WikiMindMap produces a mindmap view of Wikipedia content. According to the developers, it “is a tool to browse easily and efficiently in Wiki content, inspired by the mindmap technique. Wiki pages in large public wikis, such as wikipedia, have become rich and complex documents. Thus, it is not allways straight forward to find the information you are really looking for. This tool aims to support users to get a good structured and easy understandable overview of the topic you are looking for.”

This tool has the potential to help students overcome the “information overload” syndrome by presenting information in a mind map format, which could be great for visual learners. All you have to do is type in a key term, event etc. and the (online) program creates a dynamic mindmap with links to sections in wikipedia. I typed in World War I and the following mind map appeared. I don’t know if I’d use this initially with students as the process of creating a mind map helps them to make connections and develop causal reasoning skills about content they are studying, whereas WikiMindMap does all the work. It could be good for revision or to help navigate the massive amount of information on wikipedia.