Sacred Geometry
The above link is a presentation created by Jess Biemiller, Bobby Jackson, and myself on the book Sacred Geometry by Stephen Skinner. We examine the contents of the book and look at possible applications in a STEM classroom.
Sunday, May 10, 2015
Saturday, May 2, 2015
Mind Maps
Website: https://www.text2mindmap.com/
This website is an easy tool to use to create mind maps. It's very intuitive to use in my opinion for students. An example is below I created for the cardiovascular system from a previous assignment.
The benefits of using this tool is that it is easy to use like I mentioned earlier. Students just have to type in their ideas in a box indenting if they wish to go to the next branch.
i.e.
Cardiovascular system
Blood
Platelets
Clotting
Students can also manually adjust where the boxes are placed by clicking and dragging on the actual visual itself so that it can be arranged how the wish. Students can also change the color of the boxes, the text, and save the mind map. This allows the students to make changes and add on more as a unit progresses and the students learn more. I would say that there are definitely more pros to cons in using this tool.
However there are still some downsides. A downside to this tool is that it can get crowded easily if you have lots of items to put on the mind map or if you have long sentences to put in. You can zoom in and out, but it gets hard to read still.
This website is an easy tool to use to create mind maps. It's very intuitive to use in my opinion for students. An example is below I created for the cardiovascular system from a previous assignment.
The benefits of using this tool is that it is easy to use like I mentioned earlier. Students just have to type in their ideas in a box indenting if they wish to go to the next branch.
i.e.
Cardiovascular system
Blood
Platelets
Clotting
Students can also manually adjust where the boxes are placed by clicking and dragging on the actual visual itself so that it can be arranged how the wish. Students can also change the color of the boxes, the text, and save the mind map. This allows the students to make changes and add on more as a unit progresses and the students learn more. I would say that there are definitely more pros to cons in using this tool.
However there are still some downsides. A downside to this tool is that it can get crowded easily if you have lots of items to put on the mind map or if you have long sentences to put in. You can zoom in and out, but it gets hard to read still.
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