RE: [school-discuss] free/open inspiration replacement? (concept mapping)

[Michael Viron <mviron@findaschool.org>]

Try cmap, available at http://cmap.coginst.uwf.edu/ .

Sounds like it'll do what you need.

Michael

At 06:32 AM 10/21/2002 -0400, you wrote:
>Inspiration, and the child-friendly version Kidspiration, are pretty decent
>software products.  I even use Inspiration for drafting essay outlines; I
>don't know whether they fall under the category of "mind mapping" or not.
>
>http://www.inspiration.com/index.cfm
>
>The closest match in interface appearance would be Visio, and I know there's
>at least one free competitor (Dia, at http://www.lysator.liu.se/~alla/dia/).
>
>But Inspiration is good simply because of the simplicity in the product.  I
>would also be interested in a free competitor... I was planning to use Wine
>otherwise.
>
>Jason H. Mervyn
>Computer Specialist
>NY & VA DDESS
>jmervyn@wps.odedodea.edu
>(845) 938-5276
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Alan Chen [mailto:alan@digikata.com] 
>Sent: Monday, October 21, 2002 1:51 AM
>To: schoolforge-discuss@schoolforge.net
>Subject: Re: [school-discuss] free/open inspiration replacement? (concept
>mapping)
>
>On Mon, Oct 21, 2002 at 12:39:54PM +0700, David Bucknell wrote:
>> I have a colleague who is pushing hard for me to let her train teachers
>using
>> the concept mapping software called "Inspiration." It makes idea trees
>with
>> boxes for leaves in-on which people can write. It's slick. But I don't
>want to
>> back down on free - open only right now. She is not happy with my quick
>and
>> dirty html alternatives or just graphics using GIMP. 
>> 
>> Ideas, please?
>> 
>> David 
>
>Could you go into a little more detail regarding what "Inspiration" does?
>So far it sounds like you could maybe use a wiki or modified-wiki.
>
>twiki.org hosts one of many wiki packages availiable in the Open Source
>realm.
>
>-- 
>Alan Chen
>Digikata LLC
>(909) 576-5489
>http://digikata.com
>
>