Graphic Organizers: Web Tools and Resources

"An idea, like a ghost, must be spoken to a little before it will explain itself." - Charles Dickens

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Learning can often feel like a tedious cognitive process for learners. Graphic organizers help learners categorize and organize their thoughts and ideas! Moreover, learners can make connections to previous knowledge and expand on what they already know. This means the brain will process the new information into long-term memory. I integrate organizers regularly into my lessons as a pre-task, post task, to spark creativity, or to support learners' literacy skills. Below is a list of resources along with the slideshow free to download.

Enhance Writing with Graphic Organizers from Shelly Sanchez Terrell

Storyboarding

Storyboards are useful when integrating multimedia projects such as making movies and various digital storytelling projects. These are some of my favorite storyboarding templates and resources:

• My storyboard template for creating a movie.
• Bernajean Porter has great templates to download.
• Kevin Hodgson has some storyboards I've used with 4 to 6 year-olds and are suitable for many ages.
• Here's a free storyboarding web tool with a library of characters.
• Try using Buncee, Comics Head, or another comic creation tool to create a storyboard. Students fill in the frames and have access to a library of free characters, scenes, backgrounds, and captions.

Graphic Organizers

• Makebeliefscomix.com 350+ Free Printables Graphic organizers as writing prompts
• Read Write Think's Interactive Cube for writing mysteries, biographies, and other stories
• Lucid Chart is a fantastic tool for web and mobile graphic organizers! Students can collaborate and they have many options. 
• Teachnology has many kid friendly graphic organizers. You can use free apps like Educreations to have students fill them out on their mobile devices
• Creat.ly provides various templates and types of graphic organizers for different kinds of projects.
• Grafio Lite- iOS app for creating flow charts and visually organizing ideas. 
• Popplet web/IOS App- The browser base app provides collaborative mindmapping. Students can support text with images from Flickr or Youtube videos. They can upload their own. Embeddable.
• EduCreations iPad app- Interactive whiteboard and screen recording app. Ability to include images taken and from the web and narrate with audio. Creates a video that can be embedded. Students can record their brainstorming while creating their mindmaps.
• ShowMe iPad app- Interactive whiteboard and screen recording app. Ability to include images and narrate with audio. Creates a video that can be embedded. Students can record their brainstorming while creating their mindmaps.
• Screen Chomp iPad app- Interactive whiteboard and screen recording app. Ability to include images and narrate with audio. Creates a video to download. Students can record their brainstorming while creating their mindmaps.

Bookmarks

Find the tools listed above and many more resources in the bookmarks below.

Graphic/ Writing Organizers, by shellyterrell