<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/700bb1a9-3e83-4de0-9bdc-2925c704b851/5D0542D8-EDE4-4E19-AAA6-90E44FA4B70C/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://headrush.typepad.com/creating_passionate_users/2005/04/why_i_want_a_ta.html" href="http://headrush.typepad.com/creating_passionate_users/2005/04/why_i_want_a_ta.html" style="font-size: 11px;">headrush.typepad.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://headrush.typepad.com/creating_passionate_users/2005/04/why_i_want_a_ta.html">I could not live without <A href="http://www.mind-map.com/EN/mindmaps/definition.html">mind maps.</A></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://headrush.typepad.com/creating_passionate_users/2005/04/why_i_want_a_ta.html"><P>The main reason I do it this way is because when you use a linear format rather than pieces radiating out from the center, <B><I>the brain imposes a hierarchical structure on the content</I></B>, regardless of whether one was intended. And this matters. It changes, even if subtly, the way you process and understand the material. Another thing mindmaps let you do is make connections between different nodes; something that's especially hard (or impossible) to do with linear notes. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://headrush.typepad.com/creating_passionate_users/2005/04/why_i_want_a_ta.html"><B>a lot of people take notes on their laptops!</B></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://headrush.typepad.com/creating_passionate_users/2005/04/why_i_want_a_ta.html"><P>That meant, however, that there was a serious mismatch between what they were being <I>asked</I> to do-- fill out mind maps-- vs. what they <I>could</I> do--type linear notes into a text editor or outliner. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://headrush.typepad.com/creating_passionate_users/2005/04/why_i_want_a_ta.html"> You can <I>see</I> things with a mind map that you simply won't see with a hierarchical top-down representation.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://headrush.typepad.com/creating_passionate_users/2005/04/why_i_want_a_ta.html">There are some instructions on getting started <A href="http://www.peterussell.com/MindMaps/HowTo.html">here</A> and <A href="http://www.mindtools.com/pages/article/newISS_01.htm">here</A>, but a quick <A href="http://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=mind+maps&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8">Google search</A> should tell you everything.</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/5D0542D8-EDE4-4E19-AAA6-90E44FA4B70C/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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