Let's review the course syllabus, course topics or mindmap and the course evaluation.

In this module you'll be introduced to Inspiration. Concept mapping software will help you organize presentations, writing tasks, projects... just about anything! Here is another simple example: Student Behaviour.

I will walk you through a demonstration of Inspiration, a program that is useful in organizing your thoughts as you prepare a presentation. It's also useful for your students to use while organizing what they are learning in the form of concept maps. You will learn how to:

• Use rapid fire to generate a lot of ideas quickly
• Link ideas to each other
• Label the links
• Alternate between outline and graphic views
• Reorganize your ideas in either outline or graphic form
• Change the appearance of a bubble

To put the lecture into practice:

• Working in pairs, create a concept map or cluster around one of these central ideas:
  • What women don't understand about men (or vice versa)
  • Planning the perfect party
  • Why you can't live without Facebook
• I wil call time and ask you to move to another computer. Look at what your classmates did and add at least three new ideas to the diagram. If you see ways to reorganize the diagram so that larger ideas subsume smaller ones, go ahead to make that change.

After several pairs have gotten their hands on your initial diagram, you'll get to return to your original seat. Examine how your diagram has changed. Are 8 heads better than 2?

Then practice colorizing and spiffifying the map and be ready to show it to the class as a whole.