A resource Jo Menzies would like to share....Would be very useful for group work!

Hi
I have just been looking at an online tool from Futurelab that may have some potential. Exploratree looks like it would be good for students organising and structuring thinking on a topic. It has lots of different templates for ways to look at a topic and it allows you to save share and present your plan, create your own template as well as work collaboratively on one. Could be good for planning research presentations , essays and the like.
the site is here http://www.exploratree.org.uk/
and there is an intro video here http://www.exploratree.org.uk/movie.php
See what you think.
Some info from the site below
Jo
The Exploratree web resource has been developed by Futurelab and emerged out of our work on the Enquiring Minds project. It provides a series of ready-made interactive 'thinking guides' or 'frameworks' which can support students' projects and research. Thinking guides support the thinking or working through of an issue, topic or question and help to shape, define and focus an idea and also support the planning required to investigate it further. Exploratree guides can be used as a basis for whole class discussion, or emailed to individuals or groups to complete. They can also be used as a presentation tool to share your findings and thinking with others. As well as providing a set of ready to use thinking guides, which are completely customisable and shareable, Exploratree also enables teachers and students to create their own simply and easily.
With Exploratree you can:
Use our 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