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Online Outliners &

Mindmapping Tools

PF Anderson,

Emerging Technologies Librarian,

Health Sciences Libraries,

pfa@umich.edu© 2008 Regents of the University of Michigan. All rights reserved.

Outliners & Graphic Thought

Organizers

• Tools to introduce concepts of

structured thinking

• Tools to use for outlining and writing

support

• Most free, best fee

Outliners: Persuasion Map

• http://www.readwritethink.org/materials/

persuasion_map/

Outliners: Persuasion Map

• Advance

organizer

• Reminders of

process and

place in process

Outliners: LooseStitch

• http://loosestitch.com/

Outliners: LooseStitch

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Outliners: ThinkFold

• Collaborative

• Good for teamwork

• Web-based

Outliners: Scrivener

• Professonal writers tool, $$

Outliners

• How to: Persuasion Map

• Web-based, personal use: LooseStitch,

“publishable”

• Web-based, team use: ThinkFold

Flowcharts

• DrawAnywhere

• Gliffy

• Flowchart

Flowcharts: DrawAnywhere Flowcharts: Gliffy

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Flowcharts: Flowchart.com Flowcharts: Flowchart.com

Flowcharts: Flowchart.com Flowcharts: Flowchart.com

Graphic Thought Organizers

• Expand on idea of outliners

• More visual

• Transition between outlines and

mindmapping

Graphic Organizers: Boolify

• http://boolify.org/

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Graphic Thought Organizers:

Lexicon

• Lexicon - Interactive Graphic

Organizers Sampler:

http://www.workingsimulations.co

m/graphic_organizer.html

Graphic Thought Organizers:

VUE

• http://vue.uit.tufts.edu/index.cfm

Mindmapping & Concept

Mapping

• Mindmapping as a way of thinking

• Simple tools

• Collaboration - online, shareable,

teamwork

• Downloads

Mindmaps: WikiMindMap

• http://www.wikimindmap.org

Mindmaps: Text2MindMap

• http://www.text2mindmap.com

Mindmaps: Bubbl.us

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Mindmaps: Mind42 Mindmaps: Mindmeister

Mindmaps: Mindmeister

• Editing view

• Team editing

Mindmaps: Mindmeister

• Exports to a variety of formats

Mindmaps: Cmap

• Cmap (Download): http://cmap.ihmc.us/

http://cmap.ihmc.us/download/

Mindmaps: FreeMind

• FreeMind (Download, Java):

http://freemind.sourceforge.net/wiki/inde

x.php/Main_Page

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Mindmaps: FreeMind

• FreeMind: screenshot - computer

knowledge

Mindmaps: FreeMind

• FreeMind: screenshot - German

language

Mindmapping - Highlights

• What is mindmapping illustration:

WikiMindMap

• Simple, online shareable: Bubbl.us

• Sophisticated, online, shareable:

Mindmeister

• Downloads: Cmap, FreeMind

Mindmapping for

Macintoshes: Mindnode

• http://www.mindnode.com/

Mindmapping for Macintoshes

• Resources:

– Mindmapping.org: Mac-Based Mind and

Concept Mapping: http://www.mind-

mapping.org/blog/2008/04/mac-based-

mind-and-concept-mapping/

Supporting Tools: Sketchcast

• Sketchcast: http://www.sketchcast.com

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Supporting Tools: Thinkature

• http://www.thinkature.com

Resources: Mind-mapping.org

• http://www.mind-mapping.org/blog/

Resources: ABCs of Writing

• http://www.angelfire.com/wi/writingproce

ss/specificgos.html

Resources: Concept Mapping

Resources Guide

• http://www.socialresearchmethods.net/

mapping/mapping.htm

More

• CTER: Concept Mapping:

http://wik.ed.uiuc.edu/index.php/Concep

t_mapping

• EduTechWiki: Concept Map:

http://edutechwiki.unige.ch/en/Concept_

map

This presentation

• Slides will be available at:

http://www.slideshare.net/umhealthscie

nceslibraries/

• Contact:

– Patricia F. Anderson,

patriciafanderson@gmail.com