MindMapping!

If you haven't tried mindmapping, you're missing out on a fantastic tool!

I discovered mindmapping a few years ago when I was looking for a way to organize and plan a website step-by-step in a visual environment without using paper and pencil. Not only does mindmapping allow you great flexibility in planning, it serves as a system whereby you can brainstorm and organize at the same time. It's easy to create, edit, delete and move your ideas around on the screen. Currently, I use MindMeister.

I also designed our department events workflow here at UHM Center for Teaching Excellence. When the workflow changes or evolves, I jump on MindMeister and update it in a minute or two!

Mindmapping in Education caught my eye recently when I read this article from EmergingEdTech:

Teaching Creativity – The Case for Mind Mapping by Jane Karwoski, PhD on October 10, 2013

Google Forms: Embed YouTube Videos!

You can now embed a video right inside your Google Form!

This is a big WOW! Here's how:

To add a video to your form, click the Insert menu, and select Video. To pick a video, either provide a YouTube video’s URL, or use the search box to search for a video. After selecting one, you can add a title and a caption to the video. You can click and drag one of the video's corners to resize it, and you can align the video to the left, right, or center of the page by choosing one of the alignment options.

Try it out! It couldn't be easier! 

Educators: You can create quizzes with questions directly related to the video embedded in the Google Form!