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16th February 2006

Concept Mapping tools

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SmartDraw is a windows-only application for creating calendars, drawing organizational charts, flowcharts, network diagrams, or any type of concept map. It is commercial software but does have a free trial.

Although perhaps not as flashy, CmapTools is an open source, free, cross-platform software tool for concept mapping. Inspiration is a popular commercial concept mapping software tool in educational contexts (which I have enthusiastically endorsed previously) but is much more costly than a free tool like CmapTools.

Do you have another concept mapping application you like besides these? If so please comment here and provide a link to the tool. :-)
Jan Lanzing’s Concept Mapping Homepage is a bit dated but does have links to other software alternatives.

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  1. 1 On February 16th, 2006, Tom Hoffman said:

    Freemind is pretty mature. I haven’t really used it because I’m an OmniGraffle junkie.

    http://freemind.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Main_Page

  2. 2 On February 16th, 2006, Wesley Fryer said:

    Yes, I forgot about OmniGraffle for Mac OS X, I have used that a bit and like it too:

    http://www.omnigroup.com/applications/omnigraffle/

  3. 3 On February 17th, 2006, Mark Wagner said:

    GoKnow’s PicoMap for Palm and Pocket PC is a simple but effective concept mapping program designed for students. The best feature? Any node can link to other files in the Handheld Learning Environment… text files, spreadsheet files, drawings, animations, and even other PicoMaps.

    http://goknow.com/Products/PiCoMap/

  4. 4 On February 17th, 2006, Chris Smith said:

    I have quite a comprehensive list of mindmapping / concept mapping options at http://www.shambles.net/pages/school/mindmaps/

    Of special interest to educators … and several are free.

    Hope this is helpful

    Chris