Spinscape is a graphic mapping tool that allows real-time collaboration on projects. It can help students organize their thoughts and materials for a course by creating mind maps. Students will use Spinscape in small groups to organize ideas and information for their career clusters. They will create a map called "Health Service Industry" by naming it and clicking create. Nodes will appear where they can add text or embed pictures. Other users can contribute to tasks using the node task bar to add descriptions, select collaborators, and mark tasks as complete.

1. Tutorial for Spinscape
Getting Started
http://www.spinscape.com/
Module 4 Assignment
Wanda Ardoin-Bailey
July 25, 2011

2. Spinscape (www.spinscape.com) is a graphic mapping tool that allows users to organize texts,
images, and hyperlinks for collaboration on projects and ideas. It can help students focus on the important
elements of the course by organizing their thoughts in pretraining activity or by segmenting material for a
deeper level of understanding. The real time collaboration with other users around the world adds greater
depth than any other graphic organizer.
As part of the pertaining segment of this project, students with similar career cluster interests will
assemble in small groups using Spinscape to organize thoughts, gather information, and share ideas
After signing up for the free application, students will be able to create a new map
by naming it and clicking create. This example is called Health Service Industry. A panel
referred to as a node will appear. Information is placed in a node in the form of text. Pictures
may also be embedded in the node by using the node widget.
Clicking the tab or enter button will
allow you to create a link to the
previous node.
Navigation bar will allow you to add more than texts into your nodes.
Embed a You Tube video by clicking widget and copying and pasting the embedded code above your
navigation bar.

3. Other members of the collaborating team can contribute by using the node task bar.
Multiple users can work on a task using the same mind map by simply clicking on the task bar, adding a
description, selecting collaborators, assigning a due date, clicking the notify button, and clicking the plus
simple when completed. Individual users will be notified when a task is waiting, and when the user has
completing the task they will simply click the complete button.