Tools for Knowledge ManagementMind Mapping |
First we shape our tools, then our tools shape us.
Marshall Mc Luhan |
| WHAT | Mind Mapping is a visualizing technique primarily for structuring and codifying knowledge. With aid of Mind Mapping ideas are graphically collected, structured resp. organized, and valuated. |
| WHY | This tool aims at collecting ideas shortly in a team within a problem domain or topic.
Simultaneously the ideas structured in main and sub ideas are ordered and graphed. The learning process of a group or team is supported by the visual representation of the ideas in the form of branches as well as by the structured and step-by-step generation and documentation of the ideas. Mind Maps stimulate the imagination and facilitate bearing the ideas in remembrance. |
| HOW | Mind mapping starts with a central word or concept, around the central word you draw
the 5 to 10 main ideas that relate to that word. You then take each of those child words and
again draw the 5 to 10 main ideas that relate to each of those words. A visual representation of the ideas emerges step by step. If there is a relationship between two different ideas one may connect them by means of arrows. |
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| References | Mind Mapping FAQ.
http://members.ozemail.com.au/~caveman/Creative/Mindmap/mindmapfaq.html, fetch date: 14th Jul 2003.
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Last update 14th Jul 2003 |