Digital Mapping

 

10 Top Sites for Brainstorming and Mind Mapping

 

University of Texas Digital Writing Research Lab: Mind-Mapping 101 

 

Tim Turner: Using Mind Maps for Peer Review

 

Noah Mass: Mind-Mapping the Movie: Rhetoric of the Road Trip

 

Tina Battistelli: Mind-Mapping the Rhetorical Audience

 

Mind Mapping Resource Center

 

Sid Yadav: 9 Great Ways to Make Mind Minds and Flow Charts Onlines

 

Chuck Frey: Mind Mapping Software blog

 

The Mind Mapping Blog

 

ReadWriteThink: Create a persuasion map

 

Access Center: Graphic Organizers and Learning Design

 

University of Minnesota: Digital Media Center: Mindmapping

 

Graphic: examples of concept maps

 

Institute of the Future: Knowledge map for the future of education

 

 

Inspiration

 

Inspiration

 

Teaching History with Technology: Using Inspiration

 

Vicki Blackwell: Using Inspiration in the classroom

 

Internet4Classrooms: Using Inspiration

 

TeacherTube video: Getting started with Inspiration

 

Two teachers discuss using Inspiration to teach writing

 

Inspiration in the Classroom: Created by Teachers

 

 

Wordle

 

Wordle

 

Ways to Use Wordle in the Classroom

 

Using Wordle for teaching literature and writing

 

 

Other open-source digital mind-mapping tools

 

50 Useful Mind-Mapping Tools

 

Nine collaborative mapping tools

 

Traci Gardner: NCTE: Mind Mapping Graphic Organizers

 

Spider-Scribe (add images, maps, notes, files, etc.) to maps

 

Bubbl.us

 

Creately: Diagrams or flowcharts

 

VUE

 

Argument Mapping Tutorials

 

IHMC CmapTools

 

Ekpenso

 

eDraw

 

Text2Mind Map--transforms outlines into maps

 

Webspiration: Collaborative brainstorming and mapping

 

Frank Pirrone: Collaborative Concept Maps (using Cmaps)

 

DebateMapper: mapping debates

 

Comapping: Collaborative mapping

 

Open University Open Lab: Compendium: knowledge-mapping tool

 

Screencast: Using Compendium knowledge-mapping

 

WisdomMap

 

Freemind

 

My Mind

 

Belvedere

 

Mindomo

 

Mind 42: collaborative maps

 

Umlet 3.2

 

VYM (View Your Mind)

 

Mindmeister

 

Wise Mapping

 

Cayra

 

Glinkr

 

Writemaps: maps websites

 

Kdissert

 

Flash demo of Kdissert

 

 

Graphing tools

 

Create a Graph

 

Tools for creating charts and graphs

 

 

Hypertext Mapping Tools

 

Storyspace

 

Jeanie C. Crain, Storyspace Hypertext Writing Environment

 

StoryspaceTM publisher, Eastgate Software

 

For examples of hypertext fiction see the Reading Room at Eastgate:

 

For Robert Coover’s hypertext fiction

 

 

Geographic mapping tools

 

Google Maps

 

Google Maps

 

Dual Maps: Mashup combines Google Maps with street view and other features

 

Google Lit Trips: Link authors and books to Google Maps

 

Mike Williams: Tutorial: Using Google Maps

 

Google Maps Mania: blog on Google maps

 

Clay Burrell: Google Maps for personal narrative writing

 

Teachers Teaching Teachers: Using Google Maps in teaching writing

 

 

Google Earth and other geographical digital maps

 

Google Earth Across the Curriculum

 

Google Earth: download: 3-D views of spaces/places

 

Google Earth Lessons

 

Using Google Earth in the Classroom: Lots of resources

 

Ten Interactive Geography Games and Maps

 

Woices: Add audio "echoes" to different places throughout the world

 

Thematic Maps: Maps about energy, climate, demographics, etc.

 

OpenStreeMap: Mapping the entire world

 

MapTrot: Map Your Community

 

TimeSpace: Interactive map of the world linked to news articles

 

Community Walk: map out a walk

 

Mapmaker: make a map of a community

 

Map It!

 

WorldMapper: Maps about different aspects of the world

 

Microsoft Collections

 

Prezi: Create maps or directions with zoom features

 

Yahoo Maps

 

MapSkip: share stories about geographic places

 

Demogirl.com: Using MapSkip

 

Microsoft Virtual Earth

 

Microsoft Maps: combines phone directory data with mapped locations

 

Geotagged photos from Flickr

 

GIS and Geographic Inquiry

 

MotionBased: uses GPS data to create maps

 

A Literary Map of Manhattan, The New York Times

 

Chandler, T., and H. An. 2007. Using digital mapping programs to augment student learning in social studies. Innovate, 4 (1).

 

 

Information sites about specific places

 

City of Memory: Interactive storytelling map of New York City

 

GlobalMotion: wiki with information about places throughout the world

 

Tupalo: share information about specific neighborhoods, towns, cities