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Graphic organizers to help you brainstorm, organize, and visualize ideas. In PDF format and Teaching Notes with lessons and tips included.

Evernote is a free, downloadable, organizer tool. On the site there are stories and tips for how this tool can be used. One video talk about how students are not just reading from a book and taking notes on paper, but they are looking up more information on the web and typing notes on the computer. This organizer allows students, or others using this tool, to organize and compile their thoughts and resources. Whether they are pulling in a teachers PowerPoint, adding website that were helpful for understanding the topic, their own notes, scanned or uploaded, the students have a place where they can put everything together.

Exploratree is the brainchild of FutureLab, a UK venture. Funded by Microsoft, Futurelab worked in collaboration with students and teachers at two UK secondary schools to develop Exploratree. With Exploratree, users can create and/or modify all types of graphic organizers. Oh, and it's free too!

This is the web version of Inspiration. Think visually, work collaboratively, Webspiration™ is the new online visual thinking tool that helps you capture ideas, organize information, diagram processes, create clear, concise written documents. Publish your diagram or outline to a hosted and protected area of the Webspiration web site. Share the URL with friends or colleagues or use the code provided to embed the document in a web page, blog, or wiki.

Graphic organizers galore! Help those students with writing, problem solving, decision making, studying, planning research and brainstorming. Permission is granted to print and copy for classroom use.

LiveBinders is a free, easy-to-use tool for setting up online binders. A simple click creates a binder, and then the user can organize and store related online resources simply by pasting in the link, or by installing and using a LiveBinder button in the toolbar. LiveBinders may be made public or kept private. My mentor teacher was thrilled when I set up a LiveBinder to facilitate our students' access to ancient civilizations resources for a WebQuest.