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Le

A few scribbles on a whiteboard, some heavy editing with Gimp and ... something new is created!


Drifting a bit from traditional mindmapping, a hand drawn map of the french word "le" with examples. The definite article "the" is translated to "le" when preceding masculine nouns. "La" is used for feminine nouns, "les" for plural and " l' " for nouns beginning with vowels.

So "the mountain bike" becomes "le velo" and "the book" is "le livre". There are some other masculine nouns scattered about, for example "ballon" and "soir" which are "ball" and "evening".

The rest of the definite articles - la, les and l', should follow soon once I've made them!

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Ça va?

This one tells you how to say "how are you?" and similar phrases in french. The background is a bit experimental - I had to brighten it quite a bit to keep the contrast. Its based on the french vocabulary phrasebook from wikibooks. Check out the original text as it also has sound files for the phrases - very useful for improving your french accent. Thanks Wikibooks and all contributors!

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Gravitational Fields

Again, the shapes formed by the lines lift this mindmap. Another noticeable feature is the amount of hand written notes (actually done using the mouse due to the software not having enough formatting features). Although my mouse-writing makes it looks a bit messier than previous mindmaps, it does make it more personal and perhaps more memorable.

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Chemistry Mindmap Gallery

A collection of A level chemistry mindmaps

Organic Reactions

Alkanes	Alkenes	Haloalkanes

Halogenoalkanes

Mindmaps are great for showing links and similarities between information which would otherwise have been difficult to pick out when using ordinary notes. On the first 2 branches on the right for instance, it is easy to see that the haloalkanes react to form different products with potassium hydroxide depending on the conditions used. The reactants are heated under reflux in aqueous solution to form alcohols, or in ethanolic solution to produce alkenes.

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Alkenes

Here are the 5 reactions of alkenes. I found the shapes created by the lines helped make the information more memorable. The 1,2-dibromoethane (2^nd branch) was very easy to remember because of the triangle that it formed. Also, several of the branches look like leaves... can you see it?

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