Idea Mapping

As a result of some lengthy discussions with the participants of my December 7-8, 2009 public Idea Mapping Workshop in Florida, I have a new Facebook page. So many students are either struggling with learning and retaining information for their studies OR they think studying is just plain boring. Idea Mapping and mind mapping are [...]

This posting is the second in what is going to be a fascinating experiment this year with students at Luther College in Decorah, Iowa. Last week’s posting first introduced this series. Now let’s put it into context.
Dr. Tim Schweizer teaches “Principles of Management”. He felt like teaching Idea Mapping to his students was such an [...]

Dr. Tim Schweizer is a Professor of Management at Luther College in Decorah, IA. He is also a Certified Trainer: Six Thinking Hats™, Lateral Thinking™ (Edward de Bono tools), and Former Vice President, Altshuller Institute for TRIZ Studies. One of the courses he is currently teaching is Principles of Management.  It is required for [...]

I first introduced Melinda Dang in a December 2008 posting. Since then Melinda has contributed numerous idea maps to this blog on topics like using Idea Maps to study for AP Physics, Spanish, studying for the SAT’s and other subjects. These examples are the idea maps she created to study for her SAT exam and [...]

I was looking through some of my idea mapping examples that had been created by students and realized that I had not shared these examples previously. They date back to April of 2005 when I taught a workshop for 126 business owners who were part of an organization called “Institute for Entrepreneurial Excellence” which is [...]

I first introduced Melinda Dang in a December 2008 posting. Since then Melinda has contributed numerous idea maps to this blog on topics like using Idea Maps to study for AP Physics, Spanish, studying for the SAT’s and other subjects. These examples are the idea maps she created to finish out the year and study [...]

Melinda Dang shares another one of her AP Advanced Physics idea maps. She is in the 11th grade and has been using idea mapping to study for physics, Spanish, and SAT vocabulary. Search on her name to see more examples from Melinda.

The 11th grader Melinda Dang is back with more idea maps for studying. She was first featured in the December 11, 2008 posting, again December 13, and most recently December 19. Today she is sharing more of her maps that she is creating for her school work.
The top two maps are for her AP Physics [...]

I first featured idea maps from Melinda Dang on December 11, 2008 and then again on December 13, 2008. She is in the 11th grade and is the daughter of Steve Dang who was one of my Boeing workshop participants in October. If she let’s me I’m going to follow her progress right on into [...]

Here are two more idea maps from Melinda Dang as she studied for her AP Physics class. For full details see the previous post.