Inspiration

• 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
• Teachers Guide to Using Concept Maps in Education 

Other digital mapping tools   

• Coggle: Google collaborative mapping
• StoryMap: Tool for using maps related to literature or social studies topics 
• Mohiomap: Chrome Extension for creating visual maps of the files and documents you have stored in Google Drive, Evernote, Dropbox, and Box 
• Bubbl.us
• XMind  
• Lucidchart   
• iOS MindMeister for Ipad  
• iOS Inspiration Maps Lite  
• iOS Mindjet for iPad  
• iOS iBrainstorm  
• iOS Sundry Notes 
• iOS Popplet Lite 
• Android Mindmeister  
• Android Mindomo  
• Android SimpleMind Free 
• 18 Free Mind-Mapping Tools 
• 10 Top Sites for Brainstorming and Mind Mapping 
• Nine collaborative mapping tools
• Traci Gardner: NCTE: Mind Mapping Graphic Organizers
• Spider-Scribe (add images, maps, notes, files, etc.) to maps
• Creately: Diagrams or flowcharts
• VUE
• 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
• Tayasui Sketches: doodling app

Uses of digital mapping in the classroom

• Argument Mapping Tutorials
• Resources on the uses of mind-mapping 
• Three Ways to Map Stories 
• Wesley Fryer: Visual notetaking related to the Common Core 
• Embi, M. A. (2012). Web 2.0 Mindmapping and Brainstorming Tools: A Quick Guide.  Scribd. 
• 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

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
• Using Google Maps with Students
• 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

• 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

Other geographic mapping tools

• World Maps Online http://tinyurl.com/358lj7h
• Map.com {http://tinyurl.com/lar9ubo}  
• QuikMaps {http://quikmaps.com} 
• If It Were My Home {http://www.ifitweremyhome.com/index/GB} 
• Vidmap {http://www.vidmap.de} 
• Virtual Map Library {http://libraries.uta.edu/ccon/mapSearch.shtm} 
• National Geographic MapMaker {http://tinyurl.com/7llscts} 
• MapSkip {http://www.mapskip.com/index.php} 
• Interactive World Atlas {http://go.hrw.com/atlas/norm_htm/world.htm} 
• Worldmapper {http://www.worldmapper.org/index.html}
• Just Maps {http://www.justmaps.org}  
• 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