There’s a lot to like about DrawSplat, a free interactive whiteboard, as you can see from this concept map below. While you can access DrawSplat’s concept map tool inside the whiteboard, a more robust version is available as a web-based tool.

In fact, one of my favorite additions (and it’s tied with another) is the Concept Map Studio.

Concept Map Studio

I honestly can’t imagine having had this back when I was working as a classroom teacher, or that such a tool would be available. The fact I can edit this on screen, make my own concept map maker (eat your heart out Bubbl.us, CMAP tools, Inspiration/Kidspiration) and it’s FREE is heady stuff. More importantly, it comes preloaded with templates for popular graphic organizers, can save to JSON and several other formats.

Here’s all the features…but that’s hard to read. However, you can select any individual cluster of nodes and copy/save ONLY that:

The Concept Studio Map comes with 12 Graphic Organizer Templates:

The interface isn’t perfect, but it’s good enough for quick concept maps that you could use at work or in a classroom:

You can quickly make stuff:

That’s all there is to it. Pretty simple. Not intended to do everything, but just enough.