COLLABORATIVE MIND MAP

[Marlon Barrios Solano]

Create a collaborative mind map of what you consider relevant: concepts, reflections, connections, links, etc. This is a co-creation activity  that we suggest to follow  contribute after every session.

The system allows revisions.

http://mind42.com/public/7bd721a8-5f86-4d60-8ab0-93c620febbc2

Mind map definition: Graphical technique for visualizing connections between several ideas or pieces of information. Each idea or fact is written down and then linked by lines or curves to its major or minor (or following or previous) idea or fact, thus creating a web of relationships. 

(source: BusinessDictionary.com)

 

In a mind map, information is structured in a way that mirrors how the brain functions - in a branched rather than linear manner. Here’s an example of a mind map in the form of Visual Thesaurus, which shows synonyms in a graphical representation:

Why is this important?

Everyone has their own personal knowledge web, connecting everything we know about objects together; for example, red is connected to fire, blood, love, etc. If one section of the networking models is activated, the surrounding links are activated. Our experiences shape these connections and everybody’s ‘semantic network models’ are different. Collaborative mind mapping takes a topic and links everything we know about this topic together.

 

Objective: The purpose of the mind map assignment is to learn how to visualize information by drawing the connections between information, while collaboratively building our own semantic network model.

1. Invitation to collaborate on the mind map - 

Check your email for an invitation to collaborate on the mind map. If you cannot find it, please check your spam folder. If it’s still not there, go to http://mind42.com/mindmap/7bd721a8-5f86-4d60-8ab0-93c620febbc2 and fill out the form to request another invite to be sent.

2. Collaborate on the mind map -

Once you’ve received the invitation to collaborate on the mind map, go to http://mind42.com/ and create a username and log in. Once you’ve logged in, go to http://mind42.com/mindmap/7bd721a8-5f86-4d60-8ab0-93c620febbc2 and click Edit to view and edit the mind map.

 

Here’s a video tutorial that goes through the basics of mind mapping in Mind42.com:

http://youtu.be/Ts0tOoi3KIE?t=1m

and here’s a guide to the Mind Map Editor interface:

http://mind42.com/guide/editor

[Monika Dorniak]

Interesting research page about the history of  the Internet and it...