Mind maps

- abril 03, 2021

The next post is about Mind maps.

Do you know what it is?

Mind maps are a diagram used to represent words, ideas, tasks, readings, drawings, or other concepts linked and arranged radically through a key word or a central idea. Mind maps are a very effective method for extracting and memorizing information.

In In our class we can use it so that we can begin to introduce the topic of the subject or project to our students because it is so visual and easy to organize the new terms and ideas.

There are many programs to make mindmaps to project them in class such as Mindmeister, Creately, SpiderScribe or goconqr. In my case I have chosen goconqr for the following reasons:

- It is free.

- You can download the final result as a .PNG image.

- You can project it anywhere with this link.

- Easy and simple.

- You can incorporate images. I have extracted mine from pixabay .

But on the other hand the main drawback is that the website forces you to make your content public to anyone in the community, if it is content that you only want to have you must subscribe to one of the premium plans offered by the website so you can do more things like privatise posts, be ad-free or have more storage space.

https://www.goconqr.com/es-ES/mindmap/29873002/Climate-in-Europe

The chosen topic is Climate in Europe, a 6th grade topic. The following one I have made is this:

But at the end of the day, this resource will be used to show the students the topic and little else. That's why I don't see the fact that it is public as a disadvantage, as it can help other colleagues who want to work with the same subject.

On the other hand, for the development of the subject we will use other techniques, as I will show you in the next post.

Greetings and I hope you are having a great Easter.