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My First Mind Map

9/15/2010

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This week's assignment in our Emerging Media class: create a mind map with – well, what else, emerging media as its center. This was a humbling experience. Figuring out this tool wasn't easy. But maybe it's not me. Maybe it's the tool! Seems at least a couple of my Emerging Media classmates didn't like MindMeister.com. For our Craft of Digital Storytelling class, the assignment is to create a mind map to promote the Marquette Neighborhood Health Center. Me and a classmate are going to try Mind42.com. I'll let you know if that turns out to be any easier or better.

For now, however, please click here to view my first mind map. Please let me know what you think.

And for those wanting to know more about mind maps, these four paragraphs are from Wikipedia:

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 to studying and organizing information, solving problems, making decisions, and writing.

The elements of a given mind map are arranged intuitively according to the importance of the concepts, and are classified into groupings, branches, or areas, with the goal of representing semantic or other connections between portions of information. Mind maps may also aid recall of existing memories.

By presenting ideas in a radial, graphical, non-linear manner, mind maps encourage a brainstorming approach to planning and organizational tasks. Though the branches of a mindmap represent hierarchical tree structures, their radial arrangement disrupts the prioritizing of concepts typically associated with hierarchies presented with more linear visual cues. This orientation towards brainstorming encourages users to enumerate and connect concepts without a tendency to begin within a particular conceptual framework.

The mind map can be contrasted with the similar idea of concept mapping. The former is based on radial hierarchies and tree structures denoting relationships with a central governing concept, whereas concept maps are based on connections between concepts in more diverse patterns.
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Colleen Herrmann link
1/20/2011 02:59:15 am

The concept of a mindmap is very interesting and something I've never thought about before. The idea of being able to document brainstorming while organizing them in a certain matter is great and this could possibly be a good tool for students who wish to map out ideas or concepts for a project.

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Jodi Denk
1/23/2011 01:47:58 am

I've never heard of mind maps before so this is entirely new to me. I liked the visual element of something like this as opposed to just seeing a bullet pointed list. I found the + and - buttons to be useful in focusing the eye on certain topics and I think they could be added to the specific examples to give a description of what exactly do. Interesting tool!

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Joshua Arter
1/23/2011 10:05:59 am

@Colleen Hermann I agree. The first thing I thought about was how students could utilize this.

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