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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:

Services:
  • bubble.us - Free tools that allows you to create concept maps online, work with others, save map as image.
  • Cacoo - Cacoo is a user friendly online drawing tool that allows you to create a variety of diagrams such as site maps, wire frames, UML and network charts. Free accounts available.
  • 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.
  • Dabbleboard - an online collaboration application that’s centered around the whiteboard. With a new type of drawing interface that's actually easy and fun to use, and lets you draw.
  • Debategraph - visualize and share networks of thought – making our reasoning transparent and open to collaborative and iterative reflection, questioning and improvement.
  • Diagram.ly - Easy to use interface, no collaboration but free.
  • Gliffy - Free for limited use, this tool can produce a variety of charts, floorplans, concept maps, and much more.
  • LucdCharts - HTML5, very clean charts, free for two users.
  • 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. You can import images and collaboration is possible. (free/paid plans)
  • 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.
  • The Brain - Downloadable software that allows you to organize your knowledge and resources; server-based version is available for collaboration.
  • 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.NO LONGER FREE.
  • 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.
The Theory Underlying Concept Maps and How to Construct and Use Them



Updated 2/2013


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