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12 Mar 08

Mind Mapping by Tony Buzan - iMindMap™ Official Mind Map Software

  • The benefits of Mind Mapping are well known. It is used by millions of people across the world for a wide variety of activities from planning, organizing and learning to problem solving in settings ranging from educational, professional or just at home. It has been referred to as the ‘ultimate organizational thinking tool’. Mind Maps have a natural structure that represents the brain’s natural image-filled thinking processes and helps reinforce the ‘maps of thought’ in the brain. But what if these ‘maps of thoughts’ are even more disorganized than normal?

    Widely accepted characteristics of dyslexia include poor memory, trouble with focusing, planning, and organization. In general, tasks also take longer to carry out. However, with Mind Mapping these problems are eased. The colorful, symbolic and image related stature means that Mind Maps are less dense than text. The substantial lack of words creates an easier and more effective environment for the visual learner. Elaine Colliar, a Scottish accelerated-learning trainer states, “Dyslexia is often likened to a circuit board where one component is missing, therefore they have to devise a new strategy to wire that circuit board completely, and Mind Mapping can assist dyslexics as it consist solely of images".     - thinkingtool on 2008-03-12
  • nd Mapping for Dyslexics

Tony Buzan's Mind Mapping - The Ultimate Thinking Tool - iMindMap™ Official Mind Map Software

  • The basic learning principles of Mind Mapping have been around for centuries, and have been used by some of the greatest creative genius’ and most influential individuals in history such as Leonardo Da Vinci, Galileo Galilei, Richard Feynman, William Blake and Albert Einstein. However, the term ‘Mind Mapping’ was not founded until the 1960s by Tony Buzan, a psychologist and leading expert in areas of the brain such as learning and memory. Today millions of people around the world use Mind Mapping for a wide variety of actions ranging from simply becoming better planners or more confident public speakers, to aid problem solving on a much more substantial scale. - thinkingtool on 2008-03-12

Problem Solving with Tony Buzan's Mind Mapping - iMindMap™ Official Mind Map Software

  • Problem solving is one of the key skills required to be successful at work, but finding speedy and imaginative solutions to the challenges and difficulties that inevitably arise is not an easy task. When confronted with a problem, all too often, we try to ‘force’ our brain into coming up with a solution. Not only is this a poor way to resource our creativity but this approach can result in stress while our mind wrestles with the problem. Straining your brain in this way will not result in a satisfactory solution. Alternatively, Mind Mapping is a far more effective way to attain clarity and answers. It will help you view the problem as a positive challenge, an opportunity to demonstrate your skills and flex your creative muscles. - thinkingtool on 2008-03-12

Mind Mapping by Tony Buzan - iMindMap™ Official Mind Map Software

  • It is a far too common procedure for lecturers to prepare presentations with a few pages of notes made up of linear sentences. They stand up behind the podium and start to read, expecting their diligent audience to take ‘proper notes’. They drone on monotonously at a pace enabling their audience to copy their words. Drooping shoulders and heavy heads become more and more visible. Is this method actually doing any good?

    To summarize, no. Words alone are worthless in helping in understanding and remembering. Not only are they boring but they do not represent the brain’s naturally fluid nature. Presentations need to impart information in a form that is easily digested by the brain. The most effective presentation will include keywords, images, colors, visual rhythms, connections and associations. These are main aspects in triggering imagination, a key process in learning. But how do you achieve these in a presentation?     - thinkingtool on 2008-03-12

Mind Mapping by Tony Buzan - iMindMap™ Official Mind Map Software

  • If you are a full-time student or are studying from home, you probably make a lot of notes during your lectures and lessons and when reading your text books and course materials. Later you will almost certainly review these notes when preparing for an exam or when you have a written piece of work to do. - thinkingtool on 2008-03-12

Mind Mapping by Tony Buzan - iMindMap™ Official Mind Map Software

  • Memory can lead to the accomplishments of many astonishing feats. Take for example the story of Mozart visiting Rome in 1770, when he was 14, and listened to Allegri’s Miserere in the Sistine Chapel. The half-hour long piece of music was considered so special that the Vatican forbade its publication, but after the concert Mozart wrote down the entire piece of music from memory. Or more recently, memory champions have been setting world records which seem nothing short of miraculous to ordinary people. It is often assumed that such people must have extraordinary brains or are amazingly clever.

    In 2002 scientists put this assumption to the test and performed a range of tests on highly ranked memorizers at the World Memory Championships held annually. The tests revealed that the memory champions’ brains showed no differences to that of ordinary people. However, it was discovered that nine out of the ten memory champions were simply using a technique called ‘the method of Loci’, which dated back to ancient Greece. This method is based on location and imagination. It was therefore concluded that a good memory is simply a skill, and a skill that can be learned – at any age.     - thinkingtool on 2008-03-12

Mind Mapping by Tony Buzan - iMindMap™ Official Mind Map Software

  • The Mind Map is perfectly suited to innovative thinking as it consumes all the skills commonly found with creativity, especially imagination, association of ideas and flexibility. Psychological research has identified several fundamental elements in creative thinking including: the use of colors, shapes, dimensions, unusual elements, the adjustment of conceptual positions and response to an emotionally appealing objects.

    Mind Mapping principles are a peripheral manifest of all of these defined categories: it is a peripheral manifest of the complete thinking process. The nearly identical nature of creative thinking and mnemonic (memory) principles confirms the Mind Map as the essential and natural tool for these forms of thoughts.     - thinkingtool on 2008-03-12

Mind Mapping by Tony Buzan - iMindMap™ Official Mind Map Software

  • Take a sheet of plain paper and some colored pens. Turn the page so it is in landscape position. In the centre of the page draw an image that personally represents being on holiday for you. Now label this image, for example, the destination of your holiday or simply ‘My holiday’. Always start in the middle of the page as this gives your thoughts freedom to spread out in all directions and for your brain to express itself more naturally and without being maintained in the boundaries found in linear note making. - thinkingtool on 2008-03-12

Improve Your Memory with Tony Buzan's Mind Mapping

  • Memory can lead to the accomplishments of many astonishing feats. Take for example the story of Mozart visiting Rome in 1770, when he was 14, and listened to Allegri’s Miserere in the Sistine Chapel. The half-hour long piece of music was considered so special that the Vatican forbade its publication, but after the concert Mozart wrote down the entire piece of music from memory. Or more recently, memory champions have been setting world records which seem nothing short of miraculous to ordinary people. It is often assumed that such people must have extraordinary brains or are amazingly clever. - thinkingtool on 2008-03-12

Mind Mapping for Dyslexics

  • The benefits of Mind Mapping are well known. It is used by millions of people across the world for a wide variety of activities from planning, organizing and learning to problem solving in settings ranging from educational, professional or just at home. It has been referred to as the ‘ultimate organizational thinking tool’. Mind Maps have a natural structure that represents the brain’s natural image-filled thinking processes and helps reinforce the ‘maps of thought’ in the brain. But what if these ‘maps of thoughts’ are even more disorganized than normal? - thinkingtool on 2008-03-12

The Mind Map as a Creative Thinking Mechanism

  • The Mind Map is perfectly suited to innovative thinking as it consumes all the skills commonly found with creativity, especially imagination, association of ideas and flexibility. Psychological research has identified several fundamental elements in creative thinking including: the use of colors, shapes, dimensions, unusual elements, the adjustment of conceptual positions and response to an emotionally appealing objects. - thinkingtool on 2008-03-12

Improve Your Study Skills with Tony Buzan's Mind Mapping - Tips in Note Taking

  • If you are a full-time student or are studying from home, you probably make a lot of notes during your lectures and lessons and when reading your text books and course materials. Later you will almost certainly review these notes when preparing for an exam or when you have a written piece of work to do. - thinkingtool on 2008-03-12

Creating Your First Mind Map

  • Firstly you need to decide on the topic in question, it is important to remember that there is no limit to what you can Mind Map, ranging from university lecture notes, preparing a speech / presentation or simply in organizing a party. In this case we are going to Mind Map going on holiday. The process of Mind Mapping can be split into three levels. - thinkingtool on 2008-03-12

Tony Buzan's Mind Mapping - The Ultimate Thinking Tool

  • The basic learning principles of Mind Mapping have been around for centuries, and have been used by some of the greatest creative genius’ and most influential individuals in history such as Leonardo Da Vinci, Galileo Galilei, Richard Feynman, William Blake and Albert Einstein. However, the term ‘Mind Mapping’ was not founded until the 1960s by Tony Buzan, a psychologist and leading expert in areas of the brain such as learning and memory. - thinkingtool on 2008-03-12

Mind Mapping by Tony Buzan - iMindMap™ Official Mind Map Software

  • iMindMap is the official software from Tony Buzan inventor of Mind Mapping. Try for free. Buzan's Mind Maps are used by over 250 million people for clarity of thinking, brainstorming, learning, presentations and goal setting. - thinkingtool on 2008-03-12

Mind Mapping by Tony Buzan - iMindMap™ Official Mind Map Software

  • D&T is a subject that attracts all levels of learners. It requires the more able to be independent learners, and calls for students to be well organised, particularly as the coursework requirement is 60%. This coursework follows the Design process and entails that students complete a lot of folder work. - thinkingtool on 2008-03-12

D&T and Mind Mapping

  • D&T is a subject that attracts all levels of learners. It requires the more able to be independent learners, and calls for students to be well organised, particularly as the coursework requirement is 60%. - thinkingtool on 2008-03-12
11 Mar 08

Improve Your Study Skills with Tony Buzan's Mind Mapping - Tips in Note Taking on Squidoo

  • If you are a full-time student or are studying from home, you probably make a lot of notes during your lectures and lessons and when reading your text books and course materials. - thinkingtool on 2008-03-11
  • Mind Mapping is an excellent diagrammatic way of organizing key ideas or concepts from lesson notes or textbooks. You simply take the essential elements from linear material (textbooks or your lesson notes) to generate your Mind Map. In this way, you can capture all your notes on one page / screen, enabling you to see the interconnections of certain ideas. What's more, Mind Mapping encourages you to utilize the power of images to add emphasis and association to your notes. Using visuals in this way enhances the memory's storing and recalling capabilities as well as increasing aesthetic pleasure! - thinkingtool on 2008-03-11
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