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Technology for Teaching

Concept Mapping & Mind Mapping

Both concept mapping and mind mapping are techniques for representing knowledge as key ideas either using ‘nodes’ (terminology used in concept mapping) or ‘branches’ (terminology used in mind mapping) on a map. Links are then created among/between key ideas to represent relationships of the nodes to the main idea and to each other.

  • Concept maps are organized in a hierarchical manner with the primary idea at the top
  • Mind maps tend to be multimodal (including text, images, etc) and generally start with a main idea at the center of the map that branch out to individual ideas connected to the main idea.

Cacoo

Cacoo allows users to easily create online diagrams like mindmaps and share them with your team for real time collaboration.

Mindmeister

MindMeister helps facilitate the creation of mindmaps as an individual or collaboratively via an online and mobile platform.

Device Agnostic

Mindomo

Mindomo helps facilitate the creation of mindmaps as an individual or collaboratively via an online and mobile platform.

Device Agnostic

VUE*

“The Visual Understanding Environment (VUE) is an Open Source project based at Tufts University. The VUE project is focused on creating flexible tools for managing and integrating digital resources in support of teaching, learning and research.” VUE provides a flexible environment for structuring, presenting, and sharing information.

References

The following are just a few resources addressing the use of mind maps in teaching and learning.


*Tools that appear with an asterisk on the pages are commonly used at the Geisel School of Medicine.