MEMORY MM w SIMON - Wed, 22 JULY 2020

I had an interesting meeting with my friend, Simon Hoon, to discuss some key aspects of memory. I learnt about this topic from the Late Tony Buzan, the inventor of Mind Mapping, nearly 20 years ago.

As usual, throughout our meeting, I drew a Mind Map to help me recall and explain the facts. There was great interactions and queries from my enlightened friend and the Mind Map grew and grew, like a living organism. It was really a great feeling that kept me going for 2.5 hours just to explain to my enthusiastic friend.

Just for the interests of those who visits my blog, I consciously apply most of the key memory principles, whenever I teach my students/participants. It is a great tool too, for all educators and teachers.

Enjoy the MM. Thanks.

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MIND MAP ON “DESIGN PROCESS & CONSIDERATIONS” FOR COMPOSITE MATERIALS

MIND MAP ON “DESIGN PROCESS & CONSIDERATIONS” FOR COMPOSITE MATERIALS 

From my experience, I find that the speed at which I create an A4 sized mind map depends on many factors. They are:

1) The amount of information present in the slides.
2) Familiarity with the topic.
3) Organisation of the slides.
4) How useful the mind map will be to my students. 

As I will be using the above mind map for teaching, it is therefore, without doubt, invaluable to me. I love it as it is one of the best way to make a summary as well as introduction.

Enjoy, please.
Thanks.

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MIND MAP ON 5G: A SAFER & BETTER WORLD?

SUMMARY OF 5G SEMINAR INVOLVING ERICSSON, HUA WEI & NOKIA’s CTOs

This Charles Rudd seminar was organised by the Institute of Engineers, Singapore. The focus was, "5G: A Safer & Better World?" The interesting part of the seminar was listening and mind mapping some of the relevant features, applications and strengths of three top 5G vendors' equipment respectively.

You may wish to try mind mapping while listening to the talk. It is interesting and engaging. You will never doze off. Thanks.

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MIND MAP OF A LESSON PLAN (Materials & Manufacturing Technology)

Mind Map of the Lesson Plan of 
"Materials & Manufacturing Technology"

Another example of how a mind map could be used to organise a lesson. It is an indispensable tool, highly recommended for the novice to the professional, as it is easy to learn and apply. Enjoy.

You may wish to try.

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Tony Buzan (2 June 1942 - 13 April 2019)

My Friend, mentor and Mind Map guru, Tony Buzan, has passed away. He left a legacy and an endless string of mind warriors that span the entire world.

Photo 1: My first meeting with Tony at Shangri-la Hotel, Singapore on 10th Sep 1997.

Photo 2: A Mind Map drawn by me on a 2-day Course on “How to Get More Good Thinking in Your Organisation.” Tony was never short of encouragement. 

His endorsement of “A Masterpiece” on my Mind Map at the end of his 2-day course on 12 & 13 Sep 2000 in Singapore, really blew my mind open to the potential of mind mapping in capturing the gist of anything on a piece of paper. 

It changed my mindset to the management of Information and knowledge, forever!

Rest In Peace, Master Mind Warrior and the Inventor of Mind Mapping. We will miss you!!

13 April 2019

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MY 3rd OCT 2018 PRESENTATION TO COLLEAGUES ON HOW I PROBABLY THINK STUDENTS LIKE MY TEACHING.

Mindmap Before Exploding

Mindmap After Exploding All Its Branches

I gave a presentation on 3 Oct 2018 to colleagues on some pointers as to some probable reasons why my students seem to like what I'm teaching them. 

I was blessed to have been nominated by them for five Developmental Teaching/Teaching awards spread over the past ten years. This was after I attended the Buzan Advanced Learning Strategy Course in Oct 2005. My desire to attend this course was so great that I enrolled for it despite knowing full well that Hurricane Wilma would be in the path. I have never regretted and have always grateful to my instructors, Vanda North, Jamie Nast and Jennifer Goddard for imparting their valuable knowledge to me. 

Just for the record, I have been a Mind Map enthusiast since June 1996 and a Certified Mind Map Instructor since April 1999. I have been acknowledged as a "Buzan Mentor" in 2007 by Tony Buzan, the Inventor of Mind Mapping.

Life long Learning has always been my passion in whatever I do. In today's context of fast changing technologies and skill sets, information and knowledge becomes obsolete very quickly. One must maintain the energy to keep up with the changing environment and Learn, Unlearn and Relearn in order to remain relevant in their jobs. Hence, the SkillsFuture Campaign that Singapore is promoting, is immensely important in re-equipping her workforce with relevant skills, knowledge and information needed for the global changing environment . However, people without this passion for learning and learning how to learn, WILL find it difficult to refuel their passion for learning! Let us hope, that the skills and knowledge of "Learning How To Learn" should also be considered as an essential SkillsFuture course! 

The two mindmaps (with and without second/third level branches) shows how concise, but yet, so powerful on how a mindmap can assist the presenter in his delivery.

You may wish to try to use a mindmap for your next presentation. Thanks.


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ME Design Thinking Project for Students

MINDMAP OF FACILITATION TASKS INVOLVED

The above mindmap drawn with the help of Mindmanager 2002, was a great help to me in providing me with a quick  overview of what I had to do. 

As with every Mindmap software, the Mindmanager 2002 provided excellent links to documents, websites, ppt slides and videos. It provides me with an invaluable template of gathering all the information on a single page/slide.

My duty was to facilitate a few groups of students in preparing their motorised wheel chair model for a challenge with other groups of students. The model had to go through a series of obstacles, like opening a door, moving over bumpy ground, climbing over/down a few steps or ramp, manoeuvring through a series of columns and uneven ground before stopping at a designated area.

The project was an excellent method of getting the students to combine the various concepts of design thinking to develop a model of a motorised wheelchair that meet the needs of the customer. 

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My CPR-AED Mindmap

My CPR-AED Mind Map

This mind map is seriously meant to help people whom have successfully completed a NRC certified course on CPR-AED.

NOTE: you have not completed the NRC certified course, please use it only when you are sure how to interpret the mind map.

Please enjoy and have fun analysing the mind map!

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My First-Aid Mindmap

My First Aid Mind Map

Please enjoy and have fun analysing the mind map!

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SUMMARY of ENGRG MATERIALS (CHAP 2, 3 & 4) & Test2 (Copper. Aluminium & Polymers)

The Mind Maps below are to help the APR 2016 cohort revise for their tests 1 (18 Jun '16) & 2 (3 Aug '16).

A LH12 student, Max, asked me today how I managed to practically remember all the facts that I have mind mapped on the white board. I told him that after many years of teaching I have developed a long term memory for it. I also added that he can also achieve it for the coming class test by developing strong associations for each branch to be linked together to the next. The next step is to go through the mind map so as to enhance the learning points. Notice that no two mind maps are the same. Each is unique to each class.

Below are two mind map summaries for each of the classes (LA12 & LH12) that I taught! It was done slightly over an hour in class on the whiteboard. I have reservations over using any mind map softwares as it is practically impossible to create all the drawings, emphasis and branches in real-time on the computer within the allocated time.

A Mind Map Summary for Class LA12

A Mind Map Summary for Class LH12

CHAPTER 2 - SUMMARY

CHAPTER 3 - IRON-CARBON EQm DIAGRAM SUMMARY

CHAPTER 4 - HEAT TREATMENT SUMMARY

REVISION CHAPTERS 2, 3 & 4 (PART1)

REVISION CHAPTERS 2, 3 & 4 (PART2)

Thank you for visiting this website.

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WHAT MOTIVATES ME TO MIND MAP NOTES FOR MY STUDENTS?

What drives me to supplement my teaching with Mind Maps?  

Mind map is one of the methods that I use in helping me teach more effectively. It assists my students by making 
learning a bit easier and in a systematic manner too. Another technique I use in parallel is the powerful TEFCAS (Try, Event, Feedback, Check, Adjust and Succeed) methodology that helped motivate and encourage my students to "Try" etc...... and then "Succeed".

I would certainly recommend any one to try to learn this simple, but yet, powerful technique that came from Tony Buzan, the originator of Mind Maps.

My sincere thanks, gratitude and deep appreciation goes to all my students and colleagues for their feedback and support. They are the REAL motivators of my passion to use mind mapping and TEFCAS, in whatever work situations and to NGEE ANN POLYTECHNIC for providing a conducive teaching and learning environment. Students and colleagues have also been generous in nominating me for several teaching awards as shown below:

a) 2007/2008 Ngee Ann Polytechnic Academic Award (Development)

b) 2007/2008 School Teaching Award

c) 2008/2009 School Teaching Award

d) 2014/2015 Associate Lecturer Teaching Award (Photos).

Ngee Ann Polytechnic's Principal, Mr Clarence Ti, Presenting the "Associate Lecturer Teaching Award"

In whatever pedagogy, there would probably be some who may not agree with this unorthodox method of teaching, summarising and reinforcing learning through the use of Mind Maps and encouraging students to adopt the SUCCESS formula, TEFCAS! 

I am pleased to attach some feedbacks from students on my teaching. I hope you may find some inspiration in learning something about how I apply Mind Mapping and TEFCAS to help and motivate students associate, learn, recall and more importantly, to TRY as the first step towards SUCCESS!

Feedback From My Students

For those interested in learning mind mapping and TEFCAS, there are numerous books written by Tony Buzan that you could get from Amazon. 

For those interested to teach Mind Mapping, you may go to the following website: http://imindmap.com/training/. 

For those who wish to discuss more about it, I am pleased to assist you as a qualified practitioner of the techniques of Mind Mapping and TEFCAS.

Thank you for visiting this website.

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SUMMARY of COMPOSITE MATERIALS (CHAP 1) Using MM Software & CHAP 2, 3, 5 and 6

I did the above mind map over one or two hours, capturing the gist of the content in Chapter 1 of the Composite Materials notes. It shows how quickly a mind map could be used to summarise anything. 

Mind maps for chapters 2, 3, 5 and 6 could be found in earlier posts (1st Dec 2014 post). The mind maps are reposted here for the convenience of all.

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 5 

Chapter 6

It is very useful for me to do a quick summary and I really hope that it would be helpful too for my students. It is important to note that one has to read through the original powerpoint slides so as not to miss out on some of the details that is left out in the above mind map.
Please enjoy and have fun analysing the mind map!

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SOME ADVICE on USING MIND MAPS on CHAP 7/7A (COPPER & ALUMINIUM) & CHAP 8 (POLYMERS)

1. A MM  Worksheet on Copper, Aluminium and Polymer

2. MIND MAP OF COPPER, ALUMINIUM AND POLYMERS (DRAWN IN 2014)

3. THESE TWO MIND MAPS ARE ON THE SAME TOPICS (COPPER, ALUMINIUM & POLYMERS) (DRAWN IN 2014). THEY ARE DONE IN REAL-TIME TO STUDENTS FROM TWO DIFFERENT CLASSES.

Slightly over a year ago, I posted a series of mind maps that I did for my students as a revision for their class test on Copper, Aluminium and Polymers. (Image No. 2 and 3). As these were done on whiteboard, they appear quite "longish". Thus, I decided to do a simple Mind Map that has the right proportion of a Landscape paper as shown in Image No. 1. This mind map needs further information (such as, uses of each material) to be added by the students themselves. This will help the students have a complete overview of the things they are supposed to know.

I have always reminded my students that in order to do well for their coming class test, they need to study the power point notes FIRST, then, with the aid of the mind map, it would act as an effective summary for them.

I did a quick review of the above real-time mind maps and found them still relevant for my students. Thus, I decided, for their convenience, to reproduce it here again.

My students, good luck in your revision. Hope the above mind maps helps. If it has helped you, please help others to understand it too.

Afternote:
I did a final revision with my students yesterday and the MM below is the result. I believe, they enjoyed the summary of Chapter 7, 7A and 8. The photo was taken by my student, James Ong. 

Mind Map Summary on Copper, Aluminium and Polymers (Photo Credit: James Ong)

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QUICK REVISION MIND MAP FOR ENGRG MATERIALS - CHAP 3 and 4

SUMMARY MIND MAP OF CHAPTER 3&4 (Photo Credit: Muhammad Adli Bin Nazli)

Mind maps are extremely good to make an impactful revision in situations when time is limited, and when you want to compact as much info as you can, on just one sheet of paper or a white board. 

I did it live yesterday with a group of students on Chapter 3 & 4 as shown above. 

My earlier postings on Chapter 2 remains the same and is reproduced below for the convenience of those who needed it.

Please enjoy and have fun analysing the mind map!

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MY MIND MAP ON CHAP 2 - PHYSICAL & MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF MATERIALS, CHAP 3-PLAIN CARBON STEEL & CHAP4-HEAT TREATMENT - 19 JUNE 2015

MIND MAP COVERS PROPERTIES and VARIOUS MECHANICAL TESTS - TENSILE, HARDNESS, IMPACT, CREEP and FATIGUE.

I was pleased to have completed a mind map of Chapter 2 on Physical & Mechanical Properties of Materials. My purpose is to use it to assist my students try to remember the key points of this Chapter with the most number of powerpoint slides (74 slides in total.)
I wanted to draw two more mind maps for Chapter 3 (Plain Carbon Steels) and Chapter 4 (Heat Treatment), but, decided that the real-time MIND MAP pieces that I drew for them in class was sufficient in summarising the key points in those two chapters. Many thanks to my students who took the photos as shown below:

CHAP 3 - PLAIN CARBON STEEL (PHOTO CREDIT: GERALD LIM HUI JUN)

CHAP 4 - HEAT TREATMENT (PHOTO CREDIT: ERICK TIMOTIUS TANJAYA)

Please enjoy and have fun analysing the mind map!

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