Construct, Brainstorm, Learn and Share
CmapTools for iPad is the best iPad app for the construction and sharing of concept maps. It is the perfect tool to rapidly construct concept maps and knowledge models on your iPad and share them on the Cmap Cloud. Based on the same simple user interface for constructing concept maps familiar to millions of CmapTools users, CmapTools for iPad enables the full elaboration of Knowledge Models, with drag-and-dropping gestures for resources and concept maps, full style palette, and additionally takes advantage of the direct manipulation of the iPad to further simplify the construction of concept maps.
Through the synchronization feature, concept maps and resources on your iPad are synchronized with those in your Cmap Cloud account, which can be accessed also from CmapTools on the Desktop. Automatically move your iPad and desktop or laptop.
Expand your use of the CmapTools suite and take advantage of the integration of the programs to graphically express your understanding and ideas on all domains of knowledge.
CmapTools for iPad is ideal for students and teachers, for concept mapping while traveling, for brainstorming during meetings and note-taking.
- CmapTools for iPad can be downloaded for free from the App Store, and requires an iPad with iOS 7 or above.
- The synchronization with the Cmap Cloud and export features are an In-App purchase.
- Synchronization requires an Internet connection.
Concept mapping is a graphic organizer which as an instructional strategy acts as an advance organizer. Advance organizers assist in making meanings; they help the learner connect existing knowledge with new knowledge – to make knowledge dynamic rather than passive. At the simplest level, advance organizers represent ways to assist the learner to organize information – to make connections. At the more complex and precise level we would see these as tools learners employ to illustrate / represent frameworks for organizing concepts and relationships between concepts.
CmapTools provide a variety of features useful for teachers and for many of the tasks that students do in the classroom. These include pre-and-post assessments, research, organizing information and building knowledge, collaborative work, as artifacts for an evaluation portfolio plus many more other tasks in the classroom.