I would like to talk about conceptual maps. I think it’s a wonderful tool to learn new ideas, concepts, facts, etc, as well as a extraordinary way to express yourself very plainly and visually. Conceptual maps help us to represent the concept and focus on the relationships between the main concepts and ideas rather than losing yourself in the details. No wonder they are used in so many areas, contexts and circumstances, they are used in schools, universities, business, corporations and organizations as useful tools for discussing, sharing and collaborating.
My favourite tools are:
- Mindomo, a web 2.0 application that allows you to make 7 private maps for free. Other options “in the cloud” are bubbls.us (let’s make some bubbles), gliffy and minmeister.
- IHMC CMap Tools. As you can read on its web page “The IHMC CmapTools program empowers users to construct, navigate, share and criticize knowledge models represented as concept maps” and it’s FREE.
One of the best options without any doubt. - FreeMind is also a nice option, it’s written in Java and free too.
- I also enjoy using VYM. His web page shows a good example of how a conceptual map should be.
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