[Year 12 IPM] ITA U4O1 visualising thinking

[Meadows, Roslyn M]

Free Mind is an open source mind mapping and visualising software - it is av=
ailable on the following link
 
http://freemind.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Main_Page
 
Ros Meadows
Lauriston Girls School
meadowsro at lauriston.vic.edu.au <mailto:meadowsro at lauriston.vic.edu.au> 
meadows.roslyn.m at edumail.vic.gov.au
 
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Doug Larson

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Inspiration 8 is now available as a free for 3 days download.  One major
difference is that Inspiration files in version 8 can be exported to
Word for further editing...

Maree Duivenvoorden
Toorak College
Mount Eliza

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Subject: [Year 12 IPM] ITA U4O1 visualising thinking

G'day

I've been putting this off for a LONG time but I finally had to face the

perplexing task 3 of ITA U4O1. Now that I know it has to be done with
software (thanks for the clarification, Paula!), I started with Word's
drawing tools and rapidly gave it up as a joke.

Then, Inspiration struck me literally. I've never used it beyond a 4
minute fiddle and a yawn, but I had a play today and it's quite nifty
for U4O1 task 3.

Attached please find a (rather large - 211K - apologies in advance) JPG
with an attempt at what I THINK the study design wants.  Frankly, I'm
guessing madly about this.

I've only seen one other example of this sort of visualisation stuff (in

the Potts book) and was greatly underwhelmed by it.  It didn't seem to
be showing anything about thinking or decisions.

Has anyone else thought about U4O1 Task 3?  Is this how you see task 3
looking??

BTW I used Inspiration 6 (published 1999!) but it seems to do quite
well.  The source file is attached too if you want to fiddle with my
starting point.  Suggestions are more than welcome.

Mark K

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