Angela Rand's My Mind Gap
In Hot Pursuit of Writing
In Angela Rand's blog post, "In Hot Pursuit of Writing", she outlines the usefulness of a mindmap. In short, if it a way of organizing notes and thoughts into a map/chart in order to allow them to flow better. In this specific blog post Angela talks about using one to put together her findings about how students learn. I especially liked Angela's take on this subject.
In my comment on "In Hot Pursuit of Writing" I mentioned that I enjoyed her discoveries on how the human mind decodes things. I feel that understanding this will make me a better teacher. I also loved her mindmaps! I've started using them since I commented on her post. Already I ssee a big difference in how I compose my thoughts before preparing to write.
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Brains, Cognition, Reading, Scripts
"Brains, Cognition, Reading, Scrits" depicts Angela's interest is in human brain and focuses more on mindmaps that "In Hot Pursuit of Writing." Her thoughts on reading are displayed in her mindmap located below her post. Angela states that the iPhone app "SimpleMind" helped her devolope the techniques used in making her mindmap.
In my comment to her post I said that I've been uing mindmaps of my own since reading "In Hot Pursuit of Writing." Not only have they been immensely helpful, but I think her studies on how the human brain learns is fascinating. Knowing how students will learn or read would be very helpful when teaching a class of my own.
Hey Alana!
ReplyDeleteMy name is Carly Pugh and I am one of the lab assistants for EDM310. Unfortunately, I didn't get the chance to read this blog when I took this class but after reading your blog I had to check it out. Great stuff! Good job relating to your assignments and making them interesting! Also, I am glad to see you are learning some HTML and using it to apply buttons and title modifiers, like in this post and Blog Post #2! :)
Angela is a grad student at South and also Librarian/technology Specialist at the Baldwin Campus. She and mr. Chamberlain got me to use Twitter.
ReplyDeleteIt looks like this was a very worthwhile assignment for you!