- Hi, everybody. Thank you for joining us today. My name is Darlene McLennan and I'm the manager of the Australian Disability Clearinghouse in Education and Training, ADCET for short. Firstly, I'd like to start by acknowledging that I am coming to you from Lutruwita, Tasmania, Aboriginal land, sea and waterways and I want to acknowledge, with deep respect, the traditional custodians of the land, the Palawa people. The Palawa people belong to the oldest continuing culture in the world. They cared and protected Country for thousands of years. They knew this land, lived on the land and died on these lands. I honour them. I want to pay respects to Elders past, present and emerging and to the Aboriginal community that continue to care for Country. I stand for a future that profoundly respects and acknowledges Aboriginal perspectives, culture, language and history and a continued effort to fight for Aboriginal justice and rights paving for a strong future. 

So, thank you once again for joining us. Today's webinar is how ideamapper helps students of varying disabilities plan, write and reference and is facilitated by a dear friend of ours, Jim Sprialis, who has presented many webinars for us over a number of years. I encourage you to look Jim up on our website and see those and search them out, because they're always informative. 

Before I ask Jim to introduce our speaker today, I wanted to highlight a few housekeeping details. For those who haven't joined us before, we are being live captioned today by Bradley Reporting and the webinar will be recorded. The recording will be available on ADCET in the coming days. To activate the closed captions, click on the CC button in the toolbar that is located either on the top or bottom of your browser or screen. We have captions available via a browser and Jane has popped that into the chat pod. If you have any technical difficulties throughout, you can email us at admin@adcet.edu.au. Our speaker, Callum, is going to talk for around 40-45 minutes today and then we'll open up to questions. Throughout the presentation, you can ask those questions that I'll ask at the end in the Q&A box, but then also, if you want to chat to us, you can also use the chat pod and choose "All panellists and attendees" so everybody else can see you. Jim has kindly offered to answer any chats people may have throughout and he'll be popping information into that top chatbox. Keep an eye on that, but if you're wanting to ask Callum a question at the end, please use the Q&A box. I think that's it from me, Jim. I'll hand over to you to do the introduction. Thank you. 

- Thank you, Darlene, and thank you to all of you who've joined us today. As Darlene's mentioned, I have regularly presented at ADCET webinars, as most of you would be aware, on behalf of Sonocent, but Sonocent’s one part of my work in my role in assistive technology and education consultant in schools, higher education. I also do some work for clients through disability employment services with their assistive technology provision. That's all come about from my role as the state manager for our Education Department here in South Australia in assistive technologies and so, I am across a lot of technologies and have credentialing with Dragon and text help and so on and I'm excited to add ideamapper to that portfolio of robust technologies that I really feel have great benefit for students who are neurodiverse. 

I'll expand on why I'm excited to be joining ideamapper. I've recently got on board with Callum and the team, because in my work as an educationalist in the last 30 years, mind mapping has been a big part of my strategy provision for students to support them with becoming better writers using mind mapping technique and technologies. But I'll talk about that and flesh it out in the chatbox. I'd like to hand over to Callum. Callum Ferguson is the sales and marketing manager at ideamapper. Thank you so much, Callum, for reaching out to me to talk about the benefits of ideamapper, and actually start to address it really being utilised as much as we'd like to, not just in schools, but in higher education and Callum will give you more information. Over to you. Thank you, Callum. 

- Thank you, Jim. Hello, everyone. My name is Callum Ferguson. I'm the sales and marketing manager at ideamapper. I'm coming to you from north-west England at the moment. It's pretty early in the morning, as you can see behind me, the sun is just kind of coming up and a lovely summer morning. I've got a 45 minute presentation for you all. I want to discuss the benefits of mind mapping and specifically, the benefits of ideamapper, what we set out to achieve, how we help students, the many different markets that we are integrated with. I'm going to show you how the program works. It's not going to be purely PowerPoint based. I'm going to move between PowerPoint and the actual program. But before I get started, I'm going to read a little bit about who I am, but I wanted to put a question out there about mind mapping. How many of you have actually used mind mapping in the past? Whether that be pen and paper, traditional way of mind mapping, or whether you've used some sort of software or recommend software to your students? How many people out there are familiar with that? Straight away, I have people saying, “Yes, Inspiration.” I'll address our relationship with Inspiration soon. I’ll let people start to respond in that chatbox. Just to clarify, there are two boxes, a chatbox and a Q&A box, if you could put it in the chatbox, that's the one I have on my screen. 

- Also, if people want to choose “All panellists and attendees" we all get to see the response as well, which will be great. 

- Okay, lovely. While answers are coming through, I'm Callum, sales marketing manager. Been here for about five years and I specialise in our education sector. So, we have an education sector. We have an education AT and a professional sector, as well. As you can challenge, mind mapping as a concept is quite applicable in many, many different industries. We have about five editions to reflect that. I've spent the last couple of years, at the very least, integrating ideamapper into assistive technology platforms, particularly in the UK. We have a scheme called the Disabled Student Allowance, which is funding students with specific learning disabilities in university and college, which is higher education. Also, access to work, which is the workplace adult version, if you would. Two very interesting schemes that I work alongside with quite regularly. My focus this year is to make ideamapper as accessible as possible. I'll explain this later on, but ideamapper itself was originally created for students with dyslexia, specific disabilities, students with neurodiversity and that's ultimately why we ended up in the assistive technology market. But as we grow and as we become more integrated with assistive technology, we want to make it more accessible in many, many ways. That's including accessible with other AT programs and that includes features that I will discuss later on. 

In this presentation, I'm going to outline the unique innovative features of ideamapper that help address the cognitive challenges of note taking, complex learning concepts and constructing written assignments across all areas. If I move back to the chatbox, pen and paper, old school pen and paper. Lovely. That gives me quite a good idea of how many people have used it. I wanted to see if anyone hadn't used mind mapping really, which is good. No one has really said they haven't used mind mapping in the past. It is a great way, because it's a learning and an organisational tool to get your thoughts out onto a piece of paper. So, that's great. I will discuss Inspiration later on, as well. 

Jim's already given an introduction into who he is, and that's great. Jim's come on board with the team. He's going to be our man on the ground in Australia. It's our aim for the next 12 months to work with Jim and to get as many universities and higher education establishments to trial ideamapper, whether that be in a small team or across the entire university. It's how we've managed to get into markets previously is by giving out trials, getting people using it, getting people's feedback. Every country is different. All the templates, the supporting documentation that are provided with the program is always different depending on the country of origin. I feel like it is really important to work with people who've been brought up through the education industry in that sector, and also who work there as well, who are really engulfed in that area. 

I'll mention it at the end, but ideamapper are currently offering free pilot trials to universities and higher education industries for the remainder of 2020. This was originally organised before the pandemic, so that is a little bit more flexible. I will discuss it at the end with Jim, but it's something to bear in mind as we go through this presentation, and I won't read the next paragraph, because Jim's just explained that, but it's great to work with Jim. He's a great guy. 

What is ideamapper? I'm going to get straight into it now. Ideamapper was originally created as a solution for students with specific learning disabilities. The original aim was, how do we get students who struggled writing large amounts of text, particularly in higher education, that tends to be where students write long reports and essays. It was mainly students who struggled with getting their thoughts down. You tend to find that students with dyslexia, dyspraxia, neurodiversity have a lot of ideas and content in their head, a lot of creativity. The downfall, really, is when it comes to putting it on a piece of paper. You get that blank page syndrome where you've got a white piece of paper in front of you and you're not sure where to start and when you do start you've done 1,000 words and the content may be spot on, but the order's completely messed up and it doesn't really make much sense. That's the solution that we wanted to provide, that's the problem we want to tackle. It was designed by PhDs and a dyslexia expert with an MBE for services to dyslexia and other hidden disabilities. It was a love child of about three people. 

Ideamapper uses mind mapping to help students manage information in bite size format helping to unlock ideas. It includes a vast array of templates and writing frames. Again, you'll see all of this as I move through the presentation. But obviously, being an essay writing software, we have a lot of prebuilt essays in there. We have a lot of essay templates so people can just get started with, whether it's a 5 point essay or a 10 point essay where you can have introduction, three main arguments and conclusion and referencing. Like I mentioned earlier, it's my aim for this year to get ideamapper fully AT compatible. We already work with Dragon and JAWS to a certain extent, but I want to make that as integrated as possible. We have features like text-to-speech built in. We are continually developing that feature, but we don't want to reinvent the wheel where there's plenty of companies that specialise in text-to-speech or speech-to-text, so being integrated with that is a really important thing for me to achieve this year. 

Before I move into how to use ideamapper and how that works, I wanted to discuss the benefits of mind mapping itself as a concept. Learners who have dyslexia typically function at a high level, however, have an issue with reading, spelling, writing, short-term memory, concentration and processing information which is a fairly common thing if you have dyslexia or some sort of neurodiversity. It may not be all of those things, but a select few. If you've got short-term memory issues or spelling issues, that will dramatically affect the outcome of your essay or report, regardless of how much research or content you've got, dyslexia students typically function at a high level, but the shortcomings will be reflected in a writing format, like a report or essay. 

One proven method to support dyslexic students is with mind mapping. I mentioned the team that set up ideamapper, the lady with the MBE  - my boss -  she originally was a dyslexic tutor, she owned a dyslexic school and before technology was really all that advanced, mind mapping was one of the main strategies that she'd use to help students plan out. Whether it's planning out their day or an essay, it was a great planning tool and support tutors across the world still use mind mapping, whether it is technology based or just on a pen and paper. It's a fantastic tool to use, especially in supporting students with neurodiversity. 

Mind mapping can be more engaging and allows learners to practically visualise and associate concepts. Like it says in the last point, mind mapping allows the individual to break down complicated information. It's making everything bite sized. You've got so much information about one single topic; how do you start to organise it? The first thing is to get it into bite sized chunks of information and use links to start to give each idea priority and you start to build a visual structure in that map. 

This is our customer journey, our journey of the user, the student when using ideamapper. These are the things that we encompass. Learning, planning, structuring, writing, referencing and publishing. The learning thing is new, we started to introduce the learning aspect fairly recently, but until then, it was the planning stage, which is the mind mapping stage, the structure, which is the interactive element of the software where you can move the map around, the writing, which is  - again, we'll get into that  - but it's the Word processing functionality, the referencing, which is really important and then, publishing, being able to publish in whatever format you want to publish in, whether it be a presentation or a Word document, whatever that might be. These are all the things I'm going to cover today - the learning aspect, the planning aspect, the writing, the referencing and the publishing. The whole essay lifecycle, if you would. 

Because the learning one is quite a new thing, I'm going to come back to it at the end. I'm going to start with planning and move on from there and towards the end, I'm going to explain how we're using mind mapping to help students learn concepts rather than plan and write. I really want to show how ideamapper is used for students from grade 2 and 3 all the way up to university, higher education in the learning element and really increasing information retention using visual learning styles. 

So, planning document  - I'm going to get straight into it now. I'm going to keep flicking between the PowerPoint and the actual program. The PowerPoint is for us to still understand the key points I'm trying to get across and then I'll bring it up in the program and try to reproduce what we've just discussed. I've got a screenshot, that is how ideamapper looks. At the start of any mind map, you get your ideas down; it's called a brain dump. Brain dump all the points you want to discuss in your document, no matter how relevant you think it may be. This example is about a book called To the Lighthouse and I have literally mapped everything about it - the characters, the themes, anything that I think I want to discuss is on there. Whether it needs deleting later on down the line or merging with another concept, it's just all there. At this point, there's no order to the map. Everything is equal, every point -  there is a few different sizes, but there's no priority. They're all the same priority and that's why they're all orange at the moment, because nothing is more important or less important than the other. 

Again, I'll show this in the program in a minute, but what I've done on the first screenshot is I start to order. I've moved them around and I start to group things together that I want to talk about. I've got an introduction and conclusion, but the first group I put together is all about the Virginia Woolf and the early life and all that good stuff, and started to create sections. Then what I've started to do is link the ideas together. You can see the second screenshot is — what I've done is connected the main idea, the central idea. I've made that bigger so it can stand out. I've started to connect all of my sections. I've got 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 sections including the introduction and conclusion. I've structured my document, or my map. That's my first structure. The map forms the structure of document with six mid sections. The order of the map can be changed by dragging any of the ideas around. The central one, so, the order is a clockwise motion. Introduction is number one and conclusion is number six, so it is like a clock face. Imagine a clock face being plonked on top of that map. As long as you've got clockwise, which is right, that is the order of the document. For example, Virginia Woolf is 2, and then early life is 2.1. Influences are 2.2. Then Henry David is 2.2 — sorry, 2.21. You can start to understand the order of how this is achieved. It's still in that clockwise format. 

At this point, I can start to delete links, chop and change. The best way of describing this now is being another program and showing how I'm going to do this. This is the ideamapper program, it's a live document. There's a delay, so, sorry if there's a delay. I think it's about a 2 second delay. As I'm moving these things around, this is how I'm going to start grouping things together. I'm thinking, I want to talk about all these points here. I've started to put characters in the right area. This is me just grouping some of my ideas that I've put together. I might decide this is irrelevant so I can press delete and get rid of that, or I can bring it back. I start to form some sort of structure. What I'll do then is made this bigger. I can make it bigger or smaller. The idea of making the central idea bigger is so it stands out, so it's very clear that this is my central idea. There's many ways of connecting ideas. The quickest way is by holding the shift button on your keyboard and just clicking where you'd like it to attach to. The same applies if I'm clicking here. I can connect this by just keeping hold of shift and pressing the one I want to connect it to. Another option is to create links. I can click the central idea and click all the links, just like that. The third way of doing it is by dragging the idea and moving it over the idea you want to connect it to. You'll see a little timer, and there you go. I'm running the Beta version at the moment, so it will run a little bit slower than it should, but there it is. I should mention, it happens to be the way I've done this, I've took a map already completed and deleted the links and started again. I want to show you how to create one from scratch. New document. 

This is what it looks like when you start off using ideamapper. It already wants you to enter a title. Let's put my name. Press enter. That creates my idea and it automatically opens another one for me to start working on, or I can click anywhere on the screen to enter a new one. Every time I press enter, it creates another one for me to start writing whatever I want to write. I can just keep going. It's very interactive. I can move these around the map to start to create a little bit of an idea of how I'm going to structure everything and again, I start to make these connections. One thing you'll see on this map is the colours start to change. It didn't do it on the original map, because I'd already created a map, overwritten it and made everything orange. But when you start with a new map, it starts to differentiate the level of the map by the colour. That one turns blue and you'll notice lines get thinner every time I create a new level. It gets slightly thinner every time. There's no thinner after that, but you can see, I'm starting to create a map. I don't have to have it in this format. I can have it in any of these formats up here in my ribbon. This is a sideways layout. I can have a style out, a top-down, a top-up, to-the-side, a timeline. All sorts of different layouts. Or, I can have a very linear style layout. Very straight lines. It hasn't got that organic view I had a minute ago. It depends on how you like to work. Flat lines are a little boring sometimes, so you can make nice colours, start putting arrows in there, you can start to customise your map more, and the straight lines tend to work better for the more linear layouts like the top down or the bottom down. You start to create more of a flow chart type diagram, rather than a typical style layout mind map and you can start to work that down like a flow chart. That's how to create an idea, that's how to manipulate ideas. That's how to put them in some sort of structure. 

I'm going to move back to my PowerPoint. That's the planning stage. That's me just getting all my thoughts down, creating the map just like you would on a pen and paper. You want to get your ideas down to create a map and you start to colour code your map, start creating different links and changing the colours to get a structure together, get all of your ideas onto a canvas and then move on from there. 

To structure the document - I've covered this a little bit with changing the colours - but you can add clip art to suit the user to create visual cues for the brain. Ideamapper already starts to create colours for you, but you can start to colour by chapter, or colour by section. You can see in this screenshot here, themes and ideas has just been done all blue. In my head, I know the themes and ideas is blue. Then for the structure, for example, I've got some of the clip art that I want to show you in a minute. I've even changed the central idea to clip art, because it's a lighthouse - I’ve put a lighthouse in the middle. You can add things like table of contents, images and tables, which I want to show you and you can use the map to put into 3D mode to manipulate larger maps and then you can also minimise sections. That's what I want to show you now. 

At the moment, the map is pretty boring, if you would. There's not much going on. I start to create my ideas like that. But because I've not really colour-coded anything, it's just all orange at the moment. It doesn't really help me from a visual point of view start to clearly differentiate if I'm just looking at the map. I can't really differentiate the different sections, because they're the same colour. There's not much difference in size. There's not many colours, no clip art, no visual cues for me whatsoever. As I'm starting to connect these ideas, I'm thinking about adding clip art and changing the colours of each section to start to make it more visually easy for me to start to differentiate some of these concepts. 

The first thing I might do is open clip art in my tools section up here. Press my clip art and now I've got a lot of clip art here. I can search for a particular image I might want. Lightbulb, lighthouse, I'm going to use this one, a little bit different. There's my lighthouse. Still searching... I'm going to move back. I'm not going to search too much; I'll just start putting clip art into it. I'm just drilling down into each section looking for some clip art to use. I want to drag it and hover it over one of my ideas and that replaces the circle with some clip art. Alternatively, I can just drag it straight into my document. That will create an idea for me. This idea is the same as all these other circles, it's just in clip art form and I can create a new name for that. Then I can start to make the connections. Eventually, here's one of those "here what I did earlier" things, but you can end up making your map look pretty colourful and with plenty of clip art images in there to remind you of what the areas or characters, it's a good picture to remind me of the characters, because it's people, structure, themes, construction, all the rest of it. I've changed the colours of the lines. Because of the way we do organic layouts, these colours - whatever this colour this central idea is, green, it fades the colour out to whatever colour we're going to. This is purple, this is green, so it's gone from green to slightly lighter green. For me to change that, all I've got to do is change the colours. There's a colour behind this, so I'll just go to style, change the colour to purple and then that will change the central idea to the purple colour and all those lines start to become faded purple. I can continue doing this as much as I like, just keep changing the colours. I'll change it to green. I can change each idea, each subtree to a different colour, or I can select a whole bunch of ideas and change the colour of everything. If I want, I can start defining each section by a colour. It doesn't matter if I've got clip art, because the line is also a colour. That's my green section, characters, I want that to be coral, if you would. There's only a slight number of colours in my dropdown menu, so if I wanted to add more colours, I can go to Appearance and Fill Colour and I've got a load of colours I can choose from, or pick a screen colour or add RGB, so your customisation is really broad - you can have the company colours, your school colours, whatever colours you want to reflect in your map. 

3D mode. This is quite a small map in the grand scheme of things, however, there is only so much room to map before I start having to zoom out. I've got some other artefacts knocking around, I'll put them out of the way for the time being. But if I want to start adding to this map and make it a lot bigger, I'm going to have to zoom out. The problem is, when I zoom out, everything is smaller and harder to read, especially if I'm working on a small laptop or a tablet-style laptop. It's going to be hard for me to read this. That's why colours come into it. Ultimately, you want to be reading the words. We've got a thing called 3D mode in the bottom right-hand corner, it puts everything on an angle for me. I can manipulate the angle using the roller bars at the side. I can find what sort of angle I want to use this at. I might want to bring this down and start to move and see how much more space has been created. I'm not zoomed in or out, but because I've put the entire map on an angle, I can make more use of the space. You can imagine if I had a large map how much room this would save me. At the moment, I've got a fairly small map, so lots of open spaces I can still use. But for much larger maps, putting it on a 3D mode really opens up that third dimension and it creates a lot more space. I can manipulate that by using these roller bars here. I can move through the maps and focus on areas one map at a time. I can leave it at characters and then focus on this area of the map first, start to add information, whereas themes and ideas is at the back. That's out of the way at the moment. Conclusions at the back out the way. Once I've dealt with lighthouse, I can move across to structure and start doing the structure. 

The grid might put people off as well, sometimes that's quite conflicting, so you can just turn that off. Then just move through the map, one section at a time. This is a good tool to use to help students understand priorities and what things to work on at what particular time. For example, Virginia Woolf is right at the back. I can still move that around so I can see some of the stuff, but it is at the back and everyone knows the back is not important. The front is the thing you need to focus on, so this really puts it at the forefront of my mind to say, "This is what I'm focusing on right now." As I move across, I can start to focus on different areas of the map and not really having to worry about anything else. Because this is at the forefront of the map and at the forefront of my mind. Do be careful, though, when you use 3D, because when you change the structure in 3D mode, it also changes it in your map. You've just got to press auto-range, and it moves everything back into the centre again. So, the button I pressed was next to 3D mode and this is auto-range, and if I keep auto-range on and I move things through the map, it automatically moves everything around for me. It may not be the particular layout that I want. But if you're using things like the top down menu for the linear layouts where you're doing flow charts, having auto-range turned on really does help. I'm going to turn it off, now it won't snap anything into place. I like to have mind map all over the place. I like to have them plonked around. 

I'm going to zoom back in. That's 3D mode. Another way of focusing on particular areas of the map at once is when I hover over an ID, you can make these IDs bigger and smaller, but there is another icon here. Press that, and that minimises the areas of the map. So, I can just minimise everything and I can then be into focus on characters right now. I don't want to get distracted with the other things going on in my map. I've got my initial structure here, but for characters, I want to focus on these four characters. That's another great tool to use when you've got large maps. You mainly have five key points, but you may go off on many other tangents throughout the map and create very large maps. If you minimise everything, you can stick to your core ideas and then focus on the things you want to expand on one section at a time. Then, as I want to expand on them again, just press the button again and it expands the list. Just like that. Same goes, I can create another idea and link that idea and I've got the option to minimise that. I can keep doing that throughout the map. 

Next thing I want to talk about was table of contents, table of images. I've already got a table of contents up on here. A lot of people use table of contents, a lot of the time it's a requirement for reports and especially for word counts and just to help navigate such large documents when you've got it printed out. You want to know what each section contains. We have a live table of contents you can add in. This will all become very clear when I start to discuss the writing element, but we've added a table of contents. I'll show you how to do that in a second. It gives me a running word count of each section. It also tells me what percentage of my word count each section takes up, so I can see my character takes up 18.7% of my words. If I've planned out, I want four sections with equal amounts of information, I'm going to be looking for around the 25% for each. So, for characters, 25, I'm going to be looking for themes, 25, and I'm looking for the structure at 25. This is at 32, so this is out of balance at the moment. As I start to wrap more in characters, this will bring the word counts up and bring this average down. It's a great way of making sure that you don't go off track and not writing too much information in one area. It makes you become accountable for your word count. Not only does it just tell you how many words are in your total document, but this is how many words you're identifying for this section and you can identify areas you need to discuss further. 

This is a live document, so it changes every time you add or delete text and the way to add one of these is by right-clicking on your canvas, go to New and go into Table of Contents. Double-click that. This is a new one, so it's not connected to any new ideas, so there's nothing on it. When you start to connect it, you'll see it connects all the ideas and gives you a word count. The other things I want to show in this section are including Images. I can add an image. This is not clip art. This is not something I'm using on top of my ideas to help me structure, this is something I want to discuss in my document. So, it's a picture I want to reference or discuss. I want to put in a map, for example. Here's my picture of a map I want to include. I can call it whatever image I want. I might call it a concept map. I can put a caption in there if I want. Is it a figure, a diagram, an image? I click and there it is on my map. It's not as clear as the clip art, because I've not entered it as a clip art image. I've entered it as an actual image. In the bottom corner, there's a square and that tells me that's an image and I can connect to my introduction and if I double-click that, it shows me the image. I can start to reference this image. I will talk about referencing later on, or I can start to add it to any of the sections and this will appear in my document as well. 

That's the structure of the document. Now, onto the writing. If you look at the screenshots, you can enter text directly from the map by double-clicking the idea. Just like I double-click that image and it brought the image up, if I double-click, there's an element of text behind each idea. Going back to bite sized bits of information and the benefits of mind mapping, it's about using the map to create as many little chunks of information as you can and the map brings it all together in a structure. 

One thing that's unique about us, is we've got a split screen view. You can see the second screenshot there. I've got the map on the left and I've got the text on the right. As I'm moving that map around and as I'm entering information, that's reflected either on the map or reflected on text. I can write in the text whilst being able to manipulate the map, so it's not just an image or a picture of a map, it's still live. I can still manipulate the map, add information, take information away. But I can also see how that influences my text as well. The map also serves as a visual cue to remind the user what section of the document they're at and in relation to the whole document. So, this is great for especially the larger sections. I found writing about Mr Ramsay for example, it may have taken me an hour, two hours, maybe three hours to talk about Mr Ramsay and in that three hours, I've definitely forgot, or it's not as clear what section I'm actually discussing. If I've got the map on the left, I can see I'm in characters, because it's the highlighted main characters and I'm talking about one of the characters and the section I've got before that was the Virginia Woolf and I know that third point in, this is after the second point after the introduction. It becomes a lot clearer as to where I am in that document. The map serves as a visual cue reminding you whereabouts in that document you are, what's next after Mr Ramsay, what's before that, and it stops you from getting stuck in just this mess of black text on a white background, not really understanding what's next and you've got to go back to your map and figure out this is where I am and go back to your text box. Having a split screen view not only helps you structure your document at the same time as writing it, but it serves as that visual reminder whereabouts you are in that document and constantly paints that picture for you. 

I want to show you this in the document now. Back to my map again. Each idea has got, if you double click it, it shows me the image and I'm going to double click the introduction. This is not a completed essay, but there is the text. Now, I can just write in whatever I like in this text. I can start to format my text and bold it, underline it, change the colour, do all that stuff. Change the font, change the size. I can do my spell check here, I can do text to speech here, which I'll discuss later on. I'm not sure if I've loaded my phrase bank in this version; no, I don't think I have. This is where I can start to input text. If I wanted to look at this particular paragraph, I want to purely talk about the introduction. This is a good technique to use when you've come out of a lecture or done research into one topic and that's the information you've got in your mind, you don't want to confuse it with anything else. I've just learnt about Mr Ramsay; I've got an interesting point to discuss. Double click in and I can start adding to that section. I can start to write in here what I've just learnt about Mr Ramsay and without even getting confused with any of the text, I'm not put off by any other text or any other information, I purely want to focus on Mr Ramsay right now and start to enter the information in… which is great for note taking, but having to go into each idea individually to write the text can be a pain. 

We've got a split screen view. I can access it down here. This is like my quick access, but I can also go to view and click map and text view. 

Obviously, that makes my window appear small, so I'm going to move to the section I'm talking about. What you can see is I've got the map on the left. Still a live document and I've got bite sized chunks of information, all the text boxes I've opened are compiled on the right hand side and the order depends on the order of the map. The instruction information I had earlier, that's number 2 in the map, because table of contents is number 1 in the map. My characters, that information I've just put into Mr Ramsay is right there now. That nonsense bit of text I put in, but it's there. Now I can either start editing my document here, or I can, again, go back into the text individually. This is my document on the right-hand side. If I want to change the order. If I said, right, I've actually got Mr and Mrs Ramsay. If I wanted to talk about Mr Ramsay first, instead of me copying and pasting, all I've got to do is change the way they're laid out. Now, I've got Mrs Ramsay first and Mr Ramsay second and that's reflected here in the characters section. Mrs Ramsay, Mr Ramsay. Or, I can say, you know what, I don't want to talk about Mrs Ramsay in characters. Mrs Ramsay is irrelevant in this point, I really want to put it in Virginia Woolf, for example. That's where she plays most of her part, and I want to put her under Influences, because Mrs Ramsay is an influencer. 

- Sorry Callum, while you're taking a breath there, there's only 7 minutes to go. We haven't had any questions come in. I didn't stop you earlier and I've looked at your PowerPoint and you've got a bit to go. 

- I can speed things up a little bit now. I can talk about ideamapper for ages and it can sometimes run over a little bit. Sorry if I've not been keeping track of time. I will move on a little bit faster now. You can understand what's going on. Depending on how I change my structure is depending on the order of my document. 

What happens with the document now? I've wrote it, here's my images I've inserted earlier. I've got a list of table of contents. I've got to reference it now. The window, I've got to add a reference. Very similar to adding a reference into Microsoft Word. We have a referencing tool, you just click "Add a reference" here. Make the reference another part of your document. You can see, I’ve already got a list of references here I’ve put into this document. Let's say I want to create a new reference. It adds a reference section to my document, but also brings up this referencing tab. If I decide I want to reference a book, it automatically gives me all the information I need to enter to reference a book. I fill all this information in, author, first name, last name. Once I've completed that, I exit out and then that creates a reference. This can be APA, Harvard, any referencing style, whatever university uses, but in the document, it will just show whatever the reference title is, whatever I decide to call it and depending on if you've clicked APA or Harvard in the set up, depending when you click preview or print, it will actually show the Harvard style or the APA or whatever it is you've chosen. Then I also have a list of references at the bottom. It's confusing at the moment, because I've got loads of different references and I've not tied them up properly. Normally, it will just have one list of references at the bottom and bibliography is what it is and that's automatically added as soon as you add a reference in. Again, once your document is ready to go and you've added your reference in, you've got a few different options now. You can just press print and I print your document straight off. I've got it in the report form at the moment, but you can change it to an essay format. You can see my table of contents is here, tells me what page each section is on. I've got my images that I added. Some sections aren't complete. I've not chosen my referencing style yet, so that's why it comes up as “Sparknotes”. As soon as I enter my referencing style, I can choose APA and it will lay it out in an APA format or Harvard format. 

I'm going to jump back to my PowerPoint, because I'm conscious of time. That was poor timekeeping on my part. You can reference images, diagrams, figures, just as you would do in Word, as you would do in any other document processing software. We're trying to make it as easy as possible to reference your figures or diagrams or referencing text full stop. Bibliographies are automatically added, so that's the referencing side of things. Then, publishing, you can publish in whatever format you really like. You can export it to Word or PowerPoint. The best thing about exporting to PowerPoint, say you've just done a map and you need to actually present your ideas, sometimes the best way to present your ideas is using PowerPoint just like I'm presenting my ideas now using PowerPoint. All you've got to do is save as a PowerPoint document and then it automatically — this is a screenshot with no formatting whatsoever, it automatically puts each idea as its own slide. I can show you before I finish. To the Lighthouse... all I've done now is just press export to PowerPoint and this is exactly how it looks. My table of contents needs more formatting, but very easy to format now. The ones I have entered information puts it straight in there. I can present my ideas to someone, whether it's in front of a classroom or just presenting to my boss, whatever it might be. It's all ready to go. 

We also have a presenter mode built into ideamapper. This will be released in our next edition in the next couple of weeks, but as you cycle through your text view, it also shows you at the same time where you are on the map. How am I doing for time? Have I got a couple of minutes? 

- Not really, you've got a minute. Probably, the price structure is one of the questions we've had, so I don't know if you wanted to go to that one. 

- Have we got time to talk about visual learning? 

- Just quick. 

- We have got a section on our website called Visual Learning, the best way to learn about visual learning, how we use ideamapper to support the learning process for students is by simply going onto our website, clicking the visual learning tab and there's loads of videos about the benefits of visual learning and how we use things like concept maps and cause and effect maps to help or increase memory retention, to understand the relationships between different concepts. You can see here, I've got a cause and effect map where the sun, gravity and a force that keeps it on the ground. It's definitely gravity. So, that's for younger kids. I've got a concept map above that, which shows the relationship between soil and how valuable it is and if you want to get information, email me directly or look on the website under the visual learning tab and there's loads of information there. We had questions about pricing. This is our multiuser pricing list, so, $45 per licence per year for anywhere between 20 and 49 licences. What I've got in front of me is the individual one. 

- We'll keep recording, so if people have to head off to their next meeting, you'll be able to catch up with the end of the presentation when we put the video up. 

- There's one Q&A which I'll answer in a moment about integration with other programs, but Callum, if we can go back to the software and just quickly give everyone a snapshot of those templates. There was one there with the essay writing academic one. Do you know the one that I mean? 

- Let me go back to my templates. Are you talking about in the program? 

- When you go to File and Open Document. It might be worth looking at some of those higher education ones that have those writing frames to help a student not start with a blank page. 

- Yes, so we've got either examples. These are blank basically, there's nothing filled in. These are structures already written out for you, so you can find the structure that suits you and move into it and it already plans out your introduction, your conclusion and what you need to be including. 

- I was thinking of the phrase banks one, but it gives people an idea of how far you can take the program, in what depth. 

- Yes, definitely. These maps…   

- Can we open one up and show everyone the split view of the map and text? 

- Yes, no problem. This is the layout, it's not the most colourful map, but we'll bring that up. I've got a million tabs open on my computer at the moment, so, sorry if it's running a bit slow. This is the split screen view. The map is — when you get larger maps like this, it's sometimes hard to see. I can put that map into a 3D mode if I like. 

- But when you click on each section of the map, it goes straight to that section of the document. 

- Exactly. So, I can click on this section, for example, and that takes me to that area of the document, so I can do any of these and it takes me straight there. It's great for a revision tool, as well. People are revising in different areas. You can click on the map and it gives you the information straight away. Is that what you wanted to discuss, Jim? 

- That was great. I thought it would be useful for people to see that it can be used to create quite a large essay. 

- Again, I can only apologise for running over. I get carried away with myself sometimes. I'm sorry I didn't manage to go into as much detail towards the end, but if you want to check out our pricing structure, again, go on our website. You can see individual pricing, for subscription, for perpetual and if you want to look at site licences, that dramatically reduces in price. Feel free to send an email to check that out. Is there any questions that I need to answer? 

- I've got a question, does ideamapper work with Glean, Audio Note Taker and Read and Write? Callum, you mentioned it does integrate with Read and Write. We've got text-to-speech. Things like Glean, Audio Note Taker and Read and Write, you might use them in different ways. You've captured notes in a lecture, but after that first step, that's where ideamapper comes in, because you import that text to organise and structure your thoughts and how everything relates and make meaningful connections. In a lecture, you'll get a lot of new information and new learning, new concepts that you have to grapple with and mind map is a good way to create that structure to put in what you already know about structures and connect new learning to what you already know, so that's one of the benefits of visual mapping is to build on prior knowledge and build learning retention from making those connections. I hope that answers that question for Kerry. 

- Hopefully so, she says thanks. If you have any integration issues or questions, again, just pop us an email. If there's a particular program you'd like to use ideamapper with, now is probably the time to send that information over, because now is the time in our development office, the main focus is integrating as many outside softwares into ideamapper as possible. If you've got anything you like to use regularly or your students use regularly, send it over, because now is the time to bring that to light. 

- In terms of integration, if you've been a prior Inspiration user, you can import your old Inspiration mind maps. 

- I did mention that earlier, but one of the questions said, yes, we've used Inspiration before, something you may know is that Inspiration are no longer operating at the head office. They've licenced the remainder of the product, but there will be no further development, so we've partnered up and asked them if we can use their Inspiration importer. So, we've got an Inspiration importer now in our program. Any old Inspiration files that you've got, you can load them into ideamapper and continue using it and have all the added benefits of the customisation and split screen that ideamapper provides. 

- And an open invitation for anyone who has joined today, if you'd like to have a follow up one on one, I'm happy to run a short webinar with you to go back over today's points that Callum has covered and we look forward to conversations, because in my role, there's a whole toolkit of tools that our students require and visualisation is a very important part of that for a lot of students who struggle with language and rely heavily on visual learning. 

- Excellent. Well, thank you both for that. It's a brilliant presentation and sorry, I let you go on too long as well. I could see no questions coming in, but the last two or three slides took longer than I thought. Thank you for waking up so early and showing us the bright skies of the UK. It's absolutely brilliant. Do you have a slide? Did you want to put up a slide with your contact details before we finish up? 

- I do, yes. 

- Thank you, Jim, for managing the chatbox as well and for joining the presentation today. 

- Thank you. 

- And to everybody else…   

- This is me, callum@ideamapper.com. You've got Jim and both of us are happy to answer questions or organise further training. 

- Excellent. Thank you both and thank you everybody for attending and sorry it went over time and thank you to the captioner for their flexibility of staying on, as well. Have a great day, everybody. 

- Thanks, everyone.