Online Outliners & Outliners & Graphic Thought Mindmapping Tools Organizers • Tools to introduce concepts of structured thinking • Tools to use for outlining and writing support • Most free, best fee PF Anderson, Emerging Technologies Librarian, Health Sciences Libraries, [email protected] © 2008 Regents of the University of Michigan. All rights reserved.

Outliners: Persuasion Map Outliners: Persuasion Map

• http://www.readwritethink.org/materials/ • Advance persuasion_map/ organizer • Reminders of process and place in process

Outliners: LooseStitch Outliners: LooseStitch

• http://loosestitch.com/

1 Outliners: ThinkFold Outliners: Scrivener

• Collaborative • Professonal writers tool, $$ • Good for teamwork • Web-based

Outliners Flowcharts

• How to: Persuasion Map • DrawAnywhere • Web-based, personal use: LooseStitch, • Gliffy “publishable” • Flowchart • Web-based, team use: ThinkFold

Flowcharts: DrawAnywhere Flowcharts: Gliffy

2 Flowcharts: Flowchart.com Flowcharts: Flowchart.com

Flowcharts: Flowchart.com Flowcharts: Flowchart.com

Graphic Thought Organizers Graphic Organizers: Boolify

• Expand on idea of outliners • http://boolify.org/ • More visual • Transition between outlines and mindmapping

3 Graphic Thought Organizers: Graphic Thought Organizers: Lexicon VUE

• Lexicon - Interactive Graphic • http://vue.uit.tufts.edu/index.cfm Organizers Sampler: http://www.workingsimulations.co m/graphic_organizer.html

Mindmapping & Concept Mindmaps: WikiMindMap Mapping • Mindmapping as a way of thinking • http://www.wikimindmap.org • Simple tools • Collaboration - online, shareable, teamwork • Downloads

Mindmaps: Text2MindMap Mindmaps: Bubbl.us

• http://www.text2mindmap.com

4 Mindmaps: Mind42 Mindmaps: Mindmeister

Mindmaps: Mindmeister Mindmaps: Mindmeister

• Editing view • Exports to a variety of formats • Team editing

Mindmaps: Cmap Mindmaps: FreeMind

• Cmap (Download): http://cmap.ihmc.us/ • FreeMind (Download, Java): http://cmap.ihmc.us/download/ http://freemind.sourceforge.net/wiki/inde x.php/Main_Page

5 Mindmaps: FreeMind Mindmaps: FreeMind

• FreeMind: screenshot - computer • FreeMind: screenshot - German knowledge language

Mindmapping for Mindmapping - Highlights Macintoshes: Mindnode

• What is mindmapping illustration: • http://www.mindnode.com/ WikiMindMap • Simple, online shareable: Bubbl.us • Sophisticated, online, shareable: Mindmeister • Downloads: Cmap, FreeMind

Mindmapping for Macintoshes Supporting Tools: Sketchcast

• Resources: • Sketchcast: http://www.sketchcast.com – Mindmapping.org: Mac-Based Mind and Concept Mapping: http://www.mind- mapping.org/blog/2008/04/mac-based- mind-and-concept-mapping/

6 Resources: Mind-mapping.org Supporting Tools: Thinkature

• http://www.thinkature.com • http://www.mind-mapping.org/blog/

Resources: Concept Mapping Resources: ABCs of Writing Resources Guide • http://www.angelfire.com/wi/writingproce • http://www.socialresearchmethods.net/ ss/specificgos.html mapping/mapping.htm

More This presentation

• CTER: Concept Mapping: • Slides will be available at: http://wik.ed.uiuc.edu/index.php/Concep http://www.slideshare.net/umhealthscie t_mapping nceslibraries/ • EduTechWiki: Concept Map: • Contact: http://edutechwiki.unige.ch/en/Concept_ – Patricia F. Anderson, map [email protected]

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