Mind Mapping/Lesson 1/Answers Page

This page is the answer sheet to the following question, posed in Lesson 1 of Mind Mapping.

Etyam07 22:44, 9 August 2007 (UTC)==Why did you come to the Mind Mapping page at Wikiversity?== What triggered your interest? What is it that makes you read all this? Is this a random visit? Did you read about it on another webpage? Did you come from another Wikiversity page? Or maybe directly from Google?

Why are you here? Read what others have said and share your own respons with future readers.

• I have heard of mind mapping but have no idea what it is. I like to know what everything is about.

Because its sounds interesting.

Answers

I have always wondered how our brain is programmed & its ways of learning & running things & wanna learn more & more of it - Sandhya

I have used mind mapping software previously and now im using freemind. However, i cant seem to be able to create a mind map with as much ease as im used too...hence wanting to learn more.

I was browsing WIKI when the term "Mind mapping" caught my attention & simply wanted to know what it's all about.

plain curiosity ... to learn!

• "I came here because I am the creator of this page and I wanted to put the first answer myself." --Roelvermeulen 21:38, 29 October 2006 (UTC)

• I'm intrested in learning how to use wiki's for learning. I've heard of mind maps and would be interested in finding out more. At the end of this learning experience I'd hope to be able to apply mind mapping techneques to learning with a wiki. Mystictim 17:50, 16 December 2006 (UTC)

• I used the random page function.

• I am an undergraduate & I need to order & place contents systematically for easy reading without any loss of memory

• Mind-mapping has been useful to some extent for me in the past (I've used Freemind), but I still need to find better ways of using and managing information. That's why I came here - as well as to see what kind of page this would be about mind-mapping! Cormaggio ^beep 23:52, 24 January 2007 (UTC)

• Curiosity, mostly... and, I'm an instructor at a University who wants to find better ways of organizing information for my students.

• Random pages - and then curiousity to look further --Vannin 04:11, 26 February 2007 (UTC)

• I love learning, and I've been speding more and more time in Wikipedia and its partner programs for that matter - Thank you to all the contributors--what a great project! - Fernando

• Another Random Page surfer...

• I am an undergraduate student who is helping to create and facilitate an experimental class on the University's connection to nuclear weapons and am considering a Mind Map as an assignment for students in the class. Mark UC Santa Cruz, "UC and the Bomb" class

• I am a teacher and I'm interested in how mind-mapping might benefit my students.
• The term really sounds exciting so I need to understand this.
• I have worked on making mind maps for years, and am interested in what others have done

• I've been working with mind maps in the past, but I'm interested in refreshing my knowlegde of mind maps. I would like to improve my skills to create mind maps in the future for implementation of social aspects in a web-based business platform. --jcklaassen 11:17, 14 January 2008 (UTC)

• I have successfully used mind maps in the past and wanted to remind myself, so I could introduce the idea to my son (A levels looming!)

• I came here because I lack organization, I'm hoping that mind mapping will help me, to create some time for the things I want to do so badly.

• I want to learn anything and everything!

• I want to use mind mapping in my teaching.

• I just wanted to know what's that.

• I feel that Mind Mapping will give me a secret advantage to understanding concepts and retaining large volumes of information... we'll see how it goes

• Having had a vacation, I'm now taking stock of my life (big questions) and need inspiration. I hope an understanding of Mind Mapping will provide a tool in this quest.

• I was reading about the theory of mind in wikipidia, I am intersted in psychology, and I came throw the wikiversity, I began to read about Mind Mapping, I never heared about before so I strated t read and I want to know more about it, and if I can benefite from it. that is why I am here.Dr.Elfatih Shora

• In the process of preparing for an exam and hence thought this mind mapping would help in studying in a better way. Aswini P B

• I want to help myself to think more logically which can help myself on decision making, working and my personal life.

• Earlier today, I was discussing art (in general), and sculpture (ceramics in particular) with Dora, the person who teaches a class on ceramics at the Caroline County (Maryland) Senior Center. I am a retired computer programmer and a grad school drop-out.

Most of the rest of my biographical material is on my User page, my Talk page, and my Contributions page. I need to walk our two whippets now, but I hope to come back soon to answer the question. Original time: 01:35, 11 August 2012 (UTC) Please let me fix my previous error now. Ray Calvin Baker (talk) 18:57, 11 August 2012 (UTC)

• OK, I'm back after walking the whippets. And I notice I hadn't logged in the previous time. I was intending to do some research on "how the Wikiversity is organized", not intending to contribute. At risk of exposing myself to SPAM, I will now put my digital signature at the end of this answer. Now you have both my home Internet Service Provider number and my Wikiversity ID. Oh, well. Now I'm REALLY open-minded, at least in some technical sense. Back on track to "the answer": I intended to look for and copy a chart I had seen -- schools, categories, sub-categories, topics, etc. I had just found that "Sculpture" had only four entries: Found Object (a stub), Relief (empty), Stone (empty), and Ceramics (off to a good,impressive start). But where are my personally preferred materials: Metal, Paper (including Origami, paper sculpture, and paper engineering), and Wood? And how should I categorize these topics, should I find myself unable to resist the temptation to at least mention these sculptural media? Obviously, this is a problem in organizing intellectual material. Thinking it would take a while to retrace previous steps, I turned instead to the "Recent Contributions" page, and there it was, that irresistible keyword, "MIND". Having been so excited by Figure 70, "A tiny portion of the author's 'semantic network'" on page 370 of Douglas Hofstadter's _Godel,_Escher,_Bach:_An_Eternal_Golden_Braid_, -- so excited that I shared it with my fellow grad students at George Washington University, I thought that there must be some connection here. And that is how I first came to this page. The second time I got here, I simply typed "Mind" into the Wikiversity search box, and "Mind Mapping" was at the top of the list. But you asked me several other questions on my way here, so I intend to come back yet again. (I hate long editing sessions, having to use an editor belonging to someone else, so I prefer several short sessions.) Ray Calvin Baker (talk) 02:37, 11 August 2012 (UTC)

• If you checked any of those previously mentioned pages, perhaps you have guessed that my "secret ambition" is to bring self-awareness to the Wikiversity, possibly by enlisting "Crowd Accellerated Innovation". Next question: "What triggered your interest?" Answer: The word "Mind", as in _The_Emperor's_New_Mind_, by Roger Penrose, and _The_Society_of_Mind_, by Marvin Minsky. And Robert J. Sawyer, sci-fi writer and author of _Flash_Forward_, _WWW:_Wake_, _WWW:_Watch_, and _WWW:_Wonder_, practically insists that his readers also read _The_Origin_of_Consiousness_in_the_Breakdown_of_the_Bicameral_Mind_. Incidently, "Theory of Mind", the psychological concept I was supposed to learn about as I studied educational theories, doesn't do much for me. I have Asperger's Syndrome, (so does Dr. Decter) and am sadly lacking in empathy, social skills, and common sense. Second question: "What is it that makes you read all this?" Answer: the hope of finding a community (a Crowd) able to Accelerate and Innovate my plan to promote "Simple Simon" (the pi-man's friend) to become director of the Wikiversity, as well as an excellent tour guide. Third question: "Is this a random visit?" Answer: Obviously NOT a random visit, but very deliberate. Fourth question: "Did you read about it on another web page?" Answer: "Yes, the Wikiversity 'recent additions' page. More questions; more answers later. Whippets again. Ray Calvin Baker (talk) 03:06, 11 August 2012 (UTC)

• Last questions: "Did you come from another Wikiversity page?" Answer: Yes. I just told you WHICH Wikiversity page(s). Last question: "Or maybe directly from Google?" Answer: No, not directly from Google, though I used Google a lot several months ago. I made myself an "InternetMap.html" file of Wikiversity (and other) pages on my flash drive -- I came directly from that. Fun questions! I hope you have fun with my answers! Ray Calvin Baker (talk) 03:30, 11 August 2012 (UTC)