Monday, January 14, 2008

Thing #19 Mind Maps and Flow Charts

Thinking and the different ways we think is what we strive to teach our students every day. Mind maps and flow charts are another way to process our thoughts, another way we can analyze stories, word problems, writing, you name it. These online tools are great ways to help our kids analyze problems we set before them, in addition to paper/pencil tasks or software like Inspiration/Kidspiration.

When I was working with these websites, I chose bubbl.us first. It was easy to figure out and I think it would be easy to introduce to faculty and students. Then I shifted to Gliffy. Not so easy. I wish it had come with a user manual. I'm not sure it would easily transfer to an elementary campus, at least not without a lot of explanation. However, these online tools are great to know about and wonderful resources to have at hand, especially when software like Inspiration is not readily available.

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