Sunday, June 27, 2010

Mind Mapping




What Is Mind Mapping?: "A mind map is a graphical way to represent ideas and concepts. It is a visual thinking tool that helps structuring information, helping you to better analyze, comprehend, synthesize, recall and generate new ideas."



"A mind map is a diagram used to represent words, ideas, tasks, or other items linked to and arranged around a central key word or idea. Mind maps are used to generate, visualize, structure, and classify ideas, and as an aid in study, organization, problem solving, decision making, and writing."



These two quotes summarise what a mind map is and does but what are the benefits of mind mapping?:

•Presenting information
•Gaining insight on complex subjects
•Jogging your creativity

How Do We Create A minmap: There Are Three Simple Steps:

•Start in the middle of a blank page, writing or drawing the idea you intend to develop. I would suggest that you use the page in landscape orientation.
•Develop the related subtopics around this central topic, connecting each of them to the center with a line.
•Repeat the same process for the subtopics, generating lower-level subtopics as you see fit, connecting each of those to the corresponding subtopic.

Final Thoughts:

Mind maps are nice and simple to create and are very useful as they can jog your memory of things you may have forgotten about.

Links:

http://litemind.com/what-is-mind-mapping/



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mind_map






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