Mind mapping...

Assignment for this week was to create a mindmap for a project. I chose the development of my company's web portal and found this tool a great method for creative thinking in instructional design. The mindmap is easily portable and can be created anywhere, piece of paper, dry erase marker board etc. I can be edited by multiple participants and is an easy way to distinguish categories when using multiple colors (I need to find a digital tool for creating this on the fly like in MS OneNote)

Other great advantages to this tool are that it's a fast way to generate ideas, it's easy to adapt the branches to a hierarchy or architecture if needed and the multiple branches can connect to other maps for larger projects with each branch the responsibility of different teams.

Here's my rough map:

Digital version:

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