Brainstorming

Some time ago, when I was in college, a teacher of mine told me about Mind Maps. At that time, I didn't like it very much, even after she showed our class how we could use it in classroom. Some years have passed and here are the Mind Maps in my life again. But now I can see perfectly how wonderful this tool can be.

The teacher I talked about made me work with a web tool to create Mind Maps, but I completly forgot what was that. I just remember that it was ugly, just simple lines, black and white. Well, I want to show you something that will catch your student's attention a little bit more. I'm talking about Mindomo. This is a web tool you can use to create Mind Maps. But it offers a lot of resources, even if you are a free user. You can add colors to your text boxes, you can add pictures, videos, hyperlinks, notes and a lot more.

I've created one Mind Map to use as a Brainstorming activity about Second Conditional Sentences. You can use this to make students think about some possible situations, and they would, at the same time, practice the grammar structure before they know how it is structured. It would work perfectly if you had  a projector in class.

The only bad thing about this tool is that it can't be embed to the blog. But you can print the screen and add it as picture, as I did here. I recommend you try it yourself!!!