The following steps are required to start working with the tool:
- User should sign up for MindMeister by link: https://www.mindmeister.com/mm/signup/basic. After participating he/she has access to the home page and can review all created mind maps.
- To create a new map the user, need to click the “My New Mind Map” button. The mind map editor will be available. In the middle of the page, there will be seen a main topic section, where the topic of the created mind map should be entered.
- Once the user has created the main topic, the possibility to add sub-topics by pressing the tab key is available. After adding all the sub-topics, the mind map creation can be finished by clicking “enter”. Clicking enter one more time allows to create another topic. Added in this way topics are in mind map recognised as related topics.
- With the help of the two keys mentioned above – enter and tab, user can create the main topic and related topics.
- Removing or adding related topics can be done by using “connect” to add a topic and “disconnect” to remove it.
- MindMeister also allows to add labels and change the colours of connections.
- The finished mind map can be shared with students, teachers and other participants involved in learning process, so they can share their ideas and comments. The activities on use of MindMeister should take 15 minutes to complete.
