New Media Tech

Another mind-mapping programme…

Although I think that Mindmeister is far superior but it does cost about $100 NZ per year to keep it. While it is a WONDERFUL WONDERFUL tool, I don’t think it is worth this much to me - especially as the power of it only really starts to take hold when you are collaborating and it is just too big of an expense to get - particularly students - to foot. Also, the fact is that people are still nervous about handing out credit card details etc. over the internet - especially for an on-line programme.

So I have found, and trialled, very briefly, bubbl.us.  It is not as streamlined - a bit more fiddly but I like that you can get the ‘legs’ to go down rather than straight out - which is something that annoys me about mindmeister - but I guess it makes it more straight forward.

Just like mindmeister - you can print and embed your mind map. As well as work on it collaboratively with other users and e-mail it.

Is anyone using it - I would love to hear what other people think about this.

This looks like a pretty cool little site.  Only in beta stage right now but still looks good.  It offers a wide range of graphing tools that you are able to view at various levels, zoom etc.  check it out.

I liked that it had all sorts of graphs,  PMI charts, mind maps etc.  and you get given a range of shapes, images to use as well as text.

I am feeling somewhat overloaded by all of the little sites popping up that do this and that… However, this site actually looks quite cool.  I would assume that you could embed these into your wikis and websites - and of course into your LMS - you would hope!  If you can embed then you could pop it straight into a Moodle web page which would be very cool.

I also like the way that they are concerned about making the appropriate thinking happen - rather than just gimmicks…