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Greetings, PINBALL is an unusual, online mind mapping tool. I found today’s offering nestled in amongst a long list of mind mapping apps on a web page curated by a well known teacher librarian (who’s name escapes me). It was the name that first caught my attention — PINBALL. What a weird name for a [...]

Greetings, CONNECTED MINDS is a free mind map tool with a twist. Does your school or school district use Google Apps/Tools? Do students have their own Google/Gmail accounts? If so then you may be more then a little interested in today’s offering — CONNECTED MINDS — a mind mapping tool with Google integration. First of all, CONNECTED MINDS [...]

Greetings, SLICKPLAN is a kind of web based mind mapping tool. Today’s offering, SLICKPLAN describes itself as a site mapping tool, that’s a tool used to draw the layout for web site but this app has much more potential. Using this app requires a visit to SLICKPLAN web site. Every new diagram starts with a “Home” button, (the [...]

Followers of this blog would have seen me using a few websites to produce mind maps for various purposes. For a list of free mind mappers I've used, see the useful resources page. To see examples of the mind maps in action, see Cokey Monkey, Ideas on a silver platter, and How to create an interactive mind map. Lately, my favourite has been ...

Greetings, IROHA NOTE is a free, downloadable, unique, note taking app. How about something a little different? Today’s offering is a free, downloadable note taking program called IROHA NOTE that runs on a Mac, Windows or Linux OS. What makes IROHA NOTE unique? Think of it as a traditional note taking program (Main topic, indented sub topic, ...

Wiki MindMap is a cool site for searching through wikipedia in a mind map style. All a user has to do is enter a term and results are returned in a mind map format. I highly recommend giving Mind Map a try by clicking here!! For my top 10 sites on creating a Mind Map click here.

Greetings, MINDMAPS is a free, easy to use, online mind mapping tool. If you’re a fan of DE Tools, you know that I’m not a fan of mind-maps. Perhaps I’m just too linear, sequential to appreciate the graphic display of thoughts and ideas. I’ve also found that many of the free online tools are clunky and difficult [...]

Read my analysis of emergent language based on lessons using the above image in my guest post for Barbara Sakamoto's Teaching Village. Thanks, Barb, for the invite. Related posts: Speaking lesson using close-up imagesPhotos + Mindmap = Ideas on a silver platterCokey Monkey lesson planEvery picture tells a story - let the students speak!

Greetings, SPIDERSCRIBE: is a free, online, mind mapping tool. It’s been awhile since a mind mapping tool was featured, so here’s a new one that is still in beta. It’s called SPIDERSCRIBE and it promises a simple and easy to use service. SPIDERSCRIBE is certainly easy to use, for the most part. The reason is functionality. [...]