Brainstorm tools

Online brainstorm tools

Online brainstorm and mindmapping tools will help you and members of your group to share ideas. Here are some examples of free online tools that tutors could set up and use with groups:

	Name of Tool	URL and Description
1	bubble.us	bubbl.us This is an online asynchronous collaborative mindmapping tool. Only one person can actively be writing at a time. When that person logs out another group member can have full editing access to the mindmap
2	Text2Mindmap	www.text2mindmap.com This is an online mindmap generator for individual use. You can convert the map to a .jpg file and share it with group members via email or other collaborative tools
3	Scriblink	www.scriblink.com This is an online collaborative whiteboard. Send the URL to other group members and everyone can access and edit the space simultaneously (i.e. it is synchronous). Instant messageing is also available on the page and a VOIP applet (Voice over Internet) is available for videoconferencing.
4	Skrbl	www.skrbl.com The team version is a very good collaborative whiteboard space that allows all kinds of collaborative activities including shared browsing, uploading pics etc.