Online Outliners &
Mindmapping Tools
PF Anderson,
Emerging Technologies Librarian,
Health Sciences Libraries,
[email protected]
Outliners & Graphic Thought
Organizers
• Tools to introduce concepts of
structured thinking
• Tools to use for outlining and writing
support
• Most free, best fee
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Outliners: Persuasion Map
• http://www.readwritethink.org/materials/
persuasion_map/
Outliners: LooseStitch
Outliners: Persuasion Map
• Advance
organizer
• Reminders of
process and
place in process
Outliners: LooseStitch
• http://loosestitch.com/
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Outliners: ThinkFold
• Collaborative
• Good for teamwork
• Web-based
Outliners
• How to: Persuasion Map
• Web-based, personal use: LooseStitch,
“publishable”
• Web-based, team use: ThinkFold
Flowcharts: DrawAnywhere
Outliners: Scrivener
• Professonal writers tool, $$
Flowcharts
• DrawAnywhere
• Gliffy
• Flowchart
Flowcharts: Gliffy
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Flowcharts: Flowchart.com
Flowcharts: Flowchart.com
Flowcharts: Flowchart.com
Flowcharts: Flowchart.com
Graphic Thought Organizers
Graphic Organizers: Boolify
• Expand on idea of outliners
• More visual
• Transition between outlines and
mindmapping
• http://boolify.org/
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Graphic Thought Organizers:
Lexicon
• Lexicon - Interactive Graphic
Organizers Sampler:
http://www.workingsimulations.co
m/graphic_organizer.html
Mindmapping & Concept
Mapping
• Mindmapping as a way of thinking
• Simple tools
• Collaboration - online, shareable,
teamwork
• Downloads
Mindmaps: Text2MindMap
Graphic Thought Organizers:
VUE
• http://vue.uit.tufts.edu/index.cfm
Mindmaps: WikiMindMap
• http://www.wikimindmap.org
Mindmaps: Bubbl.us
• http://www.text2mindmap.com
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Mindmaps: Mind42
Mindmaps: Mindmeister
Mindmaps: Mindmeister
Mindmaps: Mindmeister
• Editing view
• Team editing
• Exports to a variety of formats
Mindmaps: Cmap
Mindmaps: FreeMind
• Cmap (Download): http://cmap.ihmc.us/
http://cmap.ihmc.us/download/
• FreeMind (Download, Java):
http://freemind.sourceforge.net/wiki/inde
x.php/Main_Page
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Mindmaps: FreeMind
• FreeMind: screenshot - computer
knowledge
Mindmapping - Highlights
• What is mindmapping illustration:
WikiMindMap
• Simple, online shareable: Bubbl.us
• Sophisticated, online, shareable:
Mindmeister
• Downloads: Cmap, FreeMind
Mindmapping for Macintoshes
• Resources:
Mindmaps: FreeMind
• FreeMind: screenshot - German
language
Mindmapping for
Macintoshes: Mindnode
• http://www.mindnode.com/
Supporting Tools: Sketchcast
• Sketchcast: http://www.sketchcast.com
– Mindmapping.org: Mac-Based Mind and
Concept Mapping: http://www.mindmapping.org/blog/2008/04/mac-basedmind-and-concept-mapping/
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Supporting Tools: Thinkature
• http://www.thinkature.com
Resources: ABCs of Writing
• http://www.angelfire.com/wi/writingproce
ss/specificgos.html
Resources: Mind-mapping.org
• http://www.mind-mapping.org/blog/
Resources: Concept Mapping
Resources Guide
• http://www.socialresearchmethods.net/
mapping/mapping.htm
More
This presentation
• CTER: Concept Mapping:
http://wik.ed.uiuc.edu/index.php/Concep
t_mapping
• EduTechWiki: Concept Map:
http://edutechwiki.unige.ch/en/Concept_
map
• Slides will be available at:
http://www.slideshare.net/umhealthscie
nceslibraries/
• Contact:
– Patricia F. Anderson,
[email protected]
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