Concept+Maps

Concept Maps Concept maps include mental maps and semantic maps. They are diagrams, which encourage creative thought. They use words, hierarchies, sequence and numbers - ans also drawings, colors and rhythm.

1) Define the main concept to be included (it helps to include an illustration) 2) This concept goes in the middle, and all other ideas branch off from this 3) Concept maps represent hierarchies of concepts. The most important ideas go in the center, and the lines that come from this are the thickest, and use few words. 4) Let your mind go free - don't think too much about what goes where - there doesn't have to any particular order to how your ideas are created. 5) Create a second version, reorganizing your ideas to find a better way of presenting them, using other important concepts, images, colors, geometric figures and codes to highlight them, arrows to relate distinct parts.