Making Progress

I am making progress with my living room learning lab and my wall of dissertation data posters. In an attempt to take some of the data and use technology so I can view it and move it around to come up with summaries and categories, I tried using Note.ly (www.note.ly#). I believe they have a sister product called Easel.ly, which I have used in the classroom with my students to create infographics. The address for my site is. I don't have a lot of time to fool around with this tool at the moment, but from what I found, it seems like you can only have one "wall." This doesn't particularly serve my purpose as I need about 10 "walls" for different coding areas, but I tried it out anyway. Although not exactly a concept mapping tool, this helped me make post-its for various themes I found and then I was able to move them in groups virtually to try to make sense of it all and come up with a summary overview. I imagine students who are visual learners and those who love post-its can use something like this for brainstorming and organizing their ideas, which can move around pretty quickly to become groupings.