Strategy: Mind mapping for note taking
9 Keywords: Mindmapping, Mind Mapping, Concept Mapping, Brainstorming, Inspiration, Note Taking, Notetaking, Hearing Impairment, Hearing Loss
"I use mind-maps quite a lot in my note-taking... I can then make notes on the mind-map jogging my memory and this piece of software [Inspiration] does it really really quickly, uses different colours and then it automatically puts it into bullet points for you so that you can write an essay on it or anything in prose."
Here is the view of the outline of the mindmap in Inspiration with a list of the main points -
Technologies used for Neuroscience & Psychology in my 1st year
- PubMed
- Microsoft Office
- Excel
- Word
- PowerPoint
- Blackboard
- SPSS
- Online searches
- Wikipedia
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"There is too much to write and I can’t do it at the same speed while I try to listen what the lecturer is saying. It’s all too much, so by using mind-maps it’s putting things in a way that I would be able to look back on in a visual format – because I’m a visual learner."
- Hannah B.Tip
Thinking of using mind maps in lectures? Tips for Note Taking from the Spoken Word with some helpful ways of getting used to making notes in this way before trying a long lecture!
