The PersonalBrain™

Many cristalla.com courses use the PersonalBrain™ from The Brain.com which enables you to create your own knowledge maps — right on your computer desktop. There is no need to be connected to the Web to use your personal knowledge maps. The Personal Brain™ is a dynamic knowledge map. Selecting any thought in the map will show you how it is related to other thoughts or items in the map.

The maps mirror the way we think — by linking thoughts, not placing them in a hierarchical system of Folders and Files.

On a Web page with hyperlinks you may navigate the links in any order, but the author has decided the number of links and the relationship between them. In your PersonalBrain™ you decide how to connect information. For example, you could select documents from the cristalla.com Resource Center drag them into your PersonalBrain™ and add in documents from your own files and related e-mails — creating your own linked knowledge map.

You can attach documents such as Web pages, e-mails, Word documents, or other applications, to any thought. You knowledge map can be searched, or you can search the Web from your PersonalBrain™ and build additional maps.

More ideas on navigating cristalla.com may be found in Navigating for Learning.