Thursday, November 11, 2010

Thing # 14

     I must admit that I didn't understand the mind map at first. In order to better understand it I decided to try something that came easy to me. I chose to use our summer vacation. I tried bubbl.us and it does help you organize your ideas. You just type a main idea into a bubble and then type subsequent ideas into a child bubble. You can also connect two bubbles with a directional line. I like the color feature. When you change the main bubble all the subsequent bubbles change to a different color and their child bubbles change as well.
     The next thing I tried was gliffy.  I have had more experienced with flow charts.  When I was in the Army, we used them for phone rosters and various classes.  For this one I chose a flow chart for the three branches of Government.  It was very easy.  They have a large group of shapes to choose from and a wide range of colors to decorate them.  You can color the background as well.  This would be very useful for making charts diagramming things like how a bill becomes a law or duties of the Vice President. 

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