Information Organization

Inspiration and Kidspiration from Inspiration are great programs that help students organize information. It includes a lot of templates to get you started. 30 day trials.

Ovation Outliner ( Win ) from Thinker Tools is a basic outlining program. 30 day trial.

ScreenPlay Outliner ( Win ) from Kitchona is a screen writing program. 30 day trial.

OmniOutliner ( MacX ) from OmniGroup is, to me, an incredible outlining program. Each level can include columns. Free version limited to 20 levels.

ADM, on Xtras CD, from ADM is a knowledge management program. 30 day trial.

Post It Notes Lite ( Win ) from 3M is a free electronic post it note program. Commercial version with more features are available.

 

Resources

Multiphasic Reading is a strategy for highlighting text. It is easy and fun This tutorial is my version of the strategy. pdf file.

Computer Based Strategies is an excellent source of strategies for organizing information and using programs like Inspiration. Great downloads. Internet.

Purple People is an article by John Tenny explaining the need for tools to help people with learning disabilities organize text.