One of the presentations that I made this week was about having students create videos to demonstrate their knowledge of a topic. In that presentation one of the points that I stress is the need for students to create outlines of their videos before moving onto the technical aspects of constructing a video. Here are some tools for creating outlines and mind maps to plan video projects, podcasts, or essays.
MindMeister brings the concept of mind mapping to the web, using its facilities for real-time collaboration to allow truly global brainstorming sessions. Real-time, synchronous sessions across the web.
A web-based mapping application that actually provides more than just simple mapping capabilities...it's surprisingly polished and well-behaved...he best of the three web-based mind mapping applications I've seen so far.