keeping track of your notes
Most of your keep track of your notes in a google doc or in a notebook. The problem is, most of those notes you write you either lose, never look at again, or forget why you took in the first place or what you are supposed to do with them.
Your notes are useless if you don't use them in some way, so why not make art with them? Especially art that shows you the relationship between all these little bits of knowledge you just took down.
So, I like mind-mapping, mind-webbing, or whatever you want to to call it.
You start in the middle with the main topic you are examining. From there, you draw little branches that represent each main idea associated with the main topic. From each main idea, you can draw smaller and smaller branches to represent examples, or even further ideas that keep developing. If you are artistic, as the example above suggests, you have a beautiful "info-graphic suitable for framing.
Otherwise, plain word balloons work just as well, and there are also apps and other 2.0 tools that make your mind-webs for you, such as Inspiration.
Your notes are useless if you don't use them in some way, so why not make art with them? Especially art that shows you the relationship between all these little bits of knowledge you just took down.
So, I like mind-mapping, mind-webbing, or whatever you want to to call it.
You start in the middle with the main topic you are examining. From there, you draw little branches that represent each main idea associated with the main topic. From each main idea, you can draw smaller and smaller branches to represent examples, or even further ideas that keep developing. If you are artistic, as the example above suggests, you have a beautiful "info-graphic suitable for framing.
Otherwise, plain word balloons work just as well, and there are also apps and other 2.0 tools that make your mind-webs for you, such as Inspiration.
Finally, it is possible to create a linear flow mind-web, that shows a long train of relationships as in: A leads to B, which leads to C, which leads to D, and so forth. Yet, you can still diagram this linear mind-web with details at each stop along the way. Here's an example:
So let's try to do one together based on the work you have done this past week and a half. Click here to go to the activity.