End of Your Weekly Tutor – The dawn of a new era
This is the last of Your Weekly Tutor articles as you’ve come to know it. If you are sad because you’ve been looking forward to getting a weekly tip into you email inbox, don’t worry, something else and hopefully something better will replace it.I started the ‘your weekly tutor’ to serve two purposes. Firstly, to create content for my new blogging website, MindMapTutor.com and secondly, to get a mailing list of followers that could serve as a yardstick to measure my degree of success, or failure. I am now happy...
read moreGoogle, The Internet, Mind Maps and Tribes
Learning in the Digital Age… This week’s article starts with a quote of Chris Brogan, which summarises some aspects of learning in the Digital Age. “You probably don’t give yourself credit for all you DO know about social media: You know about YouTube, that it’s more than dogs on skateboards. You know about Facebook, that it’s not just for kids any more. You know about blogs, and at least two places you can blog for free. You know the difference in mainstream news and social news. You know where to find tech advice,...
read moreMaintaining Lifelong Learning
When everything changes… As a South African, I feel an extreme sense of pride and joy, as I am posting this article on the birthday of the great Nelson Mandela. Today, 18 July, has been declared international ‘Mandela Day‘ by the United Nations General Assembly, where everyone is encouraged to do some good for humanity on this day. This article, the free articles on MindMapTutor.com and UsingMindMaps.com, as well as the free weekly tips are all done in the spirit of giving before you get. Today, I would like you to put...
read moreTechnique!
Are you putting in more and more effort, but getting less and less rewards? This is called the Law of diminishing returns. Years ago, I purchased a book written by Tony Little called ‘Technique! Target Training for a Fat-Free body’. While he is quite a controversial character and self proclaimed “America’s personal trainer”, his advice on technique stuck with me. If you look at any of the top performing athletes, you will see that most of them have a technical coach. As good as they are, they are constantly...
read moreGetting Things Done – The Pomodoro Technique
The recent articles, Basic Ordering Ideas and Expanding Basic Ordering Ideas coincided with the launch of our new expanded Learning Management Program, which now consists of 10 Modules. The program is available as an affordable Ebook as well as an interactive Mind Map, which needs the OpenSource software, Xmind. This program gives you all the knowledge, skills, attitudes and values required to put together your own Learning Management Program. By following the instructions, advice and tips in the program, you will learn how to learn using...
read moreExpanding Basic Ordering Ideas – The Birth of the MindMapTutor
I am often asked whether I oppose, or disagree with, Tony Buzan’s Mind Map Principles. (For those of you that don’t know, Tony Buzan is the inventor of the Mind Map.) Nothing is further from the truth! I pay lots of homage to Tony Buzan, as he is the master. I am but a humble student. But, I have taken his instructions to Accept, Apply and Adapt and used it in the development of the MindMapTutor concept and use it as a Tutor or Teacher. The MindMapTutor is used to not only teach by using Mind Maps, but to teach without the use of a...
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