Concept Maps: From Pencil to Virtual World

Concept Maps: From Pencil to Virtual World 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

Roots of Concept Maps

History of Visual Thinking

Porphyry of Tyros

History of Visual Thinking (cont.)

Cross Cultural

Why Use Concept Maps? Why? Discover Capture Previous ? ? Ideas Knowledge

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

Continuums First Second Third Thing

Clustering Clustering Flowcharts Hierarchy Spider Systems Org Chart

Fishbone Maps Result Cause

Cycle Maps Review Read Revise

Venn Diagrams ? list Aquatic Mammals

Shape Charts Multimodal Online Course Student- Interactive Centered

Technology of 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 Web-Based Collaborative http://mindnode.com Simple, free mind-mapping software Gliffy that exports to many file formats. http://www.gliffy.com Used in HIM101 class. Very flexible. Cmap Tools http://cmap.ihmc.us/ Bubbl Emphasizes labeled linking. http://www.bubbl.us/ Personal Brain MindMeister http://www.thebrain.com/ http://www.mindmeister.com This is like an online version of Dynamic 3-d software. $$ MindNode. Inspiration Webspiration http://www.inspiration.com http://www.mywebspiration.com Includes large image database. $ An online version of Inspiration.

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/

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