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