| Visual Thinking: Tools for Mapping Your Ideas Contributor(s): Margulies, Nancy (Author) |
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ISBN: 1904424562 ISBN-13: 9781904424567 Publisher: Crown House Publishing OUR PRICE: $25.16 Product Type: Paperback Published: March 2005 Annotation: Free yourself from the limiting belief that you can?t draw and move into the world of visible thinking. With this book you will be able to build on what you already know about the skill of communicating in words and pictures, lead students through activities that promote thinking skills, and make your classroom a more lively and engaging place to learn. Margulies and Valenza, two of the best-known visual facilitators in the business world, bring their expertise to the classroom and share their secrets for conveying complex ideas simply. If one picture is worth a thousand words, this book is worth millions. The authors have compiled a ?Symbolary? of easy draw iconographs that can be used to enrich communication, provoke deeper thought, and make the process of mind mapping a breeze. Ten years ago Mapping Inner Space was published, bringing the concept of mapping and making Mindscapes to thousands of classrooms throughout the world. This book has even more ideas about using mapping and Mindscaping in the classroom, more symbols, and more templates that students can use to help them think through challenging problems. If Mapping Inner Space got you fired up and asking for more, then this is the book for you. ?A wonderful, inviting workbook. With this book, nobody has an excuse like ?but I can't draw.? And teachers, parents, and kids will delight in the ease and fun of doing it. The authors have provided easy-to-follow tips for drawing, over 500 simple-to-draw icons and visual symbols, and more than a dozen templates for putting together ideas to create and convey larger patterns of thoughts.?--Robert E. Horn, author of Visual Language: Global Communication for the 21st Century |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Education | Learning Styles - Education | Classroom Management - Education | Decision Making & Problem Solving |
| Dewey: 372 |
| LCCN: 2004111450 |
| Physical Information: 0.51" H x 8.46" W x 11.08" (1.13 lbs) 176 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Free yourself from the limiting belief that you can't draw and move into the world of visible thinking. With this book you will be able to build on what you already know about the skill of communicating in words and pictures, lead students through activities that promote thinking skills, and make your classroom a more lively and engaging place to learn. Margulies and Valenza, two of the best-known visual facilitators in the business world, bring their expertise to the classroom and share their secrets for conveying complex ideas simply. If one picture is worth a thousand words, this book is worth millions. The authors have compiled a Symbolary of easy to draw iconographs that can be used to enrich communication, provoke deeper thought, and make the process of mind-mapping a breeze. Ten years ago Mapping Inner Space (ISBN 1904424473) was published, bringing the concept of mapping and making Mindscapes to thousands of classrooms throughout the world. This book has even more ideas about using mapping and mindscaping in the classroom, more symbols, and more templates that students can use to help them think through challenging problems. If Mapping Inner Space got you fired up and asking for more, then this is the book for you. |
Contributor Bio(s): Margulies, Nancy: - As entrepreneur, author, and creative resource, Nancy's clients are as diverse as the Clinton White House and Cabinet, the Dalai Lama, and scores of Fortune 500 companies including Intel, Boeing, and Xerox. She is well known for her development of Mindscaping, the visual mapping of complex concepts.Her most recent books are short fiction, Short Shorts: Sudden Fiction and Animal Husband published by Mel C Thompson. |