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The concepts presented in chapter 9 are great ways to make learning easier for students. For example, idea mapping is a great way for students to organize and expand their ideas. It involves breaking down a broad topic into much smaller subtopics and and expanding on each. To represent a topic visually, students might use a tree map or a brace map because these maps graphically demonstrate the hierarchy of categories that they are studying. Idea maps would also be pretty simple to create because you can create templates through hypermedia.

I would strongly encourage my students to create outlines and idea maps because it allows them to get all their ideas on paper. Organization is also another very important reason why outlines are very effective. When creating a project, organization tools are so important because they force students to expand on their ideas and gives them a guide when actually creating their projects.

An important skill that i have learned in the past week is being able to recognize a website that i can trust. I now understand that certain websites may have information that is invalid and recognizing them is a very important tool that I have acquired. For example looking at when something has been posted is a good way to see if the information is valid. Things that have been posted a long time ago would be something you might not want to use as research. Another way to see if a website is trustful is looking at what the websites end in. Usually websites that end in (.gov) are well maintained and contain valid information.