Archive for the 'Education' Category

Major update to Topicscape Student Edition (the free one)

Saturday, January 2nd, 2010

At long last, Topicscape’s free Student Edition has been upgraded to version 2.0, with many ease-of-use enhancements, incorporating some of the elements first seen in Topicscape Pro 2.0 :-

Halo menu and associated dynamic help
Innovative swinging panels
Topic footprints
More Association line choices
Hotkeys on menus
Neighborhood views
Customize the Home view position
‘Meaning of structure’ button
New demo covering multi-parent topics
Verified on Windows 7

Here are the What’s New page and the main page of Topicscape SE information where you can download it.

Topicscape SE is aimed at students wanting an easy and attractive way to record their web research and revision notes, and prepare homework and term papers. It can import from FreeMind and export back to FreeMind.

It may not have the 2D/3D, tagging, import/export juicyness of Topicscape Pro 2.5, but it’s a useful tool for study . . . and it’s fun.

Oh, and did I mention it’s free? . . . and always will be.

Roy

Posted in Announcements, Education, Topicscape, mindmapping software | No Comments »

Cruising past the thousand: the best mindmaps

Saturday, July 26th, 2008

The Internet’s best mindmaps library just uploaded 11 more links and thumbnails to superb mindmaps and concept maps, taking it past the 1,000 entries mark.

We think it’s the best mind maps library out there, with maps selected for their originality, creativity and usefulness, as an inspiration to everyone in the mindmapping community. Every map is classified by type (true mindmaps, spidergrams, concept maps, bubble diagrams and more), and tagged by topic, so you can do a filtered search to narrow down your view to, for example, just concept maps about science, or just true mindmaps about creativity.

Every thumbnail image is linked to the map’s original website where in most cases you can find the full-sized map, and often an article built around it.

Roy

Posted in Concept maps, Education, library, mind maps | No Comments »

See Wikipedia subjects as mind maps

Friday, June 1st, 2007

This is fun. wikimindmap will produce a mind map of any subject in Wikipedia.

Go to http://www.wikimindmap.org/, select en.wikipedia.org from “Select a Wiki” and enter “Napoleon I of France” as your topic. After a few seconds you will see this (but a better image):

Napoléon Bonaparte mind map

Click a green arrow and it makes a fresh mind map of the subject in that node. Some nodes take you to the Wikipedia section, some to external sites (clearly marked). Some nodes expand on the spot – it all depends on the Wikipedia article’s structure. The tool is obviously parsing and analyzing the Wikipedia syntax.

I think this is a wonderful and appealing resource. How about you?

Roy

Posted in Education, mindmapping | No Comments »

Mindmapping Style

Thursday, April 12th, 2007

I’ve just done a review of some of the different styles of mindmaps and put down a little of my experience about how people who like mindmaps develop their use of them over time. If you liked mindmaps, or concept maps, when you encountered them at in college, chances are you went on to use them in adult life – but in a different way. Maybe to plan projects, manage your tasks or get control of your information.

Which style do you use?

http://www.topicscape.com/mindmapping/mindmapping-styles.html

Posted in Concept maps, Education, Getting Things Done (GTD), mindmapping, project management | No Comments »