Welcome to Blog Post #4. This is unconventional in some ways. We are asking you to create a Mind Map (examples and directions below), and then take a photo of it and post the image of your Mind Map as your blog post. Your’e welcome to add text, too, as a way to explain your thinking, but it’s not necessary this week.

What is a Mind-Map? A mind map is a diagram created to visualize and organize information and connections. A mind map shows relationships between ideas by using words and images that are connected directly to a central concept. To create an idea or concept with a single word often helps create mind maps as those single words tend to be easier to create sub-ideas.

Here are two examples:

• Time Management
• Mind Mapping

If you’d still like to know more about how to make mind maps, here’s a video that shows you how to develop a mind map.

Now, it’s time to…

• Make a Mind Map
  • A Mind Map starts off with a central idea/topic and then connects complex ideas through branches in ways that make sense to you. We suggest that you begin by putting your central topic / issue in the center of a page, and then making branches to:
    • Stories: Characters, Conflicts, Perspectives
    • Importance: Why is this important? What are the stakes?
    • Change: Ideas to affect change locally
      • From there, make it your own and do your best to show what you know–and what you want to know–about your topic

• Upload Image to Blog
  • The mind map that you create will be your blog post for this week. Take a photo and upload! Just try your best to make sure your audience can read and see what you’ve created.

(Due by the end of Sunday 10/8)

2. Respond to Others

A. Respond to those who have commented on your posts to continue conversations with them.

B. Read post #3 from the peers you are paired with; begin statements with “I noticed…” and “I wondered…” See this document for groups; I’ve shifted a couple of groups with one new learner and two that have left.

(Due by the end of Sunday 10/8)

IMPORTANT Blog Organization Reminders:

1. Titles: Include a specific and engaging title, that begins with “#4:”
2. Tags: You might include specific words that have to do with your topic. Examples: “Mental Health,” “Homeless.”
3. Featured Image with a proper citation: Please use a Featured Image; the option is on the lower, right when writing a blog. See the example citation at the end of this post that includes the person’s name who created the image, hyperlinked to the original image.

Photo by Slava Bowman on Unsplash