[Year 12 IPM] Mind Mapping and Concept Planning Software

[Kathy Lewis]

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Katherine Lewis
Co-Acting Assistant Principal
ICT/Systems Manager
ARIES Instructor
OH&S Staff Representative
La Trobe Secondary College
Waiora Road,
MACLEOD Vic 3085
' 03 9459 9633
7  03 9459 1671
. lewis.katherine.k at edumail.vic.gov.au
 

-----Original Message-----
From: ipm-bounces at edulists.com.au [mailto:ipm-bounces at edulists.com.au] On
Behalf Of Donna Benjamin
Sent: Tuesday, 5 September 2006 12:20 PM
To: Year 12 Information Technology Processing and Management
Teachers'Mailing List
Cc: SAMANTHA MITCHELL
Subject: Re: [Year 12 IPM] Mind Mapping and Concept Planning Software

On Tue, 2006-09-05 at 11:44 +1000, SAMANTHA MITCHELL wrote:
>  Does anyone use an alternative mind mapping software e.g. Open Source 
> / Web-based or at leaast more affordable?

http://freemind.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Main_Page
Open source - written in Java, available for windows, mac and linux
platforms. 
Here's an article about FreeMind:
http://software.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=04/09/10/1946203&tid=79

and

http://cmap.ihmc.us/
CmapTools client is free for use by anybody, whether its use is commercial
or non-commercial, whilst it is not Open Source, it is freely available for
most platforms.

or

http://www.insilmaril.de/vym/
View your mind - but it is not currently available for windows.

you might also like to check out: 
http://www.freemindmaps.net/

and the Mind map article on wikipedia is pretty good.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mind_map

cheers
Donna


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donna benjamin - executive director
http://www.creativecontingencies.com/
ph +61 3 9326 9985 | mob +61 418 310 414 research - facilitation - web
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