Critical Thinking Tools
Analysis 
  • ​Dotstorming - Create an online bulletin board for real-time group brainstorming and decision making.
  • ​Infogr.am (Limited free account) - This is an online tool for creating interactive charts, graphs, and posters. 
  • Tricider - Use this tool for crowdsourcing, idea generation, and decision making.
Graphic Organizers
  • Cacoo - Create a variety of diagrams in real-time collaboration. You get six sheets with unlimited users in the free version.
  • Coggle - This mind-mapping tool can be used by an individual or shared with friends and colleagues for collaborative work. Images can be added from your desktop by dragging and dropping them into Coggle. Use the diagram history to see who made changes and when to a collaborative diagram.
  • Lucid Chart (Limited free account) - Lucid Chart is a visual collaboration tool that promotes and supports organized thinking enhanced by teamwork. It provides an easy way to draw flowcharts, mind maps and more with built-in templates and examples for ease of use.
Tag Clouds
  • Tagxedo - Turn text into a word cloud with individual words sized and weighted based on the frequency of occurrence within the body of text. You can modify font, theme, color and shape.
  • WordClouds - Easily create word clouds and edit size, font, shape, colors. Note: Duplicate word forms aren't automatically weighted by size alone, so you may end up with repeats.
  • Wordle - Create word clouds by entering or copying/pasting your own text. Word frequency is shown by text size and weight in resulting graphic. Wordle does not offer custom shapes, but try the "Randomize" button to remake word cloud style with one click.
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