Web-Based Mind Mapping

Web-Based Mind Mapping
Robin Good writes enthusiastically about the benefits of web-based mind-mapping, with a special focus on MindMeister (which is free in its basic version). Robin also includes links to other mind-mapping tools. The mind maps that I create are most often done with a pencil and a yellow pad, but there are advantages in using a shareable, web-based tool such as MindMeister. From a very, very broad perspective all online educational resources can be viewed as variations of a mind or topic map. _____JH

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"Web-Based Mind-Mapping: Outline, Plan and Brainstorm Ideas Together With MindMeister. If you are looking to find an effective way to collaborate, brainstorm, visualize and plan ideas collaboratively online, much beyond what voice and text chat can do, it is the time you give a good try to the mind-mapping experience.
 
Thanks to unforgettable MasterNewMedia editor Antonella Pastore, who first covered mindmaps in 2004 (!), mindmaps have been on my radar for quite some time, but with the recent advent of online, collaboratively editable mindmaps the opportunities to reap significant benefit from these tools has just exploded.

The great thing about collaborative, web-based mind-maps is the ease with which you can visualize spatially while giving very precise text labels to ideas, tasks, projects and to the relationships between them. These two characteristics by themselves when mixed with ability to watch and edit in real-time the same visual map with others creates a truly effective, useful and memorable way of collaborating productively at a distance."

Facts About College Grants And More

Facts About College Grants And More
There are thousands of students out there who want to attend colleges because they are able to realize the benefits higher education could do to their future. However, not all of them could afford as going to college could be very expensive not only in terms of tuition alone but all the other expenses that accompanies it as well.

Wayne County news in brief: Man charged with murder in arson

A 25-year-old Belleville man was arraigned in 34th District Court in Romulus Thursday in connection with the Tuesday arson and death of an 89-year-old woman.

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The West as scapegoat

The modern definition of a scapegoat is similar to that of a fall guy, the one on whom blame is placed, deflecting the blame from the true culprit. Last night we saw the city of Mumbai go up in flames as Islamist terrorists sought out Westerners in the Indian city that most emulates the capitalist system that is both loathed and envied in the Muslim world. Islam is a system that promises or implies success in this world, allowing adherents to go out and take what they want, or their due, from Continue reading ...