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	DecTech5: Mind Maps	337 dni temu
	Mind Maps This week, I’m going to let you all into the secret behind the success of DecTech, Mind Maps. A Mind Map is a visual way of interacting with linked ideas or concepts. It is basically a diagram made up of ideas linked together. An Idea consists of a word in a shape, normally a circle. To express the relationship between ideas, we use arrows called links. You can move around ideas and links as much as you want. You can customize your diagram with pictures, to make an idea stand out. How can I use mind maps? In a lecture, try drawing a Mind Map to take notes, the added task might just keep you awake. Or draw up your lecture notes as a mind map to help you revise. Mind Maps make reviewing material easier, as you don’t have to look over pages of notes. They also make the ideas a lot clearer. Mind Maps are also useful for essays, projects or articles. You can explore different orders of ideas as well as viewing everything in one page. It will make the essay easier, especially if you can’t think where to start. Mind Maps are great for brain storming. Every two weeks, DecTech starts life as a mind map. Without it, I couldn’t work out how to structure my article. How do you make mind maps? Well this is in DecTech for a reason. Inspiration is a mind mapping software programme that is installed on every PC on campus. Go to programs and launch inspiration. Think of something you want to do, an essay or project, article or revision. When you start the programme, you will be in design view. This means you can start drawing your mind map straight away. Click in the bubble in the middle of the screen. Delete the text and write the main theme of your mind map. Now, let’s add some other ideas. Click the red lightning bolt or hit Ctrl+R. When the red lightning bolt appears, type other ideas related to the first one, separate them by hitting enter. You can do this in any idea. You don’t have to just make bubbles, in the image pallet, click or search for an image. Click on the outline view. This displays your diagram in text and you can re-order sections. Click ‘Export’ button, click ‘ok’ twice and it will load word. This will export outline view and design view into word, so you get an outline and a diagram. You can delete the diagram and use the outline to write your essay. You can use the diagram to explain your big idea to other people, or to upload the image to the internet. Here’s a screen shot of Inspiration and a Mind Map I used to explain some ways of fixing your computer. Follow it at your own peril! I've added it in photos. Thanks for reading. If you have any questions or topic you would like me to cover, email me at Declan.p.meenagh@nuim.ie. I have stopped doing computer help in the Speak Easy due to a lack of interest, but you can still email me with any computer related questions. Happy Christmas and New Year, may you get many cool gadgets. Hopefully Mind Maps will help you not fail the exams; that’s what I’m hoping anyway!
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