TOP TOOLS
Quintura

Quintura is a visual search engine.  You enter your search query. Once the query is processed, words contextually related to your query are displayed on the left pane of the Quintura window. This is your Quintura cloud or visual map.  Use your mouse to navigate your Quintura cloud.  Note: You can also add a toolbar to Internet Explorer or Firefox.
 

Website	www.quintura.com
Cost	Free
Availability	Online
2007 ranking	101=
2008 (Spring) ranking	Not ranked

Comments from those who selected Quintura as one of their Top 10 Tools in 2007

• "searching results are shown in clouds; great visuals for kids"  Cheri Toledo
• "(for visual search), and other tools that visualize information and reveal connections not directly visible. I’m convinced that as information continues to grow in abundance, we will shift the “grunt cognition” of filtering and presenting patterns to software, so we can retain our sanity and interact with patterns instead of individual information elements."  George Siemens

Directory of Learning Tools

• Mindmapping and brainstorming tools