As a sister activity to the previous post on the subject of Mind Mapping, this post on Window Paning again creates a visual depiction of what is normally a process with six steps or less.

No text is normally allowed in Window Paning. Instead the steps to a process are converted to pictures* and put in sequential order across the top row from left to right and then across the second row.

If the process has less than six steps, the left over squares are simply X’d out.

Using the same process as used in the Mind Mapping process in the previous post, an art gallery of window panes is the result with a gallery walk by all meeting participants (as used in this meeting) a fitting conclusion for such a section in the meeting.

Then again if everyone builds the same window pane – cutting the squares apart, a game of Beat The Clock could be played with audience members mixing their squares face down and then attempting to recreate the window in ever-increasing faster times – moving the image of the window pane deeper into their long-term memory with each successive round.

*”A picture is worth a thousand words” is how this important learning principle tends to be most commonly expressed. The truth remains that pictures are much easier to remember than text. We think in pictures not text. If I said to you to “Think of a type of tree,” you would most like PICTURE a tree rather than the textual name of a tree. Consequently building in graphics remains the most efficient way to get a concept into our long-term memories.

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