This week our readings focused on guided inquiry and inquiry-based learning models. Since inquiry often involves brainstorming and organizing one's thoughts, I decided to share a website that allows users to create online mind maps or visual organizers. Basically, to utilize Mindomo you add a central topic and then continue adding subtopics as needed. After creating a mind map, students can then save and export their maps as picture files. The one downside is that the basic free version of Mindomo only allows 3 maps per year. Despite this shortcoming, this tool could still be useful especially if a teacher has only a few big inquiry projects per year.
Here's an example of a Mindomo map.
Image: http://www.mindomo.com/maps/080a2a033949479b97c8e353cfa3c1af
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