As a future educator I think it’s important to think about what ways we can help our students collaborate. Because our world is so technological, there are so many different cool applications that can be used to help people work together. Because of the pandemic, I think that virtual education tools have become so interesting and I look forward to seeing where all of these new tools and resources will lead us in schools all around the world. When researching collaboration, a program that caught my eye was the program called “Mindmeister”.

This application is used as an online collaborative, knowledge-based mind mapping tool that students can use to understand and make connections between concepts, ideas, and information.

As a student and now working towards my degree, it always was helpful to be able to organize my thoughts in a way that makes sense to me. When I am working to create a project, sometimes thoughts come to me randomly and sporadically. A mind map was always a helpful tool that allowed me to place my thoughts somewhere without having a specific order of them yet. This would be beneficial for early stages of students doing a collaborative project virtually.

Mindmeister allows a central topic to be made and then smaller topics to teardrop down from it.

This application is also very user friendly as it gave a quick and easy to follow tutorial on how to make a mind map.

Thank you guys for reading and learning about how to collaborate virtually!