Thinking and Writing

No need to sharpen that pencil!

There are many online tools designed to help people record and produce ideas.

Mind Mapping

Graphic organizers, charts, wireframes, storyboards etc. Use for individual organization or collaborative pre-writing. Most can be shared and some charge after three creations.

Mind Meister / Mindomo / Lucid Chart / bubbl.us / ExploraTree / Popplet

Word Clouds

Paste your text (essay) into one of the following programs. It will create visual representation of the text used. The most prominent words, those used most often, will be larger than those used less frequently.

Wordle / Tagxedo / Tagul

Story Scrapbooking

Tristan Bancks' World of Creativity

Free downloadable multimedia story brainstorming app for Mac or PC.

Creative / Collaborative Writing