Concept Maps & Brainstorming By Geoffrey Cain, M.S. Instructional Designer Tacoma Community College

What are concept maps and brainstorming?

About Brainstorming Rules Set a Time Limit Suspend Judgment Wild is Good Quantity, not Quality Everyone Participates Invent and Recycle Record Everything Sort Later

Rules

Set a Time Limit

Suspend Judgment

Wild is Good

Quantity, not Quality

Everyone Participates

Invent and Recycle

Record Everything

Sort Later

Roots of Concept Maps

Why Use Concept Maps?

Different Types of Concept Maps Continuums Clustering Fishbone Maps Cycle Maps Venn Diagrams Shape Charts Communication Sharing

Continuums

Clustering

Fishbone Maps

Cycle Maps

Venn Diagrams

Shape Charts

Continuums

Clustering

Fishbone Maps Detail #1 Detail #3 Detail #5 Detail #2 Detail #4 Detail #6 Result Cause

Cycle Maps

Venn Diagrams ? list

Shape Charts

Technology of Concept Maps Pencil & Paper Notebooks Large sheets Chalk or Whiteboard Overhead Projector Software Collaborative Software 3-d Concept Maps

Pencil & Paper

Notebooks

Large sheets

Chalk or Whiteboard

Overhead Projector

Software

Collaborative Software

3-d Concept Maps

Paper & Pencil

Chalk or White Board

Overhead Projector

Software

Software (cont.)

Collaborative

Three Dimensions

Second Life

Software FreeMind http://freemind.sourceforge.net/ Free java-based software. MindNode http://mindnode.com Simple, free mind-mapping software that exports to many file formats. Cmap Tools http://cmap.ihmc.us/ Emphasizes labeled linking. Personal Brain http://www.thebrain.com/ Dynamic 3-d software. Inspiration http://www.inspiration.com Includes large image database. Web-Based Collaborative Gliffy http://www.gliffy.com Bubbl http://www.bubbl.us/

Resources Concept Maps: An Introduction to Concept Maps (n.d.) http://classes.aces.uiuc.edu/ACES100/Mind/CMap.html Frey, Chuck (2008) The Mind Mapping Software Weblog. News, trends and tips to help you be more productive with visual mapping technology. http://www-personal.umich.edu/~jmargeru/conceptmap/types.htm Margum-Leys, Jon (1999) “Types of Maps” Concept Mapping as a Prewriting Activity: A Presentation for MACUL 99. http://www-personal.umich.edu/~jmargeru/conceptmap/types.htm “ Memories Are Made of This” (2008) PsyBlog: Understand Your Mind. http://www.spring.org.uk/2008/10/memories-are-made-of-this.php Novak, Joseph D. & Canas, Alberto J. The Theory Underlying Concept Maps and How to Construct Them. (2006). Institute for Human and Machine Cognition. http://web.archive.org/web/20060524112734/cmap.ihmc.us/Publications/ResearchPapers/TheoryCmaps/TheoryUnderlyingConceptMaps.htm Research Publications (n.d.) Cmap Tools Publications. Selected list and links to papers. http://cmap.ihmc.us/Publications/

Concept Maps: An Introduction to Concept Maps (n.d.) http://classes.aces.uiuc.edu/ACES100/Mind/CMap.html

Frey, Chuck (2008) The Mind Mapping Software Weblog. News, trends and tips to help you be more productive with visual mapping technology. http://www-personal.umich.edu/~jmargeru/conceptmap/types.htm

Margum-Leys, Jon (1999) “Types of Maps” Concept Mapping as a Prewriting Activity: A Presentation for MACUL 99. http://www-personal.umich.edu/~jmargeru/conceptmap/types.htm

“ Memories Are Made of This” (2008) PsyBlog: Understand Your Mind. http://www.spring.org.uk/2008/10/memories-are-made-of-this.php

Novak, Joseph D. & Canas, Alberto J. The Theory Underlying Concept Maps and How to Construct Them. (2006). Institute for Human and Machine Cognition. http://web.archive.org/web/20060524112734/cmap.ihmc.us/Publications/ResearchPapers/TheoryCmaps/TheoryUnderlyingConceptMaps.htm

Research Publications (n.d.) Cmap Tools Publications. Selected list and links to papers. http://cmap.ihmc.us/Publications/