My favorite box is the plain box. It has three great uses: Brainstorming Categorizing When no other box will do Brainstorming In bCisive (Online and desktop) and Rationale you can get an empty box by just double-clicking on the workspace. This is great for brain-storming — just getting ideas onto the workspace: Brainstorming for this…
Along with free-form mapping to encourage the development of critical thinking skills, Rationale includes a nifty Essay Planner to help students learn how to plan and produce clear, well-written essays. We’ve produced a 3-minute video showing the Essay Planner in action: (To watch it at full size, click Play and then click the title or the YouTube logo) If you’d…
Visual thinking is probably most effective when using a suitable methodology as an aid to construction and communication. Simply said Visual methodology = visual language + rules of thumb For example, bCisive Online comes with the following set of boxes, which together making up its out-of-the-box visual language: This set descends from the non-visual Issue-based information…