Archive for the ‘Learning’ Category
Online Mind-Mapping Tool
Uber-blog Lifehacker loves online tools, especially if they allow collaboration. In one of today’s posts, they’re reviewing a new Mind-Mapping tool called Mind42.
Like all good Web 2.0 tools, it’s advertised as “beta”, and Tony Buzan wouldn’t recognize its output as a Mind Map, but it looks really handy anyway.
An Alternative to Mind Mapping
I’d never heard of Rico Clusters before reading this great article on lifehack.org. it appears to be a great way to brainstorm and organize one’s thoughts, and with far less effort than Mind Mapping.
What is a Rico Cluster? Author Dustin Wax writes:
Rico clustering is a brainstorming tool that emphasizes the connection between left-brain openness and connection-making and right-brain verbalization and ordering. Although it is intended primarily as a writing tool, it can also be applied to teaching — and [Dr. Gabrielle] Rico herself has written about its use as a therapeutic tool, as well.
It looks interesting. I’ll have to try it on.