This morning, a fascinating google alert appeared in my email, a posting by Kevin Lim, University of Buffalo, describing a recent graduate seminar. The posting was accompanied by the mindmap above ..
[Recently, Kevin Lim] presented “Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything” by Don Tapscott and Anthony D. Williams at [his] graduate reading seminar. [He] created a simple mindmap as seen above, as a way of navigating the text and drawing out more thoughts during discussion.
As you will be able to tell, Wikinomics runs polar to Andrew Keen’s “The Cult of the Amateur” as well as Jaron Lanier’s “Digital Maoism“. While the latter folks speak about the hazards of the online collectivism, Wikinomics runs on a high with optimism about our new world of online collaboration and crowdsourcing.
If nothing else, a mindmap like this breaks out of the "powerpoint to death" trap - participants can't just easily "follow the bouncing" bullet from a though z. The two dimensional model immediately triggers a lot of questions that lead to thinking about the map: why is this pink and that yellow, why isn't it the reverse, why is this here and not there, etc ... Even this slight break from linearity encourages the reader to begin to develop her own authority over the subject.
We will have to experiment a bit more with this model in our plans for great leap forward ...
Resources:
[0] Kevin Lim, Mindmapping Wikinomics, flickr.com, November 9, 2007. http://www.flickr.com/photos/inju/1925928543/
[1] Kevin Lim, Mindmapping Wikinomics…, theory.isthereason.com, November 9, 2007. http://theory.isthereason.com/?p=1950
1 comment:
Yes, the mindmap wasn't semantically thought out, but it's a starting point. Check out mindmeister.com if you're into collaborative mind maps ;)
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