Graphic Organizers

Surely you have seen many graphic organizers, and it is very probable that you have done
many graphic organizers without realizing it.

A graphic is something like a picture or drawing that we use to illustrate an idea, well then
a graphic organizer is a display where you can see a bunch of ideas represented.
Summarizing this, we can say “graphic organizers are visual displays, which help us to
show complex ideas in a simplified way.”

Why people use graphic organizers, well we use graphic organizers because it is more
useful for several students who have difficulties with the comprehension of a huge amount
of information, to visualize it, like in a picture, numerous times it happens that we have a
huge amount of information that we need to categorize in order to untangle the confusion in
our head, then is when little by little we start to mapping it, seen the parts and finding the
connection of them with the main topic, and then tadaaa!! We are enlightened, and hear the
cling of the twenty falling.

Graphic organizers so useful that not only teachers and students use them, many companies
of all sorts use them all the time, for example in an airport you can see your flight number
and if it is on time, in which room you have to wait, in which gate you will depart; if you
are visiting the zoo, there are graphic organizers that tells you where you can find your
favorite animal, to which environment it belongs, what kind of food it eats, and all the
information you need you know about it; if you are visiting a large company you might see
hanging on the wall a graphic organizer telling you who is the manager in charge, and all of
his staff who are there to thank you for your visit and help you with any issue. See there are
graphic organizers in many places, even in your house surely you have done some to
remind you your pendant chores, plan your vacation or your expenses.

Graphic organizers are a super helpful and interesting tool and you can choose among a
great diversity of them you can make a Circle Map, Spider Map, Idea Wheel, Concept
Wheel, Concept Map, Venn Diagram, Tree Chart, Organizational Chart, Sequence Of
Events, Cause And Effect Map, Brace Map, Analogy Graphic, T-Chart, Timeline Chart,
Storyboard, and many others, imagination is limitless.

Depending on your purpose you can choose the most appropriate graphic organizer for you,
the goal is that you make your ideas reachable for your public or if you are a student and
you want to improve your grades and impress you teacher using a great studying technique,
grab the graphic organizer you like the most.

Whether you want to go straight to the point with your clients or you want to avoid all that
extra text in your heavy books graphic organizers are a good solution, you can categorize
the information in many ways: sequential, hierarchical, conceptual, or cyclical, you can
focus on one single area or make it more general to have the whole picture of the topic, it is
up to you.