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Mindmapping is a great way to organize thoughts, ideas, writing, projects, meetings and much more. Here are six free mindmapping apps and services that educators and students can use.

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Improve your writing and thinking skills with Webspiration Classroom™ service. Jumpstart your brainstorming, organize your work, and create well-written papers using visual thinking and outlining strategies. Collaborate with your peers, communicate with teachers or work independently, anytime and anywhere you have Internet access.

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Use the free online library of thinking guides.

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The Web is about IDEAS+PEOPLE.

Cohere is a visual tool to create, connect and share Ideas.

Back them up with websites. Support or challenge them. Embed them to spread virally.
Discover who - literally - connects with your thinking.

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Blumind is a lightweight and powerful mind mapping tool, and it is free.

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Online mindmapping tool to help organize and see deeper insights.  Open source.

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Flowchart.com is an online multi-user, real-time collaboration flow charts service. It's Flowcharting made easy.

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Thoughtboxes is a simple tool that helps to organize your thoughts so you can make things happen.

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Create diagrams online & collaborate!
No download, no-install. Log in from anywhere & draw!

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Real-Time Diagrams For Your Team
The no-hassle presentation and online mind mapping

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Creaza offers you an integrated, web-based toolbox for creative work, both at school and in your free time.  You use the toolbox along with various fully developed thematic universes:  historical periods, fairy-tales, fantasy worlds, and current challenges, such as climate/environment.

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Full featured online flow charting solution. Create professional quality diagrams in minutes without software installation.

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PINBALL is here to help you kick start new ideas, to get your thoughts flowing freely, and to develop your creative talents. Bounce your ideas around by using these fun and simple tools, and who knows what ideas might pop up.

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Isn't 42 the answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything? Well, in this case it means FOR TWO and indicates the collaborative character of mind42. Manage all your ideas, whether alone, twosome or working together with the whole world - collaborative, browser-based and for free.

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I based the mind map on Plath’s poem “Elm” – just pulling apart the themes that run across the stanzas and showing their ties. Didn’t come out exactly as I had hoped but still much better than I expected. I took a screenshot of the Pages document and published this post using the WordPress app to see how that would work with an image created on the iPad.

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XMind is the world's coolest brainstorming and mind
mapping software and the best way to share your ideas.

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Mindmaping and brainstorming service

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In Think you can create and view mind maps that are called thoughts.

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Simply type in your ideas. Drag and drop files and web pages. Any idea can be linked to anything else. Using your digital Brain is like cruising through a Web of your thinking. See new relationships. Discover connections. Go from the big picture of everything to a specific detail in seconds. Accelerate your mind.

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