Whenever we want to start a new project such as designing a new
online course, or writing a research paper most of the time,
the biggest challenge is to organize our thoughts to
structure our thinking process. And this is where mind mapping
comes into play, we can use mind maps to structure and organize
our thinking process to tackle any particular project. In this
video, I'm going to show you what our mind maps how we can
create mind maps how we can use mind mapping while teaching
online. I will also show you two examples one of creating a new
online course and the other is doing a literature review for a
research project. And we are starting right after this short
break.
Hello, and welcome to my channel. My name is Tahir And
if this is your first time, ple se hit the subscribe button
nd also the notification bell to get notified whenever I pos
a new video on this channel ev ry Tuesday and Friday. Mind Mapp
ng is a visual tool. It i a diagram which shows
he hierarchy and a struct re relationship between vari
us elements. We make this diag am when for example, we want
to gather our thoughts abou a central project or a main top
c, there are cert in characteristics of a mindm
p. The first and the most import nt thing is that the mind map m
st be contained on a single pa e, you can make a mind map
on paper. But now we have a lot of tools available softw
re available which we can use to create mind maps. So we put
he main idea at the center of he page. And then we bra
ch outward. And when we bra ch outward, the important thing
we should consider is that we should branch in a way wh
ch foll
our thinking process.
And because a mind map must be on a single page therefore all
the software used for mind mapping provide us an in finite
canvas. So this is a finite page, I can scroll it in all
directions. And this is because when we are going outward and as
our knowledge about this main topic increases, we will find
more subtopics
so I am going to show you two examples here. The first example
is about doing a literature review. And let's say I have to
do a literature review for my PhD degree. So my thinking
process will start like this. First of all, I would consider
that okay, what is the theoretical background of my
research question, and I will put something like this, a
branch is coming out from my literature review, and then I
will put theory, then I might have more than one option, then
I will further subdivide this into two options. Similarly, my
next question would be what are the top researchers in my field
and then I will find these researchers and I will put their
names here. So this will be my further subdivision of this sub
topic. So you can say that this is sub sub topic. And then I
will gather some papers from these three scientists. And that
will be for the subdivision of this sub task. Similarly, first
of all, I might only look at some of the conference papers,
and my thinking process is looking for some conference
papers. And I will write a sub task highly relevant conference
papers and then this RS is relevance score. So when I get
any paper, I will assign the relevant score to that paper
that at a scale of one to 10. What is the relevancy of this
conference paper to my research question, then I might also find
some relevant thesis from other previous students of my
supervisor or all around the world, then I will gather some
high impact journal papers and then I will put their impact
factors besides those papers. So this will be my sub task again,
then I might find some papers about experimentation in my
field of research. And there could be two types of
experimentation physical or simulated. So I might get some
papers like this. So this is my thinking process that I'm going
to find top researchers, I'm going to find some relevance
conference papers. And then I made a relevancy score, factor
for this, and so on. So this is my mind map. When I was building
this map, there was no order required. Let's say first, it
comes to my mind that Okay, let's find some top researchers.
So I just put top researchers here so order is not important
in a mind map. You can throw all your ideas in the mind map and
later on when your knowledge of this main topic increases. You
can put Some further ideas there as subtopics. So this is all you
generate a mind map, I will show you one more example about
creating an online course. Because that example is a
different kind of example, and therefore, it will open your
mind that, what are other possibilities? No, this is the
mind map, which I get again when I start creating any online
course. So, this was a course, which I created few months ago.
And normally I don't have these two tasks consultation with the
client and the initial review, because normally there is no
client, I make courses for my own. But there are certain
things which are required for any course creation process, I
will zoom this and I will show you one by one. So let's zoom a
little bit and I will show you first my thinking process. So,
when I want to develop a course, first of all, I have to figure
out what are my target audience or the focus group for which I
am going to create this course. So, this was a gmail course. And
then I put some professions for which this course is suitable,
for example, executives office workers. So target audience is
one important sub task, then course creation process, I put
it here. And then I create videos, when I create videos, I
sometime create images on Canva, which is a browser based
software, then I create some sample emails I might have to
create in order to show some examples in my course, then
there is a sub task of creating exercises. So the video creation
process has these two sub tasks. Now let's move on to the next
phase. Now what I do is I look for some existing resources on
my topic. So this is my topic. So I will see that whether there
are some courses available on Udemy, or some other course
platforms or even some YouTube videos. So what are those
courses? What are some of their topics? And what are some of the
concerns people have they want to learn about this topic? Now
the next step would be that I have to find out what are the
existing resources from those courses, from commercial courses
from courses on Skillshare and Udemy, etc. So as you can see
that I go from this stage to this stage, so there is no
order, there is no order. This is the last stage, when I have
to decide what topics I'm going to cover in my course what are
the course outcomes, so order is not important. So whenever you
start a new project, you want some ideas, you put your main
topic in the center, and you just start throwing what could
be the subtopics, what you think are the sub topics are potential
sub topics. And when your knowledge of this topic
improves, you further divide that topic into sub topics. And
when your mind map is complete, and then you are in a better
shape, your thoughts are organized, structured, and know
you can find a strategy to complete that particular
project. So these were two examples. No, as you saw, the
main purpose of a mindmap is to consolidate the information from
the free flow of ideas to something solid. And the second
purpose is to brainstorm the ideas. And this is the thing
which you have to use while teaching online. If you are
teaching in the same tone, all the time, your students will
lose the attention, they will lose the focus and you will
never achieve the course outcomes. So in order to get
students engaged, we have to do many techniques, we have to
follow some strategies, and I have made a separate video how
to get student engagement you can watch on my channel, but
this is one of those. So for example, when you start your
course, you can show a mind map to students that this is my
curriculum. These are the subtopics these are the further
sub topics in the shape of a mind map. So mind map is a
visual diagram and most of the students you will notice that
they are visual learners, and they will easily memorize the
topics. And you can see this easily next time when you start
the session. You ask them to show you a mind map what they
have learned in the previous lecture. For example, if your
first lecture is about curriculum, ask them what they
have memorized about the course curriculum and you will notice a
big difference that students tend to memorize visual things
more easily. Then you can create a discussion template, which is
a mind map where students can discuss you through a topic and
they tell you various sub topics of that topic and you put on the
template and then you can ask them to create a mind map
presentation about any topic has an assignment. So these are few
ways you can use in online teaching and engage your
students now there are many free software available you can use
Use any of them, I use this software called free mind. And
this is very easy to use. Let's start a new file. So what you do
is when you start a file, you get this new Mind Map written at
the center of the page, which you can click and you can edit
this to your main topic. and tap no when this is great, you right
click here, and then you have a lot of options. For example,
this new child node and now you can put your sub topic or rather
it will be a topic because this is the first level of hierarchy.
So let's call it topic one, and click outside. And now if you
press enter, it will create a sibling node or the second
topic, so I would say topic two. And if I press ENTER again, it
will create a third topic and so on. Similarly, you can click
here and you can right click and you can create a new child node
which will be your sub topic. So this is very easy to create a
mind map and this software free mind is free. You can download
it and you can practice it, you will find it very easy and start
creating some mind maps for your online courses. Ask your
students to create some and in this way your students will be
attached to your course and to your contents. So I hope that
you like this video and if so please give it a thumbs up.
Thanks for watching and see you next time.