Concept mapping tools allow you to visually illustrate the relationship between ideas, resources, people, or images. Like Inspiration™, Web-based tools use links, arrows, and comments to illustrate relationships.

Learning Applications: Represent, organize information, present information

Instructor Applications: Communicate, model, represent information

Examples:

• Chemistry Proposition (PPT)

• Various disciplinary examples from SMART™
• Concept Map Various [biology] Examples from Johnson Leung
• Hodges' Knowledge Domains Model

Services:

• bubble.us - Free tools that allows you to create concept maps online, work with others, save map as image.
• CMAP - this free software must be installed on your hard drive, but can be easily shared online. Similar to Inspiration™ this tool produces very professional graphics.
• Gliffy - Free for limited use, this tool can produce a variety of charts, floorplans, concept maps, and much more.
• Mind42 - Free, easy to use concept map collaboration online.
• Mindomo - A Web-based mind mapping tool, delivering the capabilities of desktop mind mapping software in a Web browser - with no complex software to install or maintain.
• MindMeister - Another free, user-friendly concept mapping application with assorted collaboration tools included.
• SlickPlan - a free web-based sitemap/flowchart generator that allows for the creation of free sitemap and flowchart design.
• Webspiration - An online visual thinking tool that helps you capture ideas, organize information, diagram processes and create clear, concise written documents whether working individually or collaboratively. With integrated diagram and outline views you can think visually, structure your work effectively and express your ideas in the ways that communicate best.
• Wordle - is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes.
• XMind - Downloadable brainstorming software that can be shared collaboratively online.
  

Successful Practices:

References:
A Periodic Table of Visualization Methods - Produced by Visual-Literacy.Org this table illustrates methods for representing data, information, strategy, metaphor, compound and much more.
Kinds of Concept Maps-