{"id":6355,"date":"2012-07-08T20:58:09","date_gmt":"2012-07-09T03:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522may12\/?p=6355"},"modified":"2012-07-08T20:58:09","modified_gmt":"2012-07-09T03:58:09","slug":"mind-maps-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522may12\/2012\/07\/08\/mind-maps-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Mind Maps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;line-height: 115%;font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'\">Visual Intensive learning is a part of my every day lessons in teaching K-12.<span>\u00a0 <\/span>Mind maps are great tools and I try to use lots of different colours and photos when presenting my mind map for a lesson.<span>\u00a0 <\/span>It allows for a greater understanding of the diagram with the age learners I deal with.<span>\u00a0 <\/span><span>\u00a0<\/span>I find that students are easily distracted, get bored quickly and certainly do not like to write a lot of notes and so mind mapping certainly makes my job a little easier and learning a little less complex. <span>\u00a0<\/span>Personally, mind mapping assist me in studying and organizing my information even before I present my work in a 2000 word essay form.<span>\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;line-height: 115%;font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'\"><span>\u00a0<\/span>I appreciate the fact that mind mapping diagrams are used to represent words, tasks, ideas or other items relating to a central key word or idea.<span>\u00a0 <\/span>A few of the biggest advantages of mind mapping are that they help you to take notes, brainstorm complex problems and think creatively.<span>\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>I find that mind map\/concept map is a great tool for brainstorming in a constructivist classroom as well as it engages the students collaboratively!<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Thanks Group 9 for an awesome week and enlightening me further on other mind mapping tools!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;line-height: 115%;font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'\">~ Shawn<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Visual Intensive learning is a part of my every day lessons in teaching K-12.\u00a0 Mind maps are great tools and I try to use lots of different colours and photos when presenting my mind map for a lesson.\u00a0 It allows for a greater understanding of the diagram with the age learners I deal with.\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12736,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[518106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-week-09"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522may12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522may12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522may12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522may12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12736"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522may12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6355"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522may12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6355\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6356,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522may12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6355\/revisions\/6356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522may12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522may12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522may12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}