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Concept-Mapping Software
SMART Ideas
SMART Ideas software brings the power of visual learning to your classroom. Students can better analyze and understand complex ideas by building multilevel interactive maps in this fun, colorful software.
Multilevel maps take students through concepts one level at a time for greater clarity, and easily convert into a multipage website for everyone to share
Highlights
Engage students with multiple views
Present information from a variety of perspectives using the diagram, outline, global or presentation views.
Encourage creative thinking in your classroom
Use interactive clip art, connectors, patterns and images to bring ideas to life.
Enhance lessons using multilevel maps and multimedia
Go deeper into ideas with multilevel maps and dynamic multimedia tools.
Features
Style collections
Drag and drop ready-made symbols, basic and deluxe connectors, images and interactive clip art.
Visual effects
Change connector styles and add patterns, images and shading to symbols.
Multilevel diagrams
Add sublevels to symbols to create multilevel diagrams and then export maps to create navigable websites.
Hyperlinks
Add links or attachments to files, websites and levels within diagrams. Link to multimedia files and play them within SMART Ideas software.
Quick connect
Create new, linked symbols with a single keystroke.
Layout
Automatically organize diagrams by choosing a layout style.
Collapse and expand levels
Collapse or expand tree diagrams one branch at a time.
Clip-art Gallery and Cliplets
Use over 2,000 resizable pieces of clip art, organized by curriculum topic. Or use cliplets to tell time, measure angles and much more.
Multiple views
Easily switch between the diagram view or the text-based outline view to demonstrate the connection between visual and written ideas. Or show all map levels at once with the global view. For presentations, use the presentation view to remove toolbars to view and display maps.
Legend creation
Create legends easily to emphasize meaning in symbols and their relationship to information.
Save in easy-to-share formats
Save concept maps as Microsoft Word documents, HTML files or image files, keeping all map levels intact.
Cross-platform compatibility
Open maps on both Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X platforms.
SMART Board interactive whiteboard integration
Use with a SMART Board interactive whiteboard for touch control, handwriting recognition and more.