and much more; Animate graphic elements on the screen by using two fingers (moving, scaling and rotating them); Integrate videos as part of a lesson (coming soon); The only iPad tool to allow face recording while capturing a lesson (coming soon); Imports images, drawings, and Adobe Acrobat files (coming soon); Integrates with Dropbox, Google Drive, Box.net and Gmail for transferring files (coming soon)" $2.99 Great tool for the iPad; see more info at the iTunes store.

Although this is just a lead-in to the Edudemic Magazine iPad app (free to subscribers), this blog article has the short list in its graphic. Take a look for some ideas on how to use the iPad to "consume, collaborate, and produce."

"I'm trying to capture rethinking about education or formal learning. I'm tired of anything that allows folks to think knowledge dump and test is going to lead to meaningful change. I'm also trying to 'think out loud' for myself. And start getting more concrete about learning experience design." This thoughtful blog is accompanied by a very useful graphic display of how content, activities, evaluation, etc. feed into each other.

Worksheets for a variety of academic essay types as well as graphic organizers to help with pre-writing, and some short elementary writing activities. Recommended by Nancy Overman.

A great way to choose and create custom colors for your website or illustrations.Students could use this with Graphic Converter or other drawing program to create or touch up images.

Fun and easy for students to make a wide variety of posters. Have them use it to advertise their projects, or to make signs on how to use various tools for their lab walls. Free and downloadable as .pdf. With graphics software and a large-size printer, much larger posters could be made.

Vance Stevens' course for the Petroleum Institute is filled with useful graphics and how-to information. Designed for EFL students, this is a great way to get your own course going, or it can be used as supplemental material.

I usually don't like lists, but this one also has suggestions for using the apps with students. Info on the Wallwisher update, Padlet; infographics made easy; Thinglink for graphics; Aurasma for creating QR codes with objects, rthaer than a square, and so on.

"AXMA Story Maker is a tool for creating interactive stories where parts of the story (called passages) are represented as blocks and links between passages are shown as lines connecting the blocks. Passages that contain broken links are highlighted and can be easily indentified. " Download. Uses an "intuitive graphic" interface to create an interactive story. Might be useful for students. You can also publish completed stories to the online user library.

"Well, it's official, you can now officially cite social media sources in MLA and APA formats. Although this might not seem like a big deal, it is an important step in acknowledging social media as an important source of information for scholarly work. Of course, it warrants a discussion with students about when to cite tweets. For example, citing a person's opinion in a paper is important, but citing a person's tweet as a factual basis for an argument doesn't hold up nearly as well!" You can copy, download, and share this information, which is laid out in a graphic.

"The handy infographic below takes a look at the BELS process - Brain Essential Learning Steps. In other words, how does the brain process information in the learning process? The graphic breaks it down in terms of how to teach the material, making this a super useful reminder for teachers planning their lessons. Keep reading to learn more." The 4 Steps: Introducing material, collaborative brainstorming, students develop a learning plan, and then "take action," through writing, music, visuals, etc., and share.

" Finally, a presentation tool that incorporates an intuitive user interface, super cool comic graphics, is 200% less frustrating than Prezi, and offers a zillion more options than the free version of GoAnimate. I know we just met, PowToon, but I think I am in love." This from a teacher, A. Gibson, who has used the tool. I hesitate to recommend one more presentation tool, but this looks interesting. "