My turn taking a coffee morning this morning. On the subject of mindmapping. So I recycled much of what the students got on Monday.

With a couple of tweaks. Firstly I had to work harder on presenting the positive uses for all the linear nay sayers I had (two vocal ones), and second I tried to give a practical demo of why they work by in effect running two PowerPoints simultaneously. Boring bullet point types slides interleaved with much more graphical image based ones. I warned them at the start there would be something to look out for with the slides and then quizzed them at the end. No one had particularly noticed but the point became apparent when I asked them to think about which ones they remembered. Even the 'linear' folk who weren't into the connectivity, colours and sketches of a mindmap got the message. I think.

It was a fun session anyway and everyone joined in with having a go at a map or two.