Web site: http://www.exploratree.org.uk/

Date of first review/ name of reviewer: 5/15/08 [Debra Kolah]

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Produced by:   Enquiring Minds. A three-year research and development programm which is run by Futurelab and funded by Microsoft.

Cost: Free

Description: "Exploratree is a free web resource where you can download, use and make your own interactive thinking guides. Thinking guides can support independent and group research projects with frameworks for thinking, planning and enquiry. We’ve provided a set of ready-made guides which you can print out or use online. All of the guides are completely customizable or you can start from scratch and make your own! You can share them and work on them in groups too."

Platform: web-based

License: Free

Maturity: beta

Features:

• Use ready-made thinking guides
• Make a new thinking guide from scratch
• Use it to set class projects
• Print them out (they can go as big as A0)
• Change and customise thinking guides, you can add or change text, shapes, images etc.
• As a teacher, you can set up the sequence that you want the thinking guide to be revealed in, so that you can stage the thinking activity
• You can fill in a thinking guide and complete your project on the website
• You can present your project
• You can send your thinking guide to a whole group of people
• You can submit a thinking guide for comments, so it can't be edited but just reviewed
• Work in groups on the same thinking guide

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Tutorials:

• http://www.exploratree.org.uk/movie.php

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