AFFORDANCES / BENEFITS
No installation
It's free
Share it with anyone
Edit it like Google Doc
Caters visual learners
Samples to choose from
It's also an app
CONTEXTS / USES
Brainstorming
Note-taking
Team projects (planning and division)
Presentations
Essay writing (generating ideas, arranging the flow)
Grammar explanations
Lexis building tasks
Test revision
Research papers
CONSTRAINTS
Can get clunky if big
Constricted to the format
You must be online
Premium features cost
Only 3 maps for free
One central theme only
Nothing else on the canvas
LEXICAL APPROACH
Downloadable
Use images
Add links
COLLABORATIVE
"collaborative activities in the class have a dual purpose. On one side, they promote language interaction among learners and maximum engagement with the task, and on the other, they have the important function of building a community of learning” (González‐Lloret, 2020, p.262)
VIDEO TUTORIAL
Multimodality