Awarded the #1 Education Software Product of the Year by Handango! A powerful Windows-Palm OS tool that allows educators and students to create and organize the hundreds of ideas, lessons, tasks, problems, solutions, and assessment data. Use ThoughtManager to:

• Manage classroom tasks, homework records, behavior logs, parent phone calls, etc.
• Create & organize lesson plans & classroom activities using templates that are included
• Design standards-based assessments that inform instruction
• Teach students note-taking, group collaboration skills, research steps, vocabulary skills, text-book reading, hierarchical information storage (outlining), time management, & more
• Share your outlines, activities, ideas, agendas, lesson plans by beaming them, sending them via email or posting them on the web.

Education Features:

• Over 90 downloadable educational resource outlines and templates for easy reference: lesson plan templates, test-taking skills, good reader checklist, Pre- & Post-reading strategies, vocabulary lists, ESL activities, graphic organizers, and many more.
• The template feature allows you to recall the same outline, along with attached drawings, to create new outlines.
• The checklist feature adds checklist boxes to any outline, useful for assessment and task lists.

DESKTOP FEATURES:

• Create outlines on your desktop and load them onto your handheld computer at the touch of a button.
• You can download information from the internet and organize the information into outlines with headings and subheadings that drop down and close up.
• Attach images and notes to any item of an outline
• Create and modify templates that you can turn into outlines and vice versa.
• Copy and paste text from any document into outlines, or
• Directly open a Microsoft Word document to instantly create an outline
• Save an entire outline directly as a Microsoft Word document in one step.
• Save and open separate outlines as Palm (.pdb) files to store, email, change, etc. Just copy info, paste it into a new outline in the ThoughtManager desktop.

Other Features:

• Sort outlines by category, date created, date modified, alphabetically, or manually by dragging and dropping
• Easy drag & drop outlining to organize your thoughts fast
• Multiple file folders in which to organize and store different kinds of outlines Duplicate an item and all of its sub-categories; store items in the on-screen folder for use in other outlines
• Beam outlines to other teachers and students Keyboard support
• Temporarily show or hide checked items with one command

Outlines Included: Degree Requirements, Thesis Checklist, Lesson Plan Template, Mini-lesson Format & Ideas, BEFORE Reading Activities, DURING Reading Activities, AFTER Reading Activities, Controversial Topics, Cooperative Groupwork Ideas, Early Literacy Checklist, Good Reader Checklist, Graphic Organizers, Higher-Order Thinking Skills, Lesson Plan Creating, Creating Study Guides, Vocabulary Development, Writing Ideas & Topics, Questions of the Day, High School Exit Exam Standards, Creating Student Files, Master Student List, Developing Standards-Based Curriculum, Writing Process Assessment, Writing Rubric, Homework Checklist Template, Reading Assessment Checklist, Designing Performance Tasks, Rubric for Narratives, Sight Word Checklist, Group Reading Inventory, Portfolio Essentials, SDAIE Strategies, Second Language Teaching Tips, Multicultural Curriculum Ideas, Multiple Intelligence Theory, Language Experience Approach, ESL Reading, ESL Curriculum Ideas, Spanish Tutorial, Administrator Resources, Test-taking Skills, Textbook Reading Strategies, Research Paper Tips, Research Paper Template, Student Data Calendar 2002-3, Punctuation Tips, Web Sites for Teachers, Word Problem Solving Strategy, How to Create Student Files, How to Summarize, Teacher Evaluation Forms, Tips for Presenting Workshops The Writing Process