Todays input was all about collecting ideas in one place. How can we brainstorm collaboratively?
Brainstorming has been around for a long time. Tony Buzan has personally used mind mapping to great success for many years. He finds this the best way to collate ideas, theories and notes.
In class today we looked at the avaliable software to take this idea one stage further. We wanted to have all nine participants on a resource , sharing ideas.
The first programme we worked with was called plodder. This is a new website application which is still being tested. We experienced some problems as we were all logged on as the same user.
Next we used inspiration. This is a good programme which is avaliable within a lot of councils. There is also a childs version called Kidspiration.
Then mindmeister was the last online resource we tried out. This was better because we all logged on as seperate users.
The benefits of these resources are easy to see. Collaboration is a large key to success within the teaching profession. TES article. Since collaboration has been a focus within education Tony Buzan has renewed his ideals of how benefical mind mapping can be to lessons. here.
Curriculum for Excellence also promotes colaboration and working together this report shows how teachers, parents, services and children worked together to deliver health and wellbeing successfully.
I wonder if they used mind mapping at the start to collaborate ideas?
This other blog shows the benefits of mind mapping collaboratively
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