Create an online Mind Map with DropMind

DropMind is an excellent mind mapping program that is available both as a desktop installation and as a web-based application.  The interface is well designed and offers teachers and students the ability to create simple or complex graphic maps with lots of customisable options.  Access Dropmind here

If you’ve ever made a list, torn a page from a magazine or bookmarked a Web page “for future reference,” Ript is the tool for you. It puts the “fun” back in functionality, so you can get more done, in less time… with less stress.

Rip just about anything.

Part scrapbook, part “to-do” list (or to-buy list), Ript mimics the actions of ripping, piling and arranging scraps of information. If you can see it on your computer, you can “rip” it. Simply drag and drop images and text from the internet or your computer and arrange them however you please — making it easy to compile, print and share your handiwork.  It's free of course and is available here.

Create Timelines Online

Timetoast allows people to create interactive timelines, which they can share anywhere on the web. Anyone can join Timetoast and start creating and sharing their own timelines in minutes, all they need is a valid email address. It's completely free!

For the first time you can actually embed a timeline into a blog which is great which I have done below.  It is not visually amazing but ceratinly does the job.

Both student and teacher will find a purpose for this in their classroom.  I highly recommend checking it out here

Convert your words into diagrams in seconds

Diagrammr is an unusual tool that still serves a common purpose.  I am sure you have scribbled something on the back of a napkin or a coaster trying to explain something using arrows, boxes and words in a bar late at night.

Well Diagrammr does exactly this by you simply entering steps of a procedure as text and it magically appears as a workable diagram.

The diagrams are very simple simple but is the idea.  You can embed, print or hyperlink to your diagram once completed.  Once again it seems a little strange but so was Wordle at first.  I will continue to play with this a little further and find out what else it has to offer.  It is totally free and does not require any sign up or messing around to get into it.  Check it out here.