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Mindomo is one of those apps that will be every scatter-brained, tangent-loving individual’s best friend. Its format begins with the essential question in the middle of the web, always important if you can never remember the actual question you are meant to be answering. Teachers, it’ll prevent the students from losing track of the larger purpose/question in mind; students, just make everything connect back to the middle. From there, there are sub-topics that branch out, probably from an initial brainstorming. Fantastic when you’re trying to figure out what kind of topic you want to write about for the Junior Research Paper, especially if you don’t have an initial idea.
Mindomo breaks everything down step-by-step: big idea, sub-topic, lines of thinking, details. It’s literally a visible outline that can be expanded pretty much infinitely. Linking articles and videos will both allow others to assess your technological skills and get feedback from the teacher on the validity/usefulness of the source. If you’re feeling up to it, leave an emoticon, perhaps one of surprise or anger or the classic smiley next to the source or idea to let other’s know what you think. Overall, it’s terrible about sharing from the app, but in classrooms, it’s invaluable to organize random thoughts from around the room into a cohesive, seemingly well thought-out mind map that puts the power in collaborator’s hands to create connections.
