[stylist] Mind mapping

Ashley Bramlett bookwormahb at earthlink.net
Wed Oct 19 19:15:39 UTC 2011


Brenda,
You could put the ideas in powerpoint. But IMO, a thing like this works best 
in braille.

-----Original Message----- 
From: Brenda
Sent: Wednesday, October 19, 2011 12:26 PM
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Subject: Re: [stylist] Mind mapping

Would it work to use a Power Point presentation?  (although I don't know
a thing about PP)
Brenda

On 10/19/2011 12:04 PM, Daniel Meek wrote:
> In my opinion; mind mapping appears to be a form of brainstorming.  It
> displays a visual representation of the brainstorming process centered
> around one central idea or theme.  I suppose the visual purpose of this
> exercise would be to provide you with a logic chain or map of where each
> idea was born and created after.
>
>
> As a blind person, we could create a similar, non-visual, process using a
> spreadsheet or text editor.  We are just basically linking each idea with
> its preceding idea.  You would want to set up your spreadsheet or text
> document in a way that would allow you to skip around, unconstrained, 
> from
> idea to idea.  Perhaps, Microsoft Word could be used through the use of an
> outline (bullets or numerical) with each new line of thought going down in
> order of hierarchy.
>
>
> These are just my unqualified thoughts on the topic.  Hopefully, I have
> contributed a little to this topic.
>
> Daniel
>
>
>
> On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 10:37 AM, Homme, 
> James<james.homme at highmark.com>wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>> The descriptions I have seen so far obscure the purpose with visual
>> language. If I can understand the purpose, I can figure out a non-visual 
>> way
>> to do it, and whether it is worth doing at all or not.
>>
>> Jim
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: stylist-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:stylist-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
>> Behalf Of Barbara Hammel
>> Sent: Wednesday, October 19, 2011 11:30 AM
>> To: bjnite at windstream.net; Writer's Division Mailing List
>> Subject: Re: [stylist] Mind mapping
>>
>> I also find it quite intriguing but haven't quite figured out what it's 
>> all
>> about and why you'd do it.
>> Barbara
>>
>>
>>
>>
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Brenda
>> Sent: Wednesday, October 19, 2011 10:12 AM
>> To: Writer's Division Mailing List
>> Subject: Re: [stylist] Mind mapping
>>
>> I have been watching this thread with interest.  could you keep the
>> topic going on the list so I can learn more?
>> Brenda
>>
>>
>>
>> On 10/19/2011 10:48 AM, The Crowd wrote:
>>> I don't know how you would do it on the computer. I did mine in braille.
>>>
>>> If you'd like to write me off list we can talk more about it though.
>>>
>>> Warmly,
>>> Atty
>>>
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