10 Sites for Creating Graphic Organizers

"A graphic organizer, also known as knowledge map, concept map, story map, cognitive organizer, advance organizer, or concept diagram, is a communication tool that uses visual symbols to express knowledge, concepts, thoughts, or ideas, and the relationships between them.^[1] The main purpose of a graphic organizer is to provide a visual aid to facilitate learning and instruction.<sup>[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphic_organizer"  

Graphic Organizers are used daily in education for any curriculum to help teach any subject (i.e. mind maps, brainstorms, etc.)   Being a great learning tool for visual learners, websites have made it easy to make beautiful looking graphic organizers.


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10 Sites for Creating Graphic Organizers

1. Exploratree - A great visual site for creating a mind map w/ lots of templates.
2. Mind42 - Nice collaborative mind mapping site w/ lots of templates and easy to use.
3. MindMeister - Beautiful looking mind mapping site w/ the ability to embed into a site or blog.
4. MindMup - A easy to use site for creating brainstorms or mind maps.
5. Mindomo - One of my favorite brainstorming apps that also lets a user flip their classroom, collaborate, comment, and much more.
6. Popplet - A excellent app that allows students to think and learn visually by brainstorming and mind mapping.
7. Storyboard That - A excellent site w/ educational portal that educators are using in a variety ways, such as creating timelines, storyboards, graphic organizers (t-charts, grids, etc.), and more.
8. TotSplash - A fun site for creating and organizing ideas into a brainstorm or mind map.
9. Webspiration Classroom - From the creators of Inspiration a very popular web based program for creating visual brainstorms that can then be turned into an outline w/ a click of a button. 
10. WiseMapping - a great site for creating visual mind maps and brainstorms.