What is Coggle about?It's about mapping an idea - your truly great idea. Unfortunately most of us don’t have all the details figured out yet. We need input and inspiration from those around us. We're not even sure how we're going to explain the great ideas to others so they can help us develop our ideas. At this point many of us would go old school and create a written outline that would bullet points to explain our ideas; that explanation and its relationship to something that could change the direction of a project.
Or...you could use an online mind mapping tool to deliver a colorful representation of your ideas that the reader can follow through the use of color and indirect relationships of the idea details. This is what coggle can do for you. You can break out your idea into color coded branches, laying out items onto a virtual space. You can put related items close to each other, and provide visual links to represent dependancies. Even better, you can invite others to join into your virtual space to edit and comment. |
Step 1: Create a Mindmap for Yourself
What exactly is Mind Mapping & how would I use it in a classroom?Leonardo DaVinci was actually the original mind mapper. He used the process of laying out an idea in a more visual format many centuries ago. In the 20th century a man named Tony Buzan developed its use in a more mainstream fashion. He explains a Mind Map as "a powerful graphic technique which provides a universal key to unlock the potential of the brain." Its purpose is go after a variety of learning styles such as – word, image, number, logic, rhythm, color and spatial awareness. Mind mapping pulls all of these styles into one place - like your brain is being duplicated onto the page. Buzan was all about doing this before the explosion of webtools for mapping. If you'd like to hear more please watch the video below.
Article: How to Use Mind Mapping?
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Assignment #1(Click on image above for website and tutorial.)
This assignment is all about you. Taking an idea you have for a lesson, any lesson, or personal project, and implementing the use of a mind map to help you create and expand your ideas then generate your final product.
Here is how it works:
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Step 2: Adjust a Lesson using Mind MappingNow that you've created a mind map for yourself you have a better grasp of how the tool works and possibilities for application in the classroom - ANY subject.
Below find two examples of Coggle maps - one for distributions in math and one for a study of energy in a science class.
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Assignment #2
Check out other lessons for even more ideas on the G+ community for Coggle and others - it's sort of like an upscale Pinterest.
https://plus.google.com/communities/104446278465945149318
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