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http://www.thebrain.com 
The Brain Inc.
| This software company has translated mindmapping principles into effective use for the Internet and your desktop. The Personal Brain is an invaluable tool for organizing files, thoughts and Web-based resources. |
http://www.tld.jcu.edu.au/netshare/learn/mindmap/
Mind Mapping: JCU Study Skills Online Buzan, Tony with Barry Buzan. The Mind Map Book, 1996, Plume, Penguin Books, New York, NY.
| Tony Buzan is the father of mindmapping and radiant thinking. His methods have been groundbreaking in accessing intelligence, and magnifying the brain's pattern of perception. The book offers new ways of using and improving memory, concentration and creativity in planning and structuring thought on all levels. |
Novak, Joseph D. Learning, Creating, and Using Knowledge: Concept Maps (TM) as Facilitative Tools in Schools and Corporations. 1998. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Publishers. Mahwah, NJ. (Annotated at Educational theories)
Wycoff, Joyce. Mindmapping: Your Personal Guide to Exploring Creativity and Problem-Solving. New York, NY: Berkley Books, 1991.
| In the 'olden' days students and writers, before they started a composition, a report, or a book, would draw up an 'outline' - a written guide of how this composition would proceed, logically, from introduction, through the main body, to the conclusion.While this process was helpful, it was often not always easy to follow that outline once the writing process got under way and the brain started to deviate from the pre-programmed path. What to do? Follow the outline anyway and 'fit' thinking and writing into it, even though the tenets had changed? or to follow the new path of thinking? What if the outline had already been turned in and approved by the authorities? To solve this problem, Tony Buzan in the early 1970's developed the concept of 'mindmapping' a new skill that revolutionized our approach to thinking productively, correctly, and creatively. Wycoff here has shown how to apply mindmapping to our daily lives to enhance thinking, creativity, and productivity. |
Wycoff, Joyce, with Tim Richardson. Transformation Thinking, 1995, Berkley Books, New York, NY.
| More than ever before, schools, communities, businesses, our own lives will become stale and outdated unless we keep up with and participate in the changes that are going on around us. To accomplish this, we need to start at the very root of most problems, our own thinking. If we cannot transform our thinking we cannot transform our lives or the environment we live in. Joyce Wycoff explains the tools of transformation: brainwriting, mess-mapping, storyboarding and more - simple techniques that free the mind and open doors to problem-solving in any organization. A powerful and practical guidebook. |
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