Tools/Mindmeister

Online collaborative⁽ⁱ⁾ mindmapping and planning

Tool Description MINDMEISTER (mindmeister.com) is an incredibly easy mind-mapping^(tool) tool. It lets you put ideas in boxes and link them together - as one does in concept mapping^(tool). A box can contain a picture or a document or a link to a web site. MINDMEISTER might be used to make a ‘poster’ summarising a course. Furthermore, several people can work on the same mindmap at the same time. ^(edit)MINDMEISTER (mindmeister.com) is an incredibly simple mind-mapping⁽ⁱ⁾ tool. It lets you put ideas in boxes and link them together - as one does in concept mapping⁽ⁱ⁾. A box can contain a picture or a document or a link to a web site. MINDMEISTER might be used to make a ‘poster’ summarising a course. Furthermore, several people can work on the same mindmap at the same time.

Teaching Approach. Mind mapping tools can engage pupils in higher order^(ta) reasoning^(ta) around the visualisation^(ta) of a problem, topic, or subject. Computerised tools often support embedding multimedia into these maps, providing a richer document and potential to engage pupils in creating videos, images, and text around a particular issue and organising these. Teachers could think about what sort of information pupils should include on their maps - keywords, key people, concepts, times, artefacts, etc., and whether or not the maps are used to display their knowledge of a domain (concept mapping) or to build new ideas and evaluation (brain storming). ^(edit)

Tool details
Title	Mindmeister - mindmapping
Topic	[[Topics/Collaborative|Collaborative]],  [[Topics/Mindmap|Mindmap]]
Licence / Cost / Platform	Web tool
Subject / Categories	Collaborative, ToolInfo, Mindmap
Teaching Ideas / Links
Link	http://www.mindmeister.com