Thinking Trees

[acheron]

As a technologist working in a university environment, I find myself trying to teach people to think in a problem-solving manner (mostly junior techs who should be able to find the root cause of a technology problem, even if they can't always resolve it), and also interacting with faculty who believe that teaching a variety of flexible ways to think about problems is the most important part of what they deliver in their classroom.

One of those faculty members pointed me at a very spiffy online tool for this purpose today:

http://www.exploratree.org.uk/

Basically, the site has a whole bunch of templates designed to be edited and used in the process of teaching thinking, problem solving, and analysis methods visually; I think it's brilliant, and definitely will keep it handy for times when I'm discussing something and feel like the conversation needs a bit of structure.

Hopefully this is the proper part of the forum to post this sort of thing, I wasn't sure exactly where to categorize it. :ugeek:

~acheron

 

[scalyblue]

http://projects.gnome.org/dia/

 

[MRaverz]

I'm liking these, but I don't know if we have an appropriate section for them. D;

We need a 'useful tools' section to put stuff like this and Celestia etc.

 

[Prolescum]

Definitely, there's also a realtime night sky program called Stellarium @ http://www.stellarium.org/ available for linux/mac/winlols - it's also in the debian/ubuntu and derivative repositories.

 

[scalyblue]

Definitely, there's also a realtime night sky program called Stellarium @ http://www.stellarium.org/ available for linux/mac/winlols - it's also in the debian/ubuntu and derivative repositories.

repositories are for noobs ^.x MAKE ftw

 

[Prolescum]

Definitely, there's also a realtime night sky program called Stellarium @ http://www.stellarium.org/ available for linux/mac/winlols - it's also in the debian/ubuntu and derivative repositories.

repositories are for noobs ^.x MAKE ftw

Trying to be helpful, mate. I point it out because only the source is available at the site and some may not know what to do with it. I know a few, anyway.

 

[scalyblue]

Trying to be helpful, mate. I point it out because only the source is available at the site and some may not know what to do with it. I know a few, anyway.

I was being playful, sorry if it didn't translate into text ^.x

 

[sgrunterundt]

Nice java applets for demonstration of all kinds of physics

 

[Prolescum]

Trying to be helpful, mate. I point it out because only the source is available at the site and some may not know what to do with it. I know a few, anyway.

I was being playful, sorry if it didn't translate into text ^.x

No worries, chum.

 

[gounshen]

hello.........
i am new.
Trying to be helpful, mate. I point it out because only the source is available at the site and some may not know what to do with it.