Through this course you will have seen some examples of Mind Maps created using Mind Manager software. We find this tool a first class resource for anything that requires creative thought and managing information - and we will be illustrating how it can be incorporated into your data collection, analysis and writing processes as we progress through the next parts of this course.

While it is possible to make Mind Maps by hand, we strongly recommend that you download and familiarise yourself with Mindjet's Mind Mapping software. You can get a 30-day trial version here: https://www.mindjet.com/

We definitely suggest that you use the trial version of Mind Manager during this course. However, if it is out of your budget for regular use, you can also find many free Mind Mapping apps and programmes after the course is over.

There are TWO extra videos in this lesson as follows (below the discussion of the video):

• "How To Mind Map" where Tony Buzan explains the theory and principles of Mind Mapping
• "Getting Started With Mind Manager" outlines the base functions you can use when using Mindjet's Mind Manager software

Please note that the extra videos are hosted on YouTube and cannot be downloaded directly. Please take a few minutes to explore the functions of Mind manager software before continuing with the course.

We are now going to move on to mind mapping, mapping that information so that we can better take control before we do the third step of synthesizing. So we are still on step two, which is organization and control.

What is mind mapping? Well, for me, it was a game changer completely in the way that I approached taking on complex tasks, analyzing information and so on. I use it for writing reports and proposals, for planning training courses, planning assignments, everything. It is just such a flexible tool and allows you to increase your productivity and the quality of the results more than you can imagine. Many participants have said to me, mind mapping was the best thing that they ever learned and what a huge difference it made to their professional lives.

What is mind mapping? It is a diagram used to represent words and concepts and it is all built around a key central idea. We use these maps to brainstorm our ideas. You can create and generate a lot of ideas and information very, very quickly using mind maps. It helps us to visualize the big picture rather than looking at the individual pieces and getting lost. It helps us to organize and structure our thinking and to classify those ideas better. And later we will see how it helps us to connect everything together and synthesize and interpret our data also.

We are going to walk through this process together. We are going to organize all of our data into a complete map, describe the data and then we do step 3 of data analysis, synthesizing the information. The software that I prefer to use is Mindjet by MindManager. If you cannot purchase a copy, that is fine, there are a lot of free mind mapping softwares and programs out there. It is best just to search, try a few and see which ones work for you. You can download MindManager for 30 days, so if you download that before we move on to this task, that is great.

What I am going to do is walk through the steps and at various points, I will invite you to pause and try for yourself before we resume. The first thing to do is open a new blank map and in the center we are going to put our main topic which is children in Nepal.

We have our four main sections which are general information, information on children's rights, information on children's health and information on children's education. We can click and drag those different sections wherever we want.

In the general section, we have information on population and we have information on basic needs. Notice when we are mind mapping, we do not write full sentences, just keywords and under population we have a total population of 24 million children and of those children are 52%. We also have location and we have in urban areas 7% and in rural areas we have 93%. We also have by sex, we have boys 51% and girls 49% and looking at basic needs, we have safe water 71%, we have malnourishment 56% and we have children in poverty and the data here is 40%. Notice how on the outside of the map we have the data and we are working from general to specific.

Looking at health, we have three main themes. We have mortality, we have causes of mortality and causes of poor health and we have access to health services. If you like, pause for a few moments and work a little bit on the section on health and bring that data in here in the same way that I have done, using keywords only.

At this point you may have something like this. We have the birth rate, we have the death rate, under mortality, under causes, we will have diarrhoea, 45,000, immunization or lack of immunization, it is 80% on maternal mortality, 1,500 per 100,000. You may have decided you want to include immunization as an indicator of health access. That is up to you. And under access, we have the number of hospitals and the number of specialists.

Let us look at the education section, we have information on access, how many schools, we have information on enrollment and completion and we have that broken down into boys and girls. Again, pause if you like and complete this section and having completed that, we have the number of schools, we have the enrollment rate, completion rate, boys versus girls, notice again broken down, one keyword per box, per line.

Looking at rights, we have five rights issues, we have child labor, we have early marriage, we have trafficking, we have children living on the streets and children in prison. Again, please pause, get some practice using your mind mapping software or even if you are doing it on paper, that is okay and complete the information in the rights section.

So here we have the data all mapped out, all in categories, easy to control and that is a good step forward, we have not reached the analysis yet. I would like to show you what we have at this point, however, we are going to use the walkthrough function.

The walk-through function is really great if you have to make a very fast presentation or you want to take somebody through your data. So here we have the four sections and we can see that we have 24 million population, half of them are children, we have 7% in urban areas, 93% in rural areas and the number of boys and girls, we have 51% boys to 49% girls.

Looking at basic needs, we have safe water access is 71%, however, we have malnourishment 56% and poverty at 40%, that is the general information.

Moving on to health, we look at mortality, causes and access, mortality, birth rate 779,000, death rate 78,000, diarrhea 45,000, immunization coverage 80% and maternal mortality 1,500 per 100,000.

Looking at education, we have the number of schools, we have the enrollment rate, we have the completion rate and we have that broken down by boys and girls.

Looking at rights, starting with the biggest, we have child labour, bonded labour and ratio of girls to boys. Notice we are breaking down within that section using the hierarchical decomposition we discussed when we were looking at the inverted pyramid of writing, going from general to specific and the mind map will be a very good guide for us when we come to drafting. Next, we have the early marriage, we have trafficking, street children and children in prison.

Just to look at that data in a more traditional way, we can see that we have that section on demography, section on basic needs within health, we have mortality section here, we have the education and we have the rights.

Things to consider is that as we are mind mapping, what we tend to do is we add key points and they become subheadings. We have broken down that general section into two groups because there is a lot of information there, demographic and basic needs.

In health, we have mortality, causes and access, so there is a priority of the way the information is presented here and the causes of mortality too are going from biggest to smallest.

We also have the education broken down and the rights issues, they are also going from biggest to smallest, child labour being the one that affects the most children, children in prison being the one that affects the fewest.

But this is all still just numbers, the responsibility of the reporter is to set objectives, investigate, collect information, analyze, understand so they can describe and explain.