What is a Mind Mapping?

Mind mapping is a highly effective

way of getting information in and
out of your brain. Mind mapping is a
creative and logical means of notetaking
and
note-making
that
literally "maps out" your ideas.
All Mind Maps have some things in
common. They have a natural
organizational
structure
that
radiates from the center and use
lines, symbols, words, color and
images according to simple, brainfriendly concepts. Mind mapping
converts a long list of monotonous
information
into
a
colorful,
memorable and highly organized
diagram that works in line with your
brain's natural way of doing things.

secondary thoughts, and so on.

Special images or shapes can
represent landmarks of interest or
particularly relevant ideas.
The Mind Map is the external mirror
of your own radiant or natural
thinking facilitated by a powerful
graphic process, which provides the
universal key to unlock the dynamic
potential
of
the
brain.

One simple way to understand a

Mind Map is by comparing it to a
map of a city. The city center
represents the main idea; the main
roads leading from the center
represent the key thoughts in your
thinking process; the secondary
roads or branches represent your

What are the essential characteristics of Mind Mapping?

The main idea, subject or focus is crystallized in a central image.

The main themes radiate from the central image as 'branches'.
The branches comprise a key image or key word drawn or printed on its
associated line.
Topics of lesser importance are represented as 'twigs' of the relevant
branch.
The branches form a connected nodal structure.

What are the advantages?

Generate more ideas: Mind Mapping allows you to start quickly and generate
more ideas in less time. You dont have to edit or order your thoughts; just
start with a creative doodle in the center of your page and begin printing words
on lines emanating from the center as you think of them. The free-ranging
format adding words to one branch one moment, then skipping over to
another branch the next increases your chances of generating new ideas.
Make new connections: Mind Mapping allows you to represent a tremendous
amount of information in a relatively small space. You can have all your notes
for a topic on one piece of paper, with your ideas arranged in a way that
encourages you to see relationships between them. Mind Mapping helps you
see connections among things that may have seemed completely separate.
Improve your memory: Remembering your material becomes much easier.
Colors, images and key words three central ingredients of Mind Maps are
much more engaging to the brain than sentences. A well-made Mind Map is
almost impossible to forget!
Use your whole brain: Half a mind is a terrible thing to waste. Mind Mapping
helps you strengthen your analytical left brain by training you to look for the
most essential key words. At the same time, it stimulates the right brain by
encouraging you to use colors and images.

How to make it?

1. Start in the centre
2. Make a central image that represents the topic about which you are
writing/thinking
3. The main themes around the central image are like the chapter headings
of a book
4. Start to add a second level of thought. These words or images are linked
to the main branch that triggered them. Remember
5. Add a third or fourth level of data as thoughts come to you
6. Sometimes enclose branches of a Mind Map with outlines in colour
7. Make each Mind Map a little more
If you want to get more information, you have to check this link
http://www.wikihow.com/Make-a-Mind-Map

Why Mind Mapping for the class?

The best way to use mind maps
depends of the teachers imagine,
however is a bit easy to use maps
when the class has a lot of
information about a special topic.
We have use mind map to make the
student understand each of part of
the topic.
In an English class we must use a
lot of mind maps because the topics
have a lot of functions for using and
it is really important to know for
each student, another important
option is the behavior of visual
students because they have to see
something for learning.

APPLICATION
Students have to do a Mind Map in which the main topic is going to be
Report Speech, they will have to identify the key words that help them
to develop this activity in where they make the correspondent links
between tenses, because we always use a table to present this topic
and is a good idea chance the way that we learn a big set of
information