Great link, Iain, and taking us to the heart of di$ability $upport
i$$ue. 'Mental literacy': ROTF, as they say, LMAO. Personally, I see
Tony not just as the greatest living adviser on literacy but as a guru
taking me to nirvana. After all, why would I want to waste hours of my
life contemplating literature and teasing out subtle meanings when I
could be spud rudding manuals?
Bernard
On Mon, 7 Apr 2003 14:45:56 +0100 Iain Hood <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Mind-mapping might be hyphenated in some grammatically legitimate
> reality, but in the Buzan Centre it is not. Check out:
>
> http://www.buzancentre.com/trd_mrk.html
>
> I am definitely changing to 'thought showers', though, which, using my
> powers of lateral thinking, I will associate with the idea 'golden'.
>
> Cheers
>
> Iain
>
>
> PS: whether these words, though I think it might be 'brainstorming'
> that is actually objected to, are offensive to people who have epilepsy
> is really for people with epilepsy to decide (not as a collective but
> individually), so if someone said to me "Please don't use
> brainstorming, I have epilepsy and it offends me" I would take what
> he or she was telling me on face value without (much) external
> validation. I'm more than willing to admit no one has ever said that,
> but I have heard people object to 'fit' rather than 'seizure'. I also
> have a sneaking suspicion that the original comment may be one of those
> 'manhole cover' or 'mastercopy' urban myths, where the "gordon bennett,
> you'll never guess what they're objecting to now!", "PC-is-rubbish" mob
> suggest something has become verboten when it actually hasn't.
>
> Happy days!
>
> Iain
>
>
> On Mon, 7 Apr 2003 13:23:00 +0100 Bernard Doherty
> <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> > Whether mind-mapping is copyrighted or not, it has a hyphen.
> > Otherwise, every time I said to someone, 'Would you mind mapping
> > previously uncharted territory of naked exploitation of people with
> > learning difficulties?', I would have to pay Tony Buzan a fee. Oh,
> > somehow that doesn't seem as incongruous as I first thought. In the
> > meantime, as usual it is not so much whether people people can lay
> > claim to legal title, more a question of whether they can find a court
> > to support them. In this case, unless someone was specifically
> > referring to a product or a learning programme produced by Buzan, I
> > doubt he'd have any luck. Both parts of the phrase were in common use
> > before the one-man publishing phenomenon bestowed his gifts to the
> > world (i.e., it's not like Kodak or Xerox). Just a view, as usual.
> >
> > Regards, Bernard
> >
> > On Mon, 7 Apr 2003 12:25:14 +0100 Ian Webb <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> >
> > > Some years ago when I was up in Scotland the same was said to me so I did some research. I
> > > could find no-one to sustain this argument. However Mind mapping is a term that is used by
> > > Tony and Barry Buzan and I understand is their copyright.
> > >
> > > Ian
> > >
> > > Ian Webb MNADO
> > > Learning Support Adviser
> > >
> > > >>> [log in to unmask] 04/07/03 10:06am >>>
> > > Hi
> > >
> > > An FE colleague recently revealed that her institution discouraged the
> > > use of the above terms - as they are regarded as non PC, the reason
> > > being that they may gve offence to people with epilepsy.
> > >
> > > Apparently, though, it's okay to use 'spider-diagrams' and 'thought
> > > showers' (gawd!).
> > >
> > > Perhaps I'm being insensitive but I find this level of 'control' quite
> > > irritating and can't quite see how someone with epilepsy could be
> > > disturbed by the terms.
> > >
> > > Any thoughts?
> > >
> > > Peter Hill
> > >
> > > --
> > > 01527 500324
> > > [log in to unmask]
> > > www.study-pro.com
> > >
> > > Dyslexia Consultancy and Resources
> >
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> > Bernard Doherty
> > Student Adviser
> > ACCESS Centre
> > Anglia Polytechnic University
> >
> > Tel: 01223 363271 x2534
> > Fax: 01223 417730
> > Minicom: 01223 576155
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