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. They hold information in a format that your mind finds easy to remember and quick to review. They help you to make associations easily. And if you find out more information after you have drawn the main Mind Map, then you can easily add it in. You can refresh information by glancing at it. As such, they engage much more of your brain in the process of assimilating and connecting facts, compared with conventional notes.
So how to draw a mindmap?
Start at the centre of your blank page.Imagine you want to learn the vocabulary related to cinema (as my own slide below). So your central concept is cinema, then draw branches that converge to the central theme, for example, cast, films,... and then connect subbranches to this, for example to films: action, adventure, love....
and so and so and your mindmap builds and builds and your language learning gets better and better. Remember
have one word per branch,
use images
and symbols (even if you are not an artist) and use colours Watch and listen to Tony Buzan, the man who has popularized mindmaps, have a look at my first attempt and try to draw your own.
Mindmap Cinema
View more OpenOffice presentations from rrrosaco.
And read this interesting article about mindmaps and dyslexic people
1 comment:
Is very interesting this article, and I thing that is necesary to put it in practise
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