Selecting and

Organizing
Information
 There seem to be no end to the
amount of information and
knowledge you acquire every day
from myriad sources-interesting
articles, posts, courses and other
types of information research you
have done. Your skills in selecting
and organizing information will
prevent extremely valuable
information from being dormant and
not helping you at all.
 Important points must not
be left out when dealing with
any material at hand. As
such, there are techniques in
selecting and organizing
information. These include
using brainstorming list,
graphic organizers and
outlines.
Brainstorming List
 Brainstorming

A powerful group creativity

technique by which efforts are
made to find a conclusion for a
specific problem by gathering a
list of ideas spontaneously
contributed by its members.
 Brainstorming

The term was popularized

by Alex Faickney Osborn
in the 1953 in his book,
Applied Imagination.
 Brainstorming

Informal way of
generating topics to write
about, or points to make
about your topic.
 Brainstorming

The important point about

brainstorming is that there
should be no pressure to be
“brilliant”. In doing this, you
should simply open your mind
to whatever that pops into it.
 Brainstorming

When a word is given,

many ideas will pop in your
mind. Much of it will not be
useful but that’s fine. Part of
brainstorming will involve
selection process.
Listing
- A brainstorming technique.
Listing is a brainstorming
technique many people find
useful. It means doing just
what its name suggest –
listing possible topics and then sub lists of
things you could say about each topic. For
instance, a list could consist of the main
topic of regional languages and then sub
lists would be regional dialects you know
or have experienced.
Models/ Tools
for
Brainstorming
Models/ Tools for Brainstorming

SWOT analysis
For assessing the
strength of a company,
department,
proposition or idea.
 Models/ Tools for Brainstorming

PEST analysis
For measuring the
attractiveness and
potential of a market.
Models/ Tools for Brainstorming

The McKinsey
Seven-S’s

Criteria for a
successful company
 Models/ Tools for Brainstorming

Adizes
corporate life-
cycle model

Phases of company
development
Models/ Tools for Brainstorming

Delegation
model

Successful task
delegation and staff
development through
delegation
 Models/ Tools for Brainstorming

Tuckman’s
Group
Development
Model

Forming, Storming,
Norming,
Performing
 Models/ Tools for Brainstorming

❖Kolb’s Learning Styles – for training the trainers, coaching the

coaches, and management development.
❖Leadership Attributes – for developing leadership among
managers.
❖Negotiation Process – for sales and commercial staff and
optimizing on profitable outcomes and customer relationships.
❖Cherie Carter-Scott’s Rules of life – behaviour and attitude
development and soft skills development.
❖Advanced ‘Kaleidoscope Brainstorming’ Technique
 Graphic
Organizers
 Graphic Organizers

Graphic organizers such as concept

maps and mind maps are important
and effective pedagogical tools for
organizing content and ideas and
facilitating learners’ comprehension of
newly acquired information.
 Graphic Organizers

Gardner’s Theory of Multiple

Intelligences posits that students are
better able to learn and internalize
information when more than one
learning modality is employed in an
instructional strategy.
 Graphic Organizers

It is a visual display that demonstrates

relationships between facts, concepts
or ideas. It guides the learner’s
thinking as they fill in and build upon
a visual map or diagram.
 Graphic Organizers

McKnight (2010) purported that graphic

organizers enable the writer to organize
material logically and to see relationships
between and among ideas. It helps the
writer to present his ideas in an effective
and persuasive manner, resulting in a
focused and coherent text.
 Benefits
of
Graphic
Organizers
 Graphic Organizers

✓Helping students structure

writing project
✓Encouraging students to write
decisions
✓Making it easy for students to
classify ideas and communicate
 Graphic Organizers

✓Allowing students to examine

relationships
✓Guiding students in demonstrating
their thinking process
✓Helping students increase reading
comprehension
 Graphic Organizers

✓Making it easy to brainstorm

✓Encouraging students to organize

essential concepts and ideas
 Basic
Graphic
Organizers
Basic Outline

An outline
presents a picture
of the main ideas
and the subsidiary
ideas of any
subject.
Venn Diagram
It uses overlapping
circles to illustrate the
logical relationships
between two or more sets of
items. Often, they serve to
graphically organize things,
highlighting how the items
are similar and different.
 Hierarchical
Topical Organizer
This graphic organizer is
useful in concept-based
teaching. It allows
students to see the big
picture (concept at the
top) as well as the topics
(underneath) and then
the facts (bottom) at a
glance.
Topical Organizer

Details of the
particular topic
are stated
 Concept Map

One A concept map or

An idea
point conceptual diagram
A fact YOUR
Another is a diagram that
TOPIC
point
depicts suggested
Some Another relationships
details idea between concepts
Outlining
 Outlining

❖ An outline, also called hierarchical

outline, organizes materials hierarchically
and sequentially by classifying the main
topics, subtopics and the supporting
details.
❖ Outlines allow you to group materials by
similar concepts or content and put them
into a logical order.
 Outlining

What is the format of an outline?

An outline of any type follows a special

formatting using the characters in this order:
Roman Numerals, Uppercase Letters,
Arabic Numerals and Lowercase Letters.
 An alphanumeric outline includes prefix at the
beginning of each topic as a reference aid. The prefix
is in the form of ‘Roman Numerals’ for the top level,
‘uppercase letters’ in the alphabet for the next level,
‘Arabic Numerals’ for the next level, and then
‘lowercase letters’ for the next level. For further
levels, the order is started over again. Each numeral
or letter is followed by a period, and each item is
capitalized.
2 Types of
Outlining
 SENTENCE OUTLINE

❖As the name suggest, is a hierarchical outline

composed of sentences. Each includes a
heading or single sentence of a planned
document about the subject of the outline.

❖It is the type of outline typically used to plan

the composition of books, stories, and essays.
 TOPIC OUTLINE
❖is a hierarchical outline composed of topics.
Each entry is a subtopic of the subject of the
outline.

❖One application of topic outlines is the college

course overview/outline, provided by
professors to their students, to describe the
scope of the course.
Small Group Activity: Identifying solutions to the
school’s most pressing problem.
In each group:
1. Define the problem clearly. The clearer the
problem, the easier it is to brainstorm for solutions. Be
creative!
2. Each person will give possible solution to the
problem.
3. Use a graphic organizer to present the possible
solutions to the problem.
4. Present the results of your group activity to the
class.