Learn to be a Mindmapper - Lim Choon Boo

Jan and Elly (Intermediate Phonics Course) Mindmap

2024-12-02T14:31:00.017+08:00

I initially created this mind maps out of interest, as I accompanied by grandchild to Jan and Elly’s English Phonics Intermediate course at the Rail Mall venue. The course comprises 21 lessons.

After creating five branches, I decided to continue developing the Mindmap with help from my grandchildren. There are 8 reviews as well as 4 assessments in the course.

I believe the Mindmap could help anyone keen to coach young children in phonics. Enjoy.

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MEMORY MM w SIMON - Wed, 22 JULY 2020

2020-07-26T09:36:00.001+08:00

I had an interesting meeting with my friend, Simon Hoon, to discuss some key aspects of memory. I learnt about this topic from the Late Tony Buzan, the inventor of Mind Mapping, nearly 20 years ago.

As usual, throughout our meeting, I drew a Mind Map to help me recall and explain the facts. There was great interactions and queries from my enlightened friend and the Mind Map grew and grew, like a living organism. It was really a great feeling that kept me going for 2.5 hours just to explain to my enthusiastic friend.

Just for the interests of those who visits my blog, I consciously apply most of the key memory principles, whenever I teach my students/participants. It is a great tool too, for all educators and teachers.

Enjoy the MM. Thanks.

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MIND MAP ON “DESIGN PROCESS & CONSIDERATIONS” FOR COMPOSITE MATERIALS

2020-05-25T21:59:00.002+08:00

MIND MAP ON “DESIGN PROCESS & CONSIDERATIONS” FOR COMPOSITE MATERIALS

From my experience, I find that the speed at which I create an A4 sized mind map depends on many factors. They are:

1) The amount of information present in the slides.
2) Familiarity with the topic.
3) Organisation of the slides.
4) How useful the mind map will be to my students.

As I will be using the above mind map for teaching, it is therefore, without doubt, invaluable to me. I love it as it is one of the best way to make a summary as well as introduction.

Enjoy, please.
Thanks.

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MIND MAP ON 5G: A SAFER & BETTER WORLD?

2020-01-08T12:58:00.001+08:00

SUMMARY OF 5G SEMINAR INVOLVING ERICSSON, HUA WEI & NOKIA’s CTOs

This Charles Rudd seminar was organised by the Institute of Engineers, Singapore. The focus was, "5G: A Safer & Better World?" The interesting part of the seminar was listening and mind mapping some of the relevant features, applications and strengths of three top 5G vendors' equipment respectively.

You may wish to try mind mapping while listening to the talk. It is interesting and engaging. You will never doze off. Thanks.

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MIND MAP OF A LESSON PLAN (Materials & Manufacturing Technology)

2019-10-18T13:11:00.000+08:00

Mind Map of the Lesson Plan of
"Materials & Manufacturing Technology"

Another example of how a mind map could be used to organise a lesson. It is an indispensable tool, highly recommended for the novice to the professional, as it is easy to learn and apply. Enjoy.

You may wish to try.

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Tony Buzan (2 June 1942 - 13 April 2019)

2019-04-14T14:33:00.002+08:00

My Friend, mentor and Mind Map guru, Tony Buzan, has passed away. He left a legacy and an endless string of mind warriors that span the entire world.

Photo 1: My first meeting with Tony at Shangri-la Hotel, Singapore on 10th Sep 1997.

Photo 2: A Mind Map drawn by me on a 2-day Course on “How to Get More Good Thinking in Your Organisation.” Tony was never short of encouragement.

His endorsement of “A Masterpiece” on my Mind Map at the end of his 2-day course on 12 & 13 Sep 2000 in Singapore, really blew my mind open to the potential of mind mapping in capturing the gist of anything on a piece of paper.

It changed my mindset to the management of Information and knowledge, forever!

Rest In Peace, Master Mind Warrior and the Inventor of Mind Mapping. We will miss you!!

13 April 2019

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MY 3rd OCT 2018 PRESENTATION TO COLLEAGUES ON HOW I PROBABLY THINK STUDENTS LIKE MY TEACHING.

2018-10-05T14:35:00.002+08:00

Mindmap Before Exploding

Mindmap After Exploding All Its Branches

I gave a presentation on 3 Oct 2018 to colleagues on some pointers as to some probable reasons why my students seem to like what I'm teaching them.

I was blessed to have been nominated by them for five Developmental Teaching/Teaching awards spread over the past ten years. This was after I attended the Buzan Advanced Learning Strategy Course in Oct 2005. My desire to attend this course was so great that I enrolled for it despite knowing full well that Hurricane Wilma would be in the path. I have never regretted and have always grateful to my instructors, Vanda North, Jamie Nast and Jennifer Goddard for imparting their valuable knowledge to me.

Just for the record, I have been a Mind Map enthusiast since June 1996 and a Certified Mind Map Instructor since April 1999. I have been acknowledged as a "Buzan Mentor" in 2007 by Tony Buzan, the Inventor of Mind Mapping.

Life long Learning has always been my passion in whatever I do. In today's context of fast changing technologies and skill sets, information and knowledge becomes obsolete very quickly. One must maintain the energy to keep up with the changing environment and Learn, Unlearn and Relearn in order to remain relevant in their jobs. Hence, the SkillsFuture Campaign that Singapore is promoting, is immensely important in re-equipping her workforce with relevant skills, knowledge and information needed for the global changing environment . However, people without this passion for learning and learning how to learn, WILL find it difficult to refuel their passion for learning! Let us hope, that the skills and knowledge of "Learning How To Learn" should also be considered as an essential SkillsFuture course!

The two mindmaps (with and without second/third level branches) shows how concise, but yet, so powerful on how a mindmap can assist the presenter in his delivery.

You may wish to try to use a mindmap for your next presentation. Thanks.

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ME Design Thinking Project for Students

2018-01-07T23:44:00.001+08:00

MINDMAP OF FACILITATION TASKS INVOLVED

The above mindmap drawn with the help of Mindmanager 2002, was a great help to me in providing me with a quick overview of what I had to do.

As with every Mindmap software, the Mindmanager 2002 provided excellent links to documents, websites, ppt slides and videos. It provides me with an invaluable template of gathering all the information on a single page/slide.

My duty was to facilitate a few groups of students in preparing their motorised wheel chair model for a challenge with other groups of students. The model had to go through a series of obstacles, like opening a door, moving over bumpy ground, climbing over/down a few steps or ramp, manoeuvring through a series of columns and uneven ground before stopping at a designated area.

The project was an excellent method of getting the students to combine the various concepts of design thinking to develop a model of a motorised wheelchair that meet the needs of the customer.

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My CPR-AED Mindmap

2017-10-28T00:37:00.002+08:00

My CPR-AED Mind Map

This mind map is seriously meant to help people whom have successfully completed a NRC certified course on CPR-AED.

NOTE: you have not completed the NRC certified course, please use it only when you are sure how to interpret the mind map.

Please enjoy and have fun analysing the mind map!

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My First-Aid Mindmap

2017-10-28T00:29:00.000+08:00

My First Aid Mind Map

Please enjoy and have fun analysing the mind map!

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SUMMARY of ENGRG MATERIALS (CHAP 2, 3 & 4) & Test2 (Copper. Aluminium & Polymers)

2016-06-04T21:15:00.000+08:00

The Mind Maps below are to help the APR 2016 cohort revise for their tests 1 (18 Jun '16) & 2 (3 Aug '16).

A LH12 student, Max, asked me today how I managed to practically remember all the facts that I have mind mapped on the white board. I told him that after many years of teaching I have developed a long term memory for it. I also added that he can also achieve it for the coming class test by developing strong associations for each branch to be linked together to the next. The next step is to go through the mind map so as to enhance the learning points. Notice that no two mind maps are the same. Each is unique to each class.

Below are two mind map summaries for each of the classes (LA12 & LH12) that I taught! It was done slightly over an hour in class on the whiteboard. I have reservations over using any mind map softwares as it is practically impossible to create all the drawings, emphasis and branches in real-time on the computer within the allocated time.

A Mind Map Summary for Class LA12

A Mind Map Summary for Class LH12

CHAPTER 2 - SUMMARY

CHAPTER 3 - IRON-CARBON EQm DIAGRAM SUMMARY

CHAPTER 4 - HEAT TREATMENT SUMMARY

REVISION CHAPTERS 2, 3 & 4 (PART1)

REVISION CHAPTERS 2, 3 & 4 (PART2)

Thank you for visiting this website.

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WHAT MOTIVATES ME TO MIND MAP NOTES FOR MY STUDENTS?

2015-11-06T11:46:00.003+08:00

What drives me to supplement my teaching with Mind Maps?

Mind map is one of the methods that I use in helping me teach more effectively. It assists my students by making
learning a bit easier and in a systematic manner too. Another technique I use in parallel is the powerful TEFCAS (Try, Event, Feedback, Check, Adjust and Succeed) methodology that helped motivate and encourage my students to "Try" etc...... and then "Succeed".

I would certainly recommend any one to try to learn this simple, but yet, powerful technique that came from Tony Buzan, the originator of Mind Maps.

My sincere thanks, gratitude and deep appreciation goes to all my students and colleagues for their feedback and support. They are the REAL motivators of my passion to use mind mapping and TEFCAS, in whatever work situations and to NGEE ANN POLYTECHNIC for providing a conducive teaching and learning environment. Students and colleagues have also been generous in nominating me for several teaching awards as shown below:

a) 2007/2008 Ngee Ann Polytechnic Academic Award (Development)

b) 2007/2008 School Teaching Award

c) 2008/2009 School Teaching Award

d) 2014/2015 Associate Lecturer Teaching Award (Photos).

Ngee Ann Polytechnic's Principal, Mr Clarence Ti, Presenting the "Associate Lecturer Teaching Award"

In whatever pedagogy, there would probably be some who may not agree with this unorthodox method of teaching, summarising and reinforcing learning through the use of Mind Maps and encouraging students to adopt the SUCCESS formula, TEFCAS!

I am pleased to attach some feedbacks from students on my teaching. I hope you may find some inspiration in learning something about how I apply Mind Mapping and TEFCAS to help and motivate students associate, learn, recall and more importantly, to TRY as the first step towards SUCCESS!

Feedback From My Students

For those interested in learning mind mapping and TEFCAS, there are numerous books written by Tony Buzan that you could get from Amazon.

For those interested to teach Mind Mapping, you may go to the following website: http://imindmap.com/training/.

For those who wish to discuss more about it, I am pleased to assist you as a qualified practitioner of the techniques of Mind Mapping and TEFCAS.

Thank you for visiting this website.

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SUMMARY of COMPOSITE MATERIALS (CHAP 1) Using MM Software & CHAP 2, 3, 5 and 6

2015-10-30T13:46:00.000+08:00

I did the above mind map over one or two hours, capturing the gist of the content in Chapter 1 of the Composite Materials notes. It shows how quickly a mind map could be used to summarise anything.

Mind maps for chapters 2, 3, 5 and 6 could be found in earlier posts (1st Dec 2014 post). The mind maps are reposted here for the convenience of all.

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

It is very useful for me to do a quick summary and I really hope that it would be helpful too for my students. It is important to note that one has to read through the original powerpoint slides so as not to miss out on some of the details that is left out in the above mind map.
Please enjoy and have fun analysing the mind map!

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SOME ADVICE on USING MIND MAPS on CHAP 7/7A (COPPER & ALUMINIUM) & CHAP 8 (POLYMERS)

2015-08-03T08:06:00.003+08:00

1. A MM Worksheet on Copper, Aluminium and Polymer

2. MIND MAP OF COPPER, ALUMINIUM AND POLYMERS (DRAWN IN 2014)

3. THESE TWO MIND MAPS ARE ON THE SAME TOPICS (COPPER, ALUMINIUM & POLYMERS) (DRAWN IN 2014). THEY ARE DONE IN REAL-TIME TO STUDENTS FROM TWO DIFFERENT CLASSES.

Slightly over a year ago, I posted a series of mind maps that I did for my students as a revision for their class test on Copper, Aluminium and Polymers. (Image No. 2 and 3). As these were done on whiteboard, they appear quite "longish". Thus, I decided to do a simple Mind Map that has the right proportion of a Landscape paper as shown in Image No. 1. This mind map needs further information (such as, uses of each material) to be added by the students themselves. This will help the students have a complete overview of the things they are supposed to know.

I have always reminded my students that in order to do well for their coming class test, they need to study the power point notes FIRST, then, with the aid of the mind map, it would act as an effective summary for them.

I did a quick review of the above real-time mind maps and found them still relevant for my students. Thus, I decided, for their convenience, to reproduce it here again.

My students, good luck in your revision. Hope the above mind maps helps. If it has helped you, please help others to understand it too.

Afternote:
I did a final revision with my students yesterday and the MM below is the result. I believe, they enjoyed the summary of Chapter 7, 7A and 8. The photo was taken by my student, James Ong.

Mind Map Summary on Copper, Aluminium and Polymers (Photo Credit: James Ong)

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QUICK REVISION MIND MAP FOR ENGRG MATERIALS - CHAP 3 and 4

2015-07-21T13:45:00.003+08:00

SUMMARY MIND MAP OF CHAPTER 3&4 (Photo Credit: Muhammad Adli Bin Nazli)

Mind maps are extremely good to make an impactful revision in situations when time is limited, and when you want to compact as much info as you can, on just one sheet of paper or a white board.

I did it live yesterday with a group of students on Chapter 3 & 4 as shown above.

My earlier postings on Chapter 2 remains the same and is reproduced below for the convenience of those who needed it.

Please enjoy and have fun analysing the mind map!

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MY MIND MAP ON CHAP 2 - PHYSICAL & MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF MATERIALS, CHAP 3-PLAIN CARBON STEEL & CHAP4-HEAT TREATMENT - 19 JUNE 2015

2015-06-19T00:50:00.002+08:00

MIND MAP COVERS PROPERTIES and VARIOUS MECHANICAL TESTS - TENSILE, HARDNESS, IMPACT, CREEP and FATIGUE.

I was pleased to have completed a mind map of Chapter 2 on Physical & Mechanical Properties of Materials. My purpose is to use it to assist my students try to remember the key points of this Chapter with the most number of powerpoint slides (74 slides in total.)
I wanted to draw two more mind maps for Chapter 3 (Plain Carbon Steels) and Chapter 4 (Heat Treatment), but, decided that the real-time MIND MAP pieces that I drew for them in class was sufficient in summarising the key points in those two chapters. Many thanks to my students who took the photos as shown below:

CHAP 3 - PLAIN CARBON STEEL (PHOTO CREDIT: GERALD LIM HUI JUN)

CHAP 4 - HEAT TREATMENT (PHOTO CREDIT: ERICK TIMOTIUS TANJAYA)

Please enjoy and have fun analysing the mind map!

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MY MINDMAP OF CPR, CHOKING, BLEEDING & BURNS on 1st and 2nd April 2015

2015-04-12T11:06:00.002+08:00

CPR - CARDIO PULMONARY RESUSCITATION

I really had an enjoyable day in Nairobi taking a short First Aid course on CPR, Choking, Bleeding and Burns. The course was conducted by Lindsay Spainhour Baker, an American Heart Association Basic Life Support Trainer with a host of other impressive qualifications.

After the intensive course with close supervision by Lindsay, I feel confident to render CPR assistance to anyone who happens to need it.

Wish everyone is healthy and do not need this kind of assistance. Haha.

The mind maps for the other FA components will be inserted in due course.

Please enjoy and have fun analysing the mind map!

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MIND MAPS FOR COMPOSITES ON DESIGN (CHAP2), MANUFACTURING PROCESSES (CHAP3), REPAIR (CHAP5) & QUALITY CONTROL (CHAP6)

2014-12-01T07:53:00.000+08:00

CHAPTER 2 - CONCEPTION & DESIGN of COMPOSITES

As there was only one week before my students' assessment, I realised that the only way to conduct a fairly comprehensive revision with them was to make a mind map for each of the chapter. Thus, over the weekend, I did a few mind maps for them as shown below.

CHAPTER 3 - COMPOSITES MANUFACTURING PROCESSES

CHAPTER 5 - REPAIR OF COMPOSITES

CHAPTER 6 - QUALITY CONTROL OF COMPOSITES

Please enjoy and have fun analysing the mind map!

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MIND MAP OF A "CREATIVITY & INNOVATION WEEK" EVENT

2014-11-26T12:32:00.000+08:00

COORDINATING INSTRUCTIONS on an A6-sized MIND MAP.

As always, an enormous event such as the above C & I Week comes with many programmes. With the large number of facilitators and students involved, the organisers have to provide detailed coordinating instructions necessary to ensure success.

As I sat in the lecture theatre listening attentively as the programme and instructions unfolded in front of us, I quickly "captured" (mindmapped) the essence of what I need to know (e.g. 9INNOVA, Challenging Projects and Workshops involved, Duties of the Facilitators, etc...) so as hopefully, able to successfully dovetail the C&I week's programme smoothly into the 9INNOVA module.

I felt a certain sense of calmness (unlike during the first briefing) and had a very happy feeling at this second briefing for all the facilitators, as I looked down on the A6-sized mind map that I have completed in real-time.

In my humble opinion, it generally showed that the organisers have covered practically all angles in organising this event. Well done!

Hopefully this C&I Week programme will supplement 9INNOVA and help students gain a different mindset in terms of Creativity and Innovation.

AFTERNOTE:
After attending a third meeting, I made some minor changes (Emergency telephone no. 64606999) to the mind map above and update it my blog. I also realised that students have to achieve their goal of completing the following 3 parts:
a) Designing and Writing their ePoster for their challenging project
b) Designing and Constructing a cardboard model of their challenging project, and,
c) Designing and Editing a video on their challenging project in which they make use of a Line Hugging Robot (LHR) to illustrate/simulate how they would go about solving the problem of their project.

Students have to achieve the above tasks, so that they would be able to make further presentations to anyone else using the ePoster and the recorded video. Thus, this means that the group would have to delegate jobs/tasks to all three tasks to members of the team.

The mind map helps one in having an overview of the entire project.

Please enjoy and have fun analysing the mind map!

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MIND MAP on CHALLENGE-BASED LEARNING, VISUAL THINKING & FUTURES THINKING by BEATRICE TAN LI KHOON

2014-11-08T17:02:00.002+08:00

WHAT IS CHALLENGE-BASED LEARNING? by Beatrice Tan Li Khoon on 18 Sep 2014, 2-3pm, NP

I have always been interested in learning about various teaching and learning (T&L) techniques and how it could do to help as many students to be focus and learn as much as possible in class. One of the techniques that I frequently advocated and championed is the "Use of Mind Mapping in Teaching and Learning". However, this post is not about this, but, about three mini-T&L techniques conducted by Ms Beatrice Tan that I attended on the 18 Sep 2014, 2 to 5pm at Ngee Ann Polytechnic.

I was glad to have attended all three 1hour-session and learned a great deal from the course leader. The courses were:
a) Challenge-based Learning
b) Visual Thinking
c) Futures Thinking

As in all real-time mind mapping recordings, I took note of the duration of the course, its content and synopsis etc...and then set about preparing to mind map the courses so that I could make reference to it from time to time.

All three mini-mind maps are shown in this post. Each is drawn, surprisingly, on only an A6-size sheet of paper. Not many could believe it. Nevertheless, I attached an A4-size paper (Please see the image at the end of this post), which I then folded it into the A6-size paper that I used for my three mind maps. I completed it with an A6 room of paper to spare. On hindsight, it amazes me, but, I just want to share the joy of being able to do record 3hrs of interesting T&L lectures, with all budding mind mappers. I just needed to challenge myself.

Each topic interests me as it engages the brain on how students (and also educators) today should be thinking in the 21st century. I have always been advocating a lot about the visual impact that mind mapping has on learners. As one can see in my blog, I use mind mapping extensively in engaging my students in teaching and learning activities.

Please enjoy and have fun challenging yourself in interpreting the mind map!

b) VISUAL THINKING

WHAT IS VISUAL THINKING? by Beatrice Tan Li Khoon on 18 Sep 2014, 3-4pm, NP

Mind mappers, in my humble opinion, are people with very strong visual skills. Could learning mind mapping skills help students to develop critical thinking, problem-solving, innovation skills that are very essential in the 21st Century?

I shall leave this question unanswered as I know there are many answers to it. Haha......!

I once did a real-time mind map of John Naisbitt's talk when he was invited by the Singapore Institute of Management (SIM) to its 26th SIM Annual Management Lecture (AML) on 23 Aug 2007. (You may view this mind map by just googling for, "John Naisbitt AML mind map").

Dr John Naisbitt, renown for his 1982 prediction of the rise of China in his book "Megatrends" long before China was seen as a serious competitor of the United States of America, made the prediction of a global "Visual Culture" in the 21st Century in his book, "MindSet!". Please read this book or my mind map to know it all about it.

c) FUTURES THINKING

WHAT IS FUTURES THINKING? by Beatrice Tan Li Khoon on 18 Sep 2014, 4-5pm, NP

As educators, beside teaching the students the necessary knowledge and skills for the module that they are supposed to be competent, I have always given due thoughts, on how to engage our students in critical and creative thinking, problem-solving, ...... haha.

Beatrice raised a very important point on why educators should be engaged in "FUTURES THINKING" in revising their curriculum to meet 21st century innovation....... e.g. the kind of impact 3D printing has, on what the students should learn? What type of engineering material is used? What kind of content and skills sets should the students have to meet emerging technologies?

d) An Overview of the 3-in1 Mind Maps on an A4 paper

3-in-1 SUMMARY MIND MAPS DRAWN by LIM CHOON BOO ON A SINGLE A4 PAPER ON THE ABOVE THREE TOPICS. It was done in REAL TIME ON 18 Sep 2014, 2-5pm, NP

Please enjoy and have fun learning how to optimise your mind maps and save paper. Haha.

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MIND MAP ON COPPER, ALUMINIUM and POLYMERS for POLY Students on 29 JUL 2014

2014-07-30T10:48:00.000+08:00

LN12-Revision Mind Map on Copper, Aluminium and Polymers. (Photo Credit by Ms Catherine Liu Ning)

I was fortunate to have my colleague, Ms Catherine Liu Ning observed how I drew a real-time Mind Map summary of the topics on Copper, Aluminium and Polymers that I have lectured to my students during the past weeks.

An original photo is also attached below to help students keen on having a copy of the summary. I hope to be able to inspire my students to continue adding more branches and information onto the mind map that I have given, and DO IT IN COLOUR.

This would really help them to revise these topics anywhere at home, in the bus or in the polytechnic without having the text with them. However, this could only be USEFUL, if and only if, the students read the original slides first and understand them.

It was quite an experience drawing mind maps after mind maps for my students. Please view and compare other similar mind maps that were drawn for different lecture groups (LN12, LA12 and LA34 respectively). See any differences? The differences depended on the amount of interactiveness with the students.

LA12-Revision Mind Map on Copper, Aluminium and Polymers. (Photo Credit by Matthew Wong)

LA34-Revision Mind Map on Copper, Aluminium and Polymers. (Photo Credit by Gary Ling)

Please enjoy and have fun analysing the mind map!
Thanks to Catherine, Matthew and Gary for the photos taken.

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MIND MAP ON JAPAN FUKUSHIMA - HIDDEN TRUTH

2014-06-12T22:44:00.001+08:00

BRIEF SUMMARY OF JAPAN FUKUSHIMA - HIDDEN TRUTHS OF RADIATION CONTAMINATION DUE TO NUCLEAR PLANTS THAT WERE DESTROYED BY THE 11 MARCH 2011 (311) TSUNAMI

Some friends forwarded youtube links which I find interesting. You may also like to view it?

http://tinyurl.com/FUKUSHIMA-VICE (13mins)

http://tinyurl.com/FUKUSHIMA-FARMERS-ANGRY (9mins)

http://tinyurl.com/FUKUSHIMA-TOKYO-DOCTOR

http://tinyurl.com/FUKUSHIMA-TOKYO-DOCTOR-WARNS

It really motivated me to do a simple mind map using my iMindmap software to summarise what really happened since the 11 March 2011 tsunami that struck Japan.

Well, I thought I could do a bit of research on the internet so as to add a few useful write-ups and video interviews from experts both within and outside of Japan, to say something about what is really happening to the nuclear disaster and the subsequent cleaning up operation that is still taking place under lots of secrecies. It seems that many millions of innocent people are still visiting Japan...... apparantly being not aware of the health hazard.

To add salt to injury, Japan just pushed through a Secrecy Bill that "...journalists and whistle-blowers can go to jail for reporting what the government doesn't want the public to know....". Is Japan hiding something? You may read all about it from William Pesek's Bloomberg View article:

http://tinyurl.com/JAPAN-SECRECY-BILL

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Update: The secrecy bill has become part of Japanese Law as of 10 Dec 2014. To a layman like myself, I would interpret it that we should be aware of what you say, write or do with reference to any Japanese Government Policies in Japan. Does it violate the secrecy bill? Beware......! If it does, you may find yourself jailed up to 10 years. Haha. Do you find it curtailing the thoughts and creativity of the human mind in the areas of government policies? Would it lead to improvements? Would bad practices and wrong policies be swept under the carpet? etc........!
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Decide and judge for yourself. To visit Japan or not? Remember radiation stays for hundreds of years...... Google for the tons of information....and....if, after all the news/research about the dangers of fukushima radiation which Japanese scientists found, one still wants to visit Japan, then, there is nothing that the mind could not creatively think or find a reason to do so!

Frankly, I think, one may not find out about the radiation sickness until it probably affect the second or third generation in one's family. By that time, it is obviously too late.... as one may not even be around. It is quite sad.....especially since it is something that is preventable, if one knows about it. Right?

A friend jokingly threw me a challenge that he is willing to sponsor my trip to the land of the rising sun -- first class all the way.....but, I declined to give him an answer. He should know my answer just by reading/viewing the above interesting links - The second video is much longer (38mins) and gives quite a complete summary from the beginning of the tsunami that struck on 11 March 2011 (311) till today.

http://tinyurl.com/FUKUSHIMA-BREAKING-NEWS

Please enjoy and have fun analysing the mind map!

Hope it helps to throw some light of what is happening, in Fukushima, .....in Japan and ....in the world today! How the radiation contamination could affect the world food chain.

Are there any suggestions that we could give to the Japanese Government to help in the radiation cleaning up operation? ABE hopes to clean up by "TOKYO 2020"! .... But....., Where are they going to dispose/hide the tons of radiated Fukushima top soil? How are they going to contain the radiated Fukushima cooling water that is seeping away into the Pacific? How transparent is Japan in her responsibility to warn visitors about the radiation? What is the possible TRUE extent of the radiation effects on the people of Japan and the world? Can we trust the Japanese government to give an HONEST report?......because, the real truth may create a panic??

You decide......! Thank you.

SOME NOTES ON THE MIND MAP:
The mind map that I drew above definitely violated one cardinal rule in mind mapping. If you have seen my mind map on the "LAWS of MM" you would have noticed that I used many words in one branch instead of one word per branch in some areas. Why is this so?

The purpose is to help readers to quickly understand what I was trying to say in my blog than to figure out the keywords that I used for each branch. Why? The answer lies with the brain. Each of us associates differently with each of the keywords used. Thus to make my mindmap "readable" to a wider audience, I add more words per branch for some areas, and in others, I maintained the one word per branch rule. Hope it explains my deviation from the norm.

AFTERNOTE:
After writing the above, I recalled reading Singapore's AVA Media Release that imports suspension for the following food stuff - " para. 4 - fruits and vegetables, milk/milk products, meat, green tea and green tea products, and rice" have been lifted from Fukushima in Japan with effect from 31 May 2014. It also added that the following food products - " para. 6 - seafood and products from the forest as well as agricultural produce from demarcated areas and the control zone (close to the nuclear power plant) in Fukushima prefecture are not allowed to be imported"......and also added that the same products "from the prefectures of Ibaraki, Tochigi and Gunma will still require pre-export tests".

One may read about the full detailed announcement from AVA's website: "AVA EASES RESTRICTIONS ON IMPORT OF FOOD FROM JAPAN" at http://www.ava.gov.sg/ .

The above news was also reported in an Online news website. The first paragraph of the news from AVA Singapore that was reported gave one an impression that "....food from Fukushima prefecture, is being eased.....! However, it is ONLY upon reading the full text of the AVA Media Release that one will fully understand the entire scope of the lifting of food suspension from Fukushima as I have quoted.

COMMENTS:
1. Please read the full scope of AVA's Media Release document on the lifting of food restriction before you start consuming something that even the Japanese AND Locals living in Japan are afraid of taking it?? Haha.

http://tinyurl.com/FUKUSHIMA-FOOD-SAFETY

2. I suddenly felt that the online news that was reported by a quite reputable News Online website should have been more responsible to report the FULL extent of the lifting of the food suspension rather than leaving it to the reader to open AVA's Media Release pdf document. Para 4 tells of the lifting of some food products....BUT, para. 6 tells of some food imports (from Fukushima) restrictions that still remains.

3. Although AVA wrote that they "...like to assure the (Singapore) public that food imported from Japan that is available in the (Singapore) market is safe for consumption", I still remain sceptical about consuming any Japanese food, drinks, etc...... for now and a few hundred years. We all know, radiation in food that we consume, accumulates in the body over time....!

You have to decide - to consume or not! Good luck and thank you for reading.

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MIND MAP on CPF CASE - FOR or AGAINST - 7 JUNE 2014

2014-06-08T14:31:00.000+08:00

"CPF - FOR or AGAINST" DEBATE

As a Singaporean, I read and viewed many postings in ST, CNA, various blogs etc..... on a very recent topic of public interest, i.e. our Central Provident Fund (CPF).

Gathering the facts and trying to get an overview of what the arguments are all about, could be quite difficult as each side tend to offer their side of the story.

I quickly drew a simple Mind Map using my iPad's iMindMap(PRO) software to list some key points "For or Against" CPF while it is still fresh in my mind. I noted the growth of the CPF from 1974 to include lots of amendments and additions as Singapore changes. Wouldn't it be interesting to draw a giant CPF Mind Map on the purposes for its formation/evolution, from birth till this present age?

Notice that the mind map is an extremely useful compact tool to brainstorm and analyse the pros and cons of a very controversial topic. We should judge every debate to provide information/data as delightful and interesting......if not, it would be very difficult to keep focus.

Please enjoy and have fun analysing the mind map!

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REVISION MIND MAP for CHAP 2, 3 and 4 (ENGRG MATERIALS)

2014-06-03T12:39:00.000+08:00

MIND MAP REVISION OF CHAP 2, 3 & 4 ENGINEERING MATERIALS (Photo credit: Muhammad Nur Azhari B Md Ishak, LN12)

ANOTHER REVISION MIND MAP on CHAPTERS 2 to 4 (Photo Credit: MUHAMMAD SYAHIN, LA34)

As there was time left after completing my lecture on Chapter 5, I quickly did an "interactive" mind map revision with my students on Chapter 2, 3 and 4.

One of the strongest advantages of mind maps is that one can do a fast summary and yet, at the end of the mind map, you get a feeling of completeness or a sense that you have made quite a good overview of the topics that you have taught.

Afternote:
Notice I added another revision mind map that I did for another class. Basically the main branches, key words and graphical pictures used are the same except for some minor additional branches. Why? These extra branches comes from questions prompted by the students themselves. See how easy it is to take or make notes in a mind map format?

Please enjoy and have fun analysing the mind map!

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MIND MAP SUMMARIES of ENGINEERING MATERIALS (CHAP 3 & 4)

2014-06-01T14:51:00.003+08:00

CHAP3 PCS - NOTICE HOW I LINKED BRANCHES TO KEY WORDS LIKE, HARDENING, NORMALIZING, EUCTECTOID, EUTECTIC, ETC. (Photo Credit: MAI SHUN HAN)

NOTICE HOW CHAP3 INFORMATION IS LINKED TO CHAP4? THE NORMALISING, HARDENING, FULL ANNEALING, PROCESS ANNEALING, SPHERIODISATION ANNEALING PROCESSES AS WELL AS THE TEMPERING AND COOLING RATES OF VARIOUS QUENCHING MEDIA IS SHOWN. (Photo Credit: LIU CHAO)

The above postings reflect just one of my different styles of teaching engineering materials to my students. It is so different from the way I remembered how my professor taught me this very important subject during my undergraduate days. At that time there was no powerpoint slides - only OHPs, his voice and the blackboard. He seldom used the board and frequently read the notes from his textbook.

I hope, many of my students find the above graphical illustrations useful and that they find it easy to digest the important key points that will help them remember.

One may wonder why I posted these illustrations as Mind Maps. I regarded them as Central Images for the various Chapters that I am teaching. The branches that "comes" out of the picture provided the necessary association and hence, enable my students to remember useful key information easily.

Please enjoy and have fun analysing the mind map!

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