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Visual Thinking: Put Brainstorming on Steroids with Mind Mapping

Visual Thinking: Put Brainstorming on Steroids with Mind Mapping. Michael Kieley March 23, 2011 For audio call Toll Free 1 - 888-886-3951 and use PIN/code 301997. Housekeeping. Maximize your CCC Confer window. Phone audio will be in presenter-only mode.

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Visual Thinking: Put Brainstorming on Steroids with Mind Mapping

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  1. Visual Thinking: Put Brainstorming on Steroids with Mind Mapping • Michael Kieley • March 23, 2011 • For audio call Toll Free 1-888-886-3951 • and use PIN/code 301997

  2. Housekeeping • Maximize your CCC Confer window. • Phone audio will be in presenter-only mode. • Ask questions and make comments using the chat window.

  3. Adjusting Audio • If you’re listening on your computer, adjust your volume using the speaker slider. • If you’re listening over the phone, click on phone headset. • Do not listen on both computer and phone.

  4. Saving Files & Open/close Captions • Save chat window with floppy disc icon • Open/close captioning window with CC icon

  5. Emoticons and Polling • Raise hand and Emoticons • Polling options

  6. Visual Thinking: Put Brainstorming on Steroids with Mind Mapping • Michael Kieley

  7. Using Mind Maps for Learning Innovation • This presentation focuses on learning a graphic technique which allows one to gain an overview of a complex subject, and is also a method for rapid brainstorming. • Part 1 - a case study • Part 2 - defining creativity • Part 3 - a workshop in which mind maps are used as creative tools in the development of new learning experiences.

  8. Part One - case study:evolution of a class to a hybrid form

  9. My Story... • I’ve taught a class for years called Visual Thinking, which is focused on learning creativity skills, and understanding what is going on in Contemporary Art.

  10. My Story... • I go to a conference about online education (OTC10), which gets me very excited about adding cloud technologies to my face-to-face class. Visual Thinking

  11. My Story... • I am surprised at how many options I have, and most of them are free. http://www.blackboard.com/ http://www.techsmith.com/Camtasia http://www.cccconfer.org/index3.aspx http://audacity.sourceforge.net/ http://www.edustream.org/ http://www.jingproject.com/ http://oli.web.cmu.edu/openlearning/ http://www.onefortraining.org/ http://prezi.com/ http://www.profcast.com/public/index.php http://sakaiproject.org/ http://www.surveymonkey.com/ http://twitter.com/ http://www.vocaroo.com/ http://voicethread.com/

  12. My Story... • It looks like it will take me about 40 hours to sort through these options, and shift my class to a hybrid format. Visual Thinking

  13. My Story... • It takes 200 hours... Visual Thinking

  14. My Story... • I have to rethink everything, and sort between what is best done face-to-face, and what is better on line. Visual Thinking • The first thing to go are lectures, which I turn into podcasts and PDF’s.

  15. My Story... • I have a moment of euphoria, the first time I listen to my students VoiceThreads.

  16. I needed to see/think about many things simultaneously.

  17. I needed to make some choices.

  18. I need to be a brilliant innovator...

  19. My Story... • I realize that something I’ve taught my students for years, • mind mapping • will be the perfect way to: • • organize and select the best online technologies for my class. • • be an excellent way to brainstorm new project ideas. Visual Thinking

  20. Part Two - defining creativity, mind maps, and the process of brainstorming.

  21. What is creativity? • A mode of thinking that is playful, childlike, joyful, and GENERaTIVE. • It’s the opposite of being analytical, and rational. • It requires an environment of support and affirmation. • Lateral/generative thinking can not overlap with the Vertical/rational mode.

  22. What is brainstorming? • A generative flow state, in which the goal is to uncritically jot down as many possible solutions to a problem as possible. • Quantity of ideas matters much more than the initial quality of ideas. • Richness over Rightness

  23. Thinking in Pictures

  24. What is a mind map? • A mind map is a diagram used to organize words, ideas, and images, in a holistic, hierarchical form, in order to gain fresh perspectives.

  25. Establish a quota to accelerate ideation... • List • Grid • Map it’s not so much that I am smarter, it’s that I always begin immediately, and I have a huge trash can. -F.L.Wright

  26. Filling in a blank grid...

  27. Maps vs Lists Rather than just making a list of numerous ideas during brainstorming, a mind map mixes words and images, TURNING ON CREATIVE THINKING, in a loose and flexible process, that also allows one to glimpse the whole picture.

  28. Work flows... TO > hand drawn MindNode

  29. Work flows... Mobile App MindNode Pro on Mac

  30. What are they good for? • Mind maps are used to generate, visualize, structure, and classify ideas, and as an aid in study, organization, problem solving, and decision making.

  31. Part Three - learning to mind map

  32. Have you every mind mapped?

  33. Let’s draw a mind map!

  34. 5 steps... • Draw an oval with a key term. • Add curving limbs, radiating out from the central concept. • In block letters write a single word flowing along each limb. • Bifurcate: add smaller branches to each limb. • Use lots of color.

  35. Make a simple mind map... • On a piece of paper, draw an oval in the center. • Write the word “HAPPINESS,” in the oval. • Draw arcing branches outward from the oval, and along each branch write a general broad category of something that makes you happy. (Travel, exercise, learning, etc.)

  36. And branches... • And some branches to one of the main limbs of your map.

  37. What can you do with mind maps? • Gain an overview of a complex subject. • Map-storm: use this visual tool to accelerate creative thinking. Collaborate on the concept of innovation.

  38. Brainstorm efficiently. • Discover patterns and relationships between ideas. • Map a learning experience. • Plan a presentation. • Create a visual, hierarchical, holistic document with links to provide more detail on demand.

  39. FORCING Expansive Thinking • Adding blank nodes to a mind map establishes a quota of ideas for each branch of a subject.

  40. Trees grow by a process of bifurcation. So do ideas. • Blank nodes on a mind map establish a quota for new ideas.

  41. How ideas flow...

  42. Hybrid thinking...

  43. Ideate; then critique. • AVOID DESTRUCTIVE PRUNING WHICH HAPPEN WHEN WE MIX IDEATION/BRAINSTORMING WITH ANALYSIS AND CRITICISM

  44. Remaining open... Remain open to chance intrusions, happy accidents, serendipity.

  45. The (brainstorming) wisdom of crowds. • Diverse groups create broadened perspectives. • A safe environment, in which it’s O.K. to be a bit silly enhances the process.

  46. It helps to... Negative Thinking + Switch Off Analysis

  47. Mind map ‘apps’ • Mac • PC • Mobile Devices

  48. Resources + Links • Apps • Mindnode.com (free, pro, and iOS versions) • iMindMap (Tony Buzan, inc.) • Freemind (open, complex, a bit slow) • ThinkingSpace (Android) • Books • The MindMap Book • Mapping Inner Space

  49. MindNode on iDevices Demo

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