Supercharging Your Mind Mapping: Part 1

(submitted by Matt Tanguay of FluentBrain.com)

You know how to add color, relationships, boundaries, numbering, images, notes, attached files and hyperlinks. You might even have discovered the icons, and some extra mind mapping techniques. That is great, and you’ve made outstanding progress.

So how do you go to the next level? How can you supercharge your mind mapping?  If we compare your current proficiency with walking, how do you start running?

This is what this series is all about.

READ MORE: http://fluentbrain.com/supercharging-your-mind-mapping-part-1/

Visual for Food Matching

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From: Lynn Kearny
To: "visual practitioners exchanging Ideas"
Date: Saturday, October 22, 2011 6:20:04 PM GMT-0700
Subject: [Ifvpgeneral] Cool Tool - Visual for Food Matching

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I thought you'd all like this. It's all words, but patterned in a beautiful and useful way. It shows what foods go well with what other foods, organizing them in large categories (e.g., root vegetables) and raying out from specific examples (e.g. beets) to show what flavors go well with them. Very cute! Someone could have fun doing a version with images. Link: http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/visualizations/taste-buds/

It's the work of David McCandless, who has done a wonderful book visualizing all kinds of data - and creating understandability. THe link lets you look at many of his data visualizations if you check them out.

Here is a link to his TED talk:

Link: http://www.ted.com/talks/david_mccandless_the_beauty_of_data_visualization.html


Lynn Kearny
lkearny@sprintmail.com

Teach Students Visual Note Taking

Students can learn how to take visual notes with just a bit of instruction and practice. Once they know how to do it they should be encouraged to take visual notes in all of their classes as well as activities outside of school. Use visual note taking as a warm up or fill-in at the end of class.

The first step is to encourage students to carry a sketchbook. A small hardbound sketchbook is standard and will last them most of the school year. Fine line markers and pencils are good tools to use. Colored markers or even crayons can be used to add color.

Have students practice doing hand-drawn letters in a variety of styles. This is a skill they will find useful all of their lives.

See how many types of bullets, connectors and frames they can find or imagine. They should try to select appropriate ones to go with the content. Bullets usually refer to black circles (like bullet holes) but can be open squares, stars, hearts or anything that works at a small scale. Comic books use a lot of different frames (thought balloons, jagged "crash" frames, speech balloons, rectangles, squares, ovals, etc.)

andDESIGN is the online magazine for people interested in Design Education in K-12 schools

(via Jamie Saunders in VizThink)

Sunni Brown @ TED: Doodlers, Unite!






From TED.com: Studies show that sketching and doodling improve our comprehension — and our creative thinking. So why do we still feel embarrassed when we’re caught doodling in a meeting? Sunni Brown says: Doodlers, unite! She makes the case for unlocking your brain via pad and pen.

Miller-McCune Sketchnote Cover

About the magazine:

Miller-McCune, a national nonprofit magazine and Web site that promise, “Smart journalism. Real solutions.” It could have been a quick and quixotic failure — magazines everywhere were shrinking or folding — but McCune pledged to keep hers afloat for at least five years. Entering its third year, Miller-McCune prints 100,000 magazines and averages 150,000 online viewers every month. The magazine has received national recognition in its short life, including being named one of Magazine Industry News’ “hottest launches” and one of Library Journal‘s 10 Best New Magazines in 2008.

(Spotted by Perrin Ireland)