Concept Map Basics
Begin with these concept maps about concept maps. Tip: Clicking the images enlarges to full size. Conceptmap represents organized knowledge Both of these concept maps were created elsewhere. CmapAboutCmapsLarge Concept...
Archive index
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Data visualization article elsewhere
Must read to widen one's perspectives on the beauty of data.
Knowledge and an interview with Dr. Novak
Part 1 Part 2
Seeing with the eyes or the not.
Marlene Behrmann, CMU His affliction, she says, is more profound -- it's not a problem of the eyes, but of the mind's eye. People rely so much on vision that it is not surprising that the human brain is designed to...
Open knowledge
ANDREW SULLIVAN SAYS: 'THE INTERNET DID IT' Prominent blogger-journalist Andrew Sullivan, former editor of the New Republic magazine, says that the Internet should be given much of the credit for forcing the resignation...
Biggerplate has plenty of fun offerings
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Concept Maps help get people onto the same page so action can occur more quickly
Athletic teams are for learning new skills and developing relationships Pittsburgh is a sports town. Meanwhile, its athletic, aquatics, and swimming programs are due for an exciting overhaul. The aquatics concept map,...
Brand Mapping, a podcast to explain it
There are many people who think of branding as either the visuals or what we call the brand identity – the logo, the website, the colors, or the fonts. Some think of branding as an elevator pitch. On this week's...
Course proposal for high school students in a two-week mini-course
High-Value Web Communications with Concept Maps & WordPress Learn about open-source, high-tech software for making concept maps. This fun communication tool aids one's thought process in deeper, complex topics. Build...
100 day challenge
Link: https://blog.biggerplate.com/100-days-of-mind-mapping-72729ef9e0e4 Best talent mindmap is how you think. Mindmap from a 100-day challenge. Thinking matters.
Play develops personal skills
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Tips for a good map
Medium article https://modus.medium.com/what-makes-a-map-good-4db0de3b2cec Headline of article
Freedom Map (software)
https://profittigersystems.com/wsoplus/freedommap.html Freedom Map software Different approach.
Using Mind Maps in the classroom from Biggerplate
https://www.biggerplate.com/mindmaps/gX7bvAxq/using-mind-maps-in-the-classroom
Site navigation from an old and gone website, April 2007
Platform.For-Pgh.org-wiki Back in 2007, the website, Platform for Pittsburgh, was used to champion ideas in local political races and to document what others were saying about various issues. The domain was...
Treasure chest of examples
Nearly a dozen different styles are presented.
Mapping the travel of food
https://newfoodeconomy.org/map-food-supply-chain-university-of-illinois/ Wonderful that there is also an open-source data set with this release. Let us know if you dive into it and what you discover. Until then, you can...
Play is important in these weird times
Play Concept Map
People Powered, author interview of Jono Bacon on the Mike Dillard podcast
Jono Bacon, author Author's website: https://JonoBacon.com Podcast episode: Mike Dillard, April 2020 Concept map allows for zooms and full screen viewing. Image reference:
Map and graphic from SportScienceed.com
Nice to see concept maps at other sites. https://SportScienceed.com College coach training users-guide-to-human-body
Tour of web offerings from ISCA
Overall understanding of ISCA Web Sites Concept Map of ISCA sites Classroom is gone. Input the LAP and ISCA.blue. Looking at Read.SwimISCA.org Read.SwimISCA.org - What is Read.SwimISCA.org
Tour and Lessons in the Global Library for ISCA Members
Background The Global Library for ISCA Members is a service provided to those who join the International Swim Coaches Association. Join ISCA! The library is a course of more than 400 lessons and topics that members can...
Evaluation slides for a camp from N
Nicole Richards shared on a Slack Channel for camp coordinators / administrators Hi All, I recently ran a debrief with my Board of Directors to try to learn what we could from the past 6 months and carry those lessons...
The planning process is not fair.
date unsure The Process of Planning Is NOT Fair, NOT Democratic and NOT Understood by Most The South Side Forum, a facist organization, fails in the following test of political fairness. This opinion is based upon first...
Most pleasing parts of the Internet Revolution
Online communication encourages organizations to examine systemic issues. Such as: Power, information, effectiveness, strategy. These issues might otherwise continue to keep muddled, if not faced with the cold...
Maps and Dragons
Maps and dragons, oh my. If we had a map of the self, one that described who we are, there would be the known world of the self, and those parts at the edges of the known map that had yet to be explored. Did you know...
What is your favorite type of diagram? Is it the venn?
Image reference: http://map.cloh.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/venn-diagrams.jpg
Annual Report as an Infographic from The Pittsburgh Project
Annual Report as an infographic from The Pittsburgh Project This faith-based, nonprofit organization, The Pittsburgh Project, is near and dear to me as I've been engaged in teaching their summer campers while in the...
Questions coaches can ask athletes
Ask Athletes when Coaching
Focus Muscles
Power Up your Focus Muscles How do you best respond to ideas? Do you like to see the presentation in an outline? Or, do you like to see and absorb the information in a MindMap? The information can be shared in two views...
Putting some focus upon your Insider’s Circle
Infographic on Insider's circle
Setting Life Changing Goals
Setting Life Changing Goals - ISCA cover Setting Life Changing Goals
Power of Affirmations in a PDF Mind Map
Also see: Purchase / shop: The Power of Affirmations ebook at SwimISCA.com Affirmations in a Lesson within the Global Library for ISCA Members (membership required)
Breaking the Rules – a favorable approach to going for it and rules to bend now and then.
Breaking the rules infographic
CPR and AED Matrix
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Swim Strong Foundation infographic
Swim Strong Foundation Infographic
Overcoming Anxiety (mind map)
Overcome anxiety mind map Click to see full sized mind map. Zoom the Mind Map on overcoming anxiety: Tip: Click image. Drag to various positions. Image reference:
Spring Clean Your Life, Infographic
Spring Clean Your Life infographic
Three types of thinking. Do you have a fourth? What type do you do most of the time?
Three types of thinking Humm Questions for you. You can share by typing your comments into the box below. Do you have a different idea as to a fourth type of thinking? What type of thinking do you do most of the time?...
Empowering thoughts
Empowering Thoughts Infographic
Creative Intelligence – mind map in PDF
Creative Intelligence ebook cover. Creative Intelligence ebook cover. Title is available at the shop at SwimISCA.com.
Crocodiles covered in this feature on the Infographic Show channel
They call this Infographics, but more like cartoon animation. Sense of humor too, I guess. A tad depressing and heavy, (trigger warning).
Quiz on countries. Name them.
Put your answers in the comments.A =B =C =D =E =F =G =H = Hint: Get those Game of Thrones names out of your mind. ;) Map of countries Name them.
Hey kids: Get Cardio Smart
Cardio Mind Map Resources available at Read.SwimISCA.org within the Global Library for ISCA Members.
Executive Function skills can be learned
Beyond BookSmart - Executive Function Coaching Executive Function challenges are often interpreted as laziness, but this is almost always a mistake. Most students WANT to succeed, but they just don't know how. Our...
Cool poster to celebrate World Swim Day
Poster from Swim League Philippines about World Swim Day Nice poster with a logo from Swim League Philippines
Ways to build better bonds
Thanksgiving is about building better bonds and playing well with others. We can be thankful for that. It happens often. It needs to be more universal. Coaches know about building community and working well with others....
The simple map of HOW and WHY
Notice, that the author call this little diagram, and the others like it, a “map.” Why a map? Because just like you can’t be in New York and Los Angeles at the same time, you can’t be talking about What and How at the...
Forgiveness for Fresh Starts in a New Year
Forgiveness 20-ways infographic
Stay connected – in remote ways and with ISCA events
20 ways to stay connected + 2 extras from ISCA
Success blockers that you’ll want to overcome
Success Blockers Infographic
Reasons to swim infographic
10 reasons to swim
Megatrends: The future of Australian sport, a PDF / position paper
Shaping the sports sector over coming decades, a PDF / position paper, from Australian Sports Commission. Megatrends graphic
Growing the Swim Coaching Profession – Discussions
Tips: Click image for zoom view. Click expand box on upper right corner for full screen view. Background On Facebook's group, the Swim Coaches Idea Exchange, I made a mention and got some great feedback. Some of that...
Before buying wearables, consider these six points
Image reference: https://cdn.swimisca.org/sites/WP_map.swimisca.org/2022/12/wearable-buyers-min.png
LAP courses and classes
LAP bits
Water is collaborative by nature
Water imperative. Water is everywhere and collaborative by nature. Water imperative. Water is everywhere and collaborative by nature.
Raymond’s Race Pace Poster application
Raymond Keown of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania offered up this gem of a poster / infographic that he had made for his team. The photos appeared on the Facebook group, Swim Coaches Idea Exchange. Poster that merges energy...
Types of leadership, positive and negative.
Leaders who deliver vs those who destroy
Wireflow, a new and simple tool for making maps, especially of websites
Wireflow drawing
Draw diagrams w AI, review on Medium
https://medium.com/@davidroliver/draw-diagrams-for-free-using-ai-yed-live-diagramgpt-draw-io-chatuml-0e0013d8c4d7...
Biggerplate - USA
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Tony Bazan, author, mind-mapping
https://www.tonybuzan.edu.sg/about/mind-maps/
Complicated problems call for concept maps
LAP bits-v5-min LAP bits-v4 - courses-min
Creation of Concept Maps with AI
There are several AI-powered tools, including free ones, that can generate concept maps from text. Here are some of the best options: Image reference:...
Mindmap AI
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Complexity to Clarity, great webinar from Biggerplate about Concept Maps
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Napkin is with an update and it is doing Mind Maps
Promo video, does little, but looks cool. https://youtu.be/zhl7enbyohk?si=Yv0STelt25MhKrSL
Draft and private notes
These are listed as source inventory. They are useful as breadcrumbs, not necessarily public finished articles.
Playlist RFP for the Spout Fund
Need to dive into this later, for background in the books and sites. https://aforathlete.wikia.com/wiki/Sprout_Fund/Playlists_RFP/application
Educational health
https://www.brookings.edu/blog/education-plus-development/2019/08/09/how-do-social-and-emotional-skills-develop-in-youth/
Adam points out WiseMapping.com
Adam hasn’t a podcast, Kitchen Sink WordPress, and mention the tool, WiseMapping.com. https://wisemapping.com
Concept maps can help to overcome this problem
Michael Rectenwald“Social justice holds that membership in a subordinated identity group grants members exclusive access to particular knowledge, their own knowledge. Members of dominant identity groups cannot access or...
Tidbits - RAW
Received wisdom Real business is not a widget. Real business is how you feel. Scale the feeling. How do you want to be treated. Experience. How to treat people Empathy for players and participants. Remember your...
Doing underhanded foul shots in basketball -- free throws -- Rick Berry
Comfortable with self. Works. Successful. Loos strange. All is legal. Keep doing it. Granny shot. Don't worry what others thing. Come to grips with your dreams.
Churchill quotes
“Employ your time in improving yourself by other’s writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for.” More important than ever in these very dynamic times.
Jonty’s thread after 24-hours
Jonty Skinner 23 hrs · Members of Swim Coaches Idea Exchange Group Normally I would post something that I’d thought a lot about, maybe shared those thoughts with a few people and then shared them with the outside world....
Asset mapping, like concept mapping
Asset Mapping and Community Development Planning with GIS Asset Mapping sounds like Concept Mapping. Both are more graphic and both are good for getting a better feel for releationships. Both have strong academic roots...
Wisdom communities
We have to go beyond the "information" or "knowledge" economy. As T.S. Eliot wrote in "The Rock" (far before the "information age") "Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in...
Literacy, Computer Use in Education
Literacy Computer use in education Some teachers let students use calculators to do homework. Ace the homework assignements, but then do poorly on the exams where calculators were not allowed. The students were very...
Digital Divide – the Internet Changes Everything
Breaking Stone Age Perceptions & Creation of New Endeavors People from the high-tech sector have been saying, "The Internet Changes Everything!" But, it seems to me, that our challenge at hand is simply getting to the...
Consensus - raw
Vigdor Schreibman Adversarial Efforts The adversarial process is not a very productive way to promote a consensus, one gets there in a more creative process when everyone starts out with an understanding that its the...
Asset Mapping
Asset Mapping and Community Development Planning with GIS Asset Mapping sounds like Concept Mapping. Both are more graphic and both are good for getting a better feel for releationships. Both have strong academic roots...
Concept Maps: A fine tool for a Multi-Dimensional Generalist.
Roundtable Opening Fellow Toastmasters and Citizens of Pittsburgh, I am Mark Rauterkus I'm in the Race for Mayor, City of Pittsburgh, 2001. I am who I am and I don't know, yet, the answer to a most frequent question...
At the end of WWII, the knowledge gained in science was
Scientists when the fighting has ceased, were asked in 1945 to turn their attention to the massive task of making more accessible our bewildering store of knowledge. Inventions have extended physical powers of generals...
Passion. Feelings matter. RAW
Feelings Matter As humans, we do only three things: think, feel and act. The feeling part is often given little consideration in education. For example: SuperCard as an authoring tool, the Macintosh as a computer, the...
Sports in the world of Coach Mark, with photos
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Got Focus?
Focus ebook Focus (ebook) The book includes a Mindmap. The book is going to be available at the shop at https://SwimISCA.com . Focus Mindmap
Complex idea sharing is way down due to Covid
Caught up with anyone on your company’s sales team in months, you’re not alone. Remote work is causing companies to become islands of business units with few connections between them, according to a new study from...