MindManager

Sorry for the lack of posts lately. I've been preparing for a mid-term exam in my course in Russian history this week. As I've been creating outlines of my lecture notes, I've been using MindManager to help me display visually some of the more complicated material. I've just put together a really great chart that shows the three main groups of opposition to the autocracy in the late 1900s1800s (the liberals, the marxists, and the populists) and notable members of each group (e.g., the populists included Herzen, Chernyshevsky, Bakunin, and the Land and Freedom party).

I've been enjoying a free trial of MindManager; now I think I'll go ahead and purchase it. I can imagine many uses for it in library workshops and course-related lectures that I teach where I want to use visuals to explain the interrelationships between related things (such as a chart displaying what peer-reviewed journals, magazines, newspapers, and trade journals have in common).

If you take a look at the website for MindManager, you can see examples of the kinds of charts you can create with this software.