mind map

(noun)

A diagram used to represent words, ideas, tasks or other items linked to and arranged radially around a central key word or idea.

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  • Other Presentation Software Options

    • Microsoft PowerPoint dominates the presentation software market, but other options include Mind Maps, SlideRocket, and Prezi.
    • Mind Maps You can use mind maps to plan and modify your presentation.
    • Mind Maps break away from the linear format of PowerPoint by using graphic symbols to show connections between different ideas, allowing the presenter to show a top level map and then drill down to show details for different connecting ideas.
    • For presentation slides, you can start with a general, top level map and then create additional slides to drill down to the subtopics.
    • You can summarize the sub points and then go back to the main, top-level mind map to show the connection to the whole.

  • Extemporaneous Speeches

    • There are two popular methods for creating a graphical representation for notes: outlining, and mind or concept mapping.
    • Mind mapping and concept mapping are visual representations of ideas and concepts.
    • Unlike mind maps, concept maps do not fix on a single conceptual center.
    • For example, in the mind map for student learning , you can view the main component idea and related ideas which connect to its branch nodes.
    • You can also use a mind map as speaking notes.

  • Introduction to Landscapes

    • What we produce collaboratively throughout the context of the entire semester (or concept study experience) is a map of the curriculum and the across grade-bands about particular concepts.

  • Introduction to Mapping Waste-Elimination

    • Trying to eliminate waste in an organization without first conducting some form of reconnaissance is comparable to hacking one's way through a jungle without a map.
    • For this reason, Walter Stahel and I both advocate creating a sustainability process map (also known as a process flow chart) to help lay a strong foundation before application begins.
    • Almost any production setup or work process in any organizational setting will benefit from being mapped. including service businesses, factory assembly lines, farms, offices, schools and food production.
    • When done correctly, a process map usually reveals clarifying facts and figures about consumption and waste, including:
    • Keep Miller's words in mind when mapping a work process.

  • Basic Map Types

    • Below are some of the most frequently used kinds of thematic maps.
    • Dot maps use dots to show comparative densities of features over a base map.
    • As do dot maps, graduated symbol maps use symbols that occur at points across a map.
    • Choropleth maps are the most common and easily recognized of the thematic maps.
    • Like graduated symbol maps, choropleth maps can be proportional or range-graded variations.

  • Physical Maps and Integration with Genetic Maps

    • Physical maps display the physical distance between genes and can be constructed using cytogenetic, radiation hybrid, or sequence mapping.
    • There are three methods used to create a physical map: cytogenetic mapping, radiation hybrid mapping, and sequence mapping.
    • Sequence mapping resulted from DNA sequencing technology that allowed for the creation of detailed physical maps with distances measured in terms of the number of base pairs.
    • Genetic maps provide the outline and physical maps provide the details.
    • Describe the methods used to physically map genes: cytogenetic mapping, radiation hybrid mapping, and sequence mapping

  • Positioning Bases

    • By using customer research and perceptual mapping, a marketer can create a positioning statement using one of the three main bases.
    • Positioning relates to a process used by marketers to create an image in the minds of a target market.
    • Positioning is facilitated by perceptual mapping to determine the ideal points of consumers.This helps to determine if positioning should be functional, symbolic, or experiential.
    • By using customer research and perceptual mapping, a marketer can create a positioning statement using one of the three main bases.

  • Perceptual Mapping

    • Perceptual maps commonly have two dimensions even though they are capable of having several.
    • Many perceptual maps also display consumers' ideal points.
    • Perceptual maps need not come from a detailed study.
    • There are also intuitive maps (also called judgmental maps or consensus maps) that are created by marketers based on their understanding of their industry.
    • A combination map allows companies to find a space that has unmet consumer desires.

  • Privacy Rights and the Right to Die

    • The process is set forth in law, including the requirements that the patient must be of sound mind when requesting assisted suicide, as confirmed by a doctor and other witnesses.
    • The patient must be of sound mind when they request a prescription for a lethal dose of medication.
    • Map of the United States highlighting states and districts with legalized physician-assisted suicide.

  • Components of a Speech: Main Points, Introduction, Conclusion, and Transitions

    • Listening to a speaker is inherently different from reading a page, and public speakers should keep that difference in mind as they prepare their work.
    • Open with a detailed map of your speech--giving good directions in the beginning will save your audience from getting lost along the way.
    • On a written page, formatting provides a helpful road map: the reader sees topic headings, paragraph breaks, and other visual cues that signal transitions naturally.
    • A slide or handout with topic headings printed on it is a good road map for a speech, preparing the audience for any twists and turns that may come up.