Thing #14

Flow Charts vs Mind Maps! I chose to focus on Gliffy for my flow chart and Bubbl.us for my mind map. Like it says on the website, Gliffy is an Online Diagram and Flowchart Software. In a flowchart, all of the ideas are smoothly connected from one to the other. There aren't really gaps between the listed information because the information is moving from beginning to end. There is a starting point and a stopping point. However in Bubbl.us, mind mapping is taking place. In mind mapping, you may have one broad topic and other subtopics around it that are related in some way. The information doesn't necessarily have to transition so smoothly. Mind mapping is really just a hodge podge of ideas; It's mass brainstorming. The reason I chose these two particular tools instead of the others was because these seemed to be the two least confusing. It was easy to map out the ideas and that's the whole point. We wouldn't want to make brainstorming to difficult.