For clients that need to access SpiderScribe maps, without Flash, here is the link to open them as image files:
https://www.spiderscribe.net/app/noflash.php/
For Business and EDU accounts, just add “/app/noflash.php” to your URL.
Today Adobe stopped Flash player from working in any browser.
You will be able to run Flash only if you did not update your browser lately.
We are researching ways for our users to run Flash, to be able to access their SpiderScribe maps.
At the same time, we are developing a non-Flash version of SpiderScribe. We hope to have an alpha version, stripped down to the main features, in the near future.
This month, we are updating our Privacy Policy to make it easier for you to understand what information we collect about you and why we collect it.
Nothing is changing to how your information is processed. We reviewed our data collecting and protecting procedures and improved the way we describe our practices and how we explain the options you have to update, manage, export, and delete your data.
These updates are related to the new data protection regulations coming into effect in the European Union.
Please read the updated Privacy Policy and Terms of Service in full. By using our services on or after May 24, 2018, you will be agreeing to the revisions.
Tutorful just included SpiderScribe in their updated for 2018 list of The 90 Hottest EdTech Tools According to Education Experts. You can check the full list here.
Is your map collection getting out of control? We have a solution for you — now you can organize maps into folders!
Latest features include:
- create folders and sub-folders
- drag-and-drop maps and folders to organize them
- Copy/Cut/Paste maps (CTRL+C/+X/+V keyboard shortcuts also supported)
- Multi-select maps and mass delete/duplicate maps and folders (CTRL/SHIFT+select shortcuts are also supported)
We hope you will like the new features!
We updated the printing functionality for maps to allow a better control. It also fixed the printing issues in Chrome.
“CHICAGO – The American Association of School Librarians (AASL) announced its 2015 list of Best Apps for Teaching & Learning at the American Library Association (ALA) Annual Conference in San Francisco. The list of 25 apps provides technology resources for school librarians and their teacher collaborators. Now in its third year, the list is considered the “best of the best” by AASL.”
We are proud that SpiderScribe Jr. iPad app made it into the list, under the category Organization & Management.
Our scribers kept asking us for more stencil background colors for some time now. We have been avoiding it for their own sake – remember the ugly emails when too many color choices were introduced? But today we finally gave up and expanded the number of colors for backgrounds considerably, matching the range that was available only for text colors before. Now you can create all kind of combinations between text and background colors. But please, use your new acquired powers with caution!
We are offering now a SpiderScribe group plan specifically for academic institutions. It packs all the benefits of the Business plan, but for a lower price.
Its benefits:
- One central SpiderScribe team location with a way to manage all the students in one place
- Larger shared disk space for files
- Unlimited private maps
This group plan is ideal for a class or a whole grade as the number of users is not limited.
Did you ever want to draw the mind maps on your screen, by outlining the stencil shapes and the connecting lines, as you would do on a whiteboard with a marker? Now you can!
Check the new Drawing mode we just introduced – a fun, alternative way to work on your mind maps. Simply draw a shape of a stencil – round one for the text (it does not have to be perfect), rectangular shape for a file and a triangle for a picture – and the stencil will be added to your screen. You can also draw lines to connect stencils or cross out connectors and stencils to delete them. Give it a try!