Excellent ideas for mind mapping and brainstorming digitally. Several of the resources are for the iPad or iPhone I have used Popplet and Wallwisher several times in my classroom and both resources are popular with my students.

A collaborative online tool where students can create and personalize concept maps. Students can even web images related to those concepts.

A neat site that sends you a daily email reminding you to write about your life that day.

I am an avid Wordle user. This site lists a variety of ways to use word clouds to enhance learning in any subject area.

This is a great idea for helping those students who struggle with writing because they can't think of what to write. In addition, the connective words (i.e. first, then, next) provided in the writing frames help students understand how to use words to transition from one idea to the next. The article provides the steps to create a writing frame as well as elementary and secondary examples of opinion writing frames and compare-contrast writing frames.

A great article focusing on two W2L strategies - admit and exit slips. Great advice and ideas from teacher who regularly use admit and exit slips in their classes.