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 * The company's online website: [|Thinking Maps®]**

The site you are viewing is a public wikispaces.**com** space, monitored via permissions settings.
 * NOTE:**

Barrow County School District also provides a private domain wikispaces.**net** reserved for use by its teachers and students..


 * To obtain Barrow's Wikispaces.net [Private Domain] Memberships:**

Sign up for Barrow's District domain at **[|http://barrow.wikispaces.net.]** (Link to tutorials and instructions for signing on your class of students.)

Once status as a district educator has been approved, members are able to join:
 * [|Apalachee High School's Thinking Maps® Wiki]** [currently private]
 * [|http://ahstm.barrow.wikispaces.net]**

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**[|Learning Prep]**
An overview of school-wide use of Thinking Maps® with many listed examples. http://www.learningprep.org/thinkingmaps.htm

[|Tangipahoa Parish]
High school examples - For example, the Ponchactoula High post is a powerpoint with numerous photos of students creating TMs. http://www.tangischools.org/thinkingmaps/thinkingmaps.html

[|Volusia]
[One of my old stomping grounds - Volusia County School District, FL became the first magnet district in the nation!] Engages parent involvement and help links. http://www.volusia.k12.fl.us/titleI/thinking_maps.htm

Revisit
Additional Resources About Thinking Maps® Usage: http://edinanua.blogspot.com/2008/01/pedagogical-flow-map.html

Thinking Map® Online Collections Frame of Reference Circle Map Bubble Map Brace Map Bridge Map Double Bubble Map Flow Map Tree Map Multi-Flow Map**
 * Additional Online Information:

To Do
Glean from the following Google search string:  __[|media center thinking maps "high school"]__ Enter search strings into [|Middlespot].
 * Create start pages for Media Center Thinking Tools via netVibes, igoogle, pageflakes and My Yahoo!. others? Ex: [|USC Writing Program]

I created a Glogster page before Christmas break to link sites influenced by the holiday movie "It's a Wonderful Life" - a simple map example, but lost connection to it via school when a new filter application was initiated. 02/24/2009 Revisited and found that there's an education section to Glogster; also blocked. Will have to submit a request to have it unblocked. http://www.glogster.com/edu/.

Ideas
Explore how to incorporate structure of Thinking Maps® into presentation styles - substitute for bullet points. (refer to "Create start pages" above)

= = =Other Sites to Consider=
 * ===White Board Sites=== || ===Possibilites for Use=== ||
 * Online Tools to Aid Use of TM || Inspiration for New Ways to Use TM ||
 * [|artpad] |||| [|pikiwiki] ||
 * [|Best4c] || [|sproutbuilder] (no longer free) ||
 * [|Dabbleboard] || [|ZuiPrezi] ||
 * [|draw:labs:autodesk] ||  [|Organize & present content via igoogle tabs] ||
 * [|Imagination Cubed] || Naturally, //Inspiration// - but it is not free. ||
 * [|Jotspace] || [|Picture It Solved]: [|vee diagram] ||
 * [|Lovely Charts] || [|Argument Map:] [|Dear Landlord (Dylan)] ||
 * [|offtype] ||  ||
 * [|skrbl] || [|Draw Anywhere] ||
 * [|scriblink] ||  ||
 * [|stixy] ||  ||
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Interactive Mind Maps
http://agutie.homestead.com/Files/mindmap/index.html

Mind Map Resources
[|List of Mind Mapping Software (wikipedia)]

[|www.collegedegree.com/. ../99-mind-mapping]

[|Ketso Hands-on Kit - Felt and Laminate]

[|Mind Mapping for iphone / ipod touch]

[|NovaMind]: vendor with explanatory videos

http://www.text2mindmap.com/ via [|Convert outlined text to mind map in MindVisualizer] June 6th, 2008: [|Edwin's Mind Mapping Blog]

Mind Mapping & GTD
[|GTD Mind Maps Google images search string] [|Daily Activities / Journal GTD Mind Map] [|GTD Process "Wall"] [|Visual Thinking]

HS Level Uses
[|Lifehack: Mind Map]

[|Mind Map Your Delicious Tags]

Courosa's "The Networked Teacher": http://www.flickr.com/photos/courosa/344832591/sizes/m/

More in-depth information provided by the [|Mindjet] Blog: Mindjet: [|Mapping your social networks for maximum productivity online]. February 9, 2009 @ 10:30 am.

Also note**: [|Brian Solis] Online - Social Map on Flickr: [|Brian’s “Social Graph Central” pointed me to Loic LeMeur’s video on YouTube]. It is dated April 1, 2008 so there will be additional services that have come on the scene since then, but it is still a very good introduction to creating a map of your [|social network] as a personal learning (and sharing) environment.