10 Mind Mapping Strategies For Teachers

10 Mind Mapping Strategies For Teachers by Andrea Leyden, examtime.com The adoption of Mind Maps in teaching has grown recently due to the benefits of using Mind Maps to learn and the availability of free online mind mapping software. Teachers have recognized the value of using Mind Maps to engage students, encourage creativity and, most importantly, teaching how to learn rather simply memorizing content. How do teachers harness the full power of Mind Mapping? Mind Mapping Strategies for Teachers Pre-class: Planning: Whether its lesson plans, design of your class curriculum for the school year or planning an assignment timeline, Mind Maps give you a clear and visual overview of what needs to be covered.Organizing: If you’re the type of person who regularly jots down ideas and thoughts, Mind Maps are the perfect tool to create structure and organization of a topic. In-class: Teaching: Online Mind Maps can be used in class to brainstorm and generate discussions. Outside class:

10 Fantastic mapping websites! The days of foldable paper maps are numbered but the world wide web is opening up the potential of maps by offering an amazing variety of cool websites that teachers should take the time to explore. Below are ten great mapping sites for you to use in the classroom. History Pin is an online collection of photographs, videos, audio files, and text that have been shared by people from around the world. Their tag line is "a global community collaborating around history." Users can post their documents or search a map to find things in their area or search by collection, channel, and project. 2- Overlap Maps Overlap Maps is a website by Sunflower Education that allows you to compare the sizes of nations, states, bodies of water, man made features and objects from nature with each other. Mapping History contains hundreds animated and interactive maps from key events in the history's of the United States, Europe, Latin America, and Africa.

Développer le travail collaboratif dans et hors la classe avec l'application web de mindmapping Mind42 Au collège Albert Samain de Roubaix les élèves ont maintenant l'habitude d'utiliser les cartes mentales et les cartes conceptuelles dans divers situations de travail aussi bien pour l'écrit que pour l'oral. La grande majorité du temps les enseignants font produire aux élèves des cartes heuristiques papier-crayons. Lorsque l'usage de l'outil numérique semble plus pertinent le logiciel Freeplane est utilisé. Cependant le travail asynchrone et à distance est difficilement possible, d'où le recours à une application web de mindmapping : Mind42.com. (tutoriel en français à disposition à la fin de l'article). Le choix de l'application de cartes mentales Mind42 s'est fait en fonction de sa simplicité d'usage aussi bien pour la réalisation des cartes heuristiques que pour la gestion des différents paramètres ( travail collaboratif, publication, ou exportation en différents formats). * Organiser ses idées à plusieurs et à distance *Baliser une recherche d'informations sur internet: