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=**Organizing Tools.2.0**=

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= = ===The students of the MAET Summer Cohort of 2013 were asked to find tools that were not designed for education and repurpose them to fit inside our classroom. This website is designed to repurpose four organizational tools that could benefit our students of various grade levels. Organization can be viewed in two ways:===

1) Classwork and Life Skills
===Organization is a problem that we attempt to fix every day and every year, yet many of us have little success. A possible solution to helping students become more organized in the classroom is giving them various web tools where they can store notes, assignments, tests, and quizzes. By providing them an online mode to organize their classwork, rather then through binders and note book, we can help guarantee success within our classroom and in their lives outside of school.===

2) Graphic Organizers
===Organization in the form of graphic organizers offers an opportunity for students to visualize the relationships between main ideas and sub-topics. It can help students summarize, prioritize, share ideas and understandings about the connections between and within topics.=== ===The tools we repurpose for the educational setting are Evernote, SignupGenius, SpicyNodes, and SymbalooEDU. These tools are a few of the many tools available for educators to use to help their students become more organized. Please see the side bar to the right for a closer look at these organizational tools.===

===This embedded "SpicyNode" map is a fun, visual way to get started. Move your cursor to see how the sub-topics rotate around the main idea. Click on a web 2.0 tool to visit the website (which will open in a new window):===

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