How To Mind Mapping

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Mind MappingA practical guide


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Aims

To find out how your brain likes to learn

To see how mind maps compare to normalwritten notes

To make your first mind map

To show how you can use mind maps


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How Mind Maps Are Different To

Traditional Note Taking


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Linear Vs Organic

Traditional note taking is done in what we call aLINEAR fashion, that is, in lines just like thesesentences!

All languages are written in lines. Most, like

ours, are in lines from left to right.


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Linear V Organic

Other languages are written in straight linesfrom right to left


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Linear V Organic

Some are even in vertical lines read from top tobottom


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Linear V Organic

The troubles is, that the brain does not work in

straight lines The brain works as a series of links,connections and associations

When you only work in straight lines you not

only fail to make the most of your potential, youonly use half of your brain.


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Linear V Organic

Mind maps are mental maps, set up exactly as

your brain is set up, using links, pictures, colourand associations


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Ready?


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FRUITCLOSE YOUR EYES NOW!


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Our brains work with sensory imageswithappropriate links and associationsradiatingfrom them

Our brains use words to trigger these images andassociations


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How to Mind Map!

Now its your time to try some mind mapping!


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Resources

A3/A4 blank paper

Colours


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7 steps to make mind map

1. Start in the CENTRE of a blank page turnedsideways (landscape)

- Freedom to spread out in all directions

2. Use an IMAGE or PICTURE for your central

idea- An image is worth of thousand words and helpsyou use your imagination


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3. Use COLORS through out

- Colours are as exciting to your brain as are

images

4. CONNECT your MAIN BRANCHES to the

central IMAGE and connect your second- andthird-level branches to the first and secondlevels, etc

- Our brain works by ASSOCIATION


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5. Make your branches CURVED rather thanstraight-lined

- Straight line is boring to your brain

6. Use ONE KEY WORD PER LINE

- Single key words give your Mind Map morepower and flexibility

7. Use IMAGES throughout


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The Benefits of Mind Mapping

Uses the wholebrain

Matches the way inwhich the brain learns


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The Benefits of Mind Mapping

Creative

allows ideas to develop easier can easily be added to

Economic

- saves 90% of the time of writing in

sentences

- can be reread very quickly

- whole topics on a single page


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How can you use Mind Maps?

Note taking

when taking rough notes when theteacher is talking

when you make neat notes in your book

Creative writing

to develop your ideas before you start

writing


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How can you use Mind Maps?

Essays / Reports Make each branch a separate

paragraph. Plan everything outbefore you start

Revision revise whole topics at once

Giving speeches use one mind map to give a whole,

wide ranging speech


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Mind Map can help you in manyways

Be more creative

Save time Solve problems

Concentrate

Organize and clarify your

thinking

Remember better

Study faster and moreefficiently

Make studying a breeze

See the whole picture


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Will I remember mind maps? Not without some effortYoull remember mind maps if you...

make them colourful

use pictures whenever you can

review them regularly


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