A Web is a graphic organizer. It's also called branching and it's a way to ramify details from a main idea, subtopics from a topic and different effects from the same cause. This graphic organizers can be a fun way to list all the types of organisms in a species, make a variety of predictions based on phenomena and the elements that are metals.
As professional experience, I derived this "Tactile Web" method which I used to help both a tutor and a student this semester, Spring 2009. The student had a visual impairment and the tutor had a hard time teaching the student how to recall the branches of Philosophy. By writing in the words Philosophy in the heart of the "Web" and each branch on each branch, both the tutor and student had a spatial and tactile organizer to help them. I explained to the tutor that the student can use her fingers on positions to organize thoughts. This is similar to the method used by aviators in war time to identify the position of the enemy during flight. The tutor will rely on what is written down on the parchment making it easy for the student to hear the word as fast as the student touches the area. At first, the tutor moves the student's hand to the spot and calls out the word: first to the center; then, to the branch; then, back to the center. (It's important that the tutor moves in straight lines.) Repeating this several times will eventually yield the student's independence to recall the "x" number of branches, their clock-wise position and the actual names and details in a less cluttered fashion.
This method can be used by anyone.
I think I came up with it years ago in a Geography lesson. I had to memorize the name and location of the states on a map. I remember using mental pictures for each state that surrounded Colorado.
One of the greatest things you can do in life is to teach something truthful and useful to someone.
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