education

1. Brainstorming and Concept
Maps
WEEK 5 -6

2. Brainstorming and Concept Mapping
 Brainstorming is a way to approach a topic, and one
increasingly taught in college courses
 It’s basis is an open-ended approach to finding your
way through a topic

3. Brainstorming
 Brainstorming is more informal than a Concept Map
(we see that in a minute) but more ordered than a
group talking:

4. Brainstorming
 Brainstorming works by focusing on a problem, and
then deliberately coming up with as many solutions
as possible and by pushing the ideas as far as
possible.
 A reason it is so effective is that the brainstormers
not only come up with new ideas in a session, but
gain from associations with other people's ideas by
developing and refining them.
 http://www.nwlink.com/~donclark/perform/brainstorm.html

5. Begin with Single Topic

6. Keep Developing Your Map
 Brainstorm ideas or issues or concepts
related to "pet therapy" and add them
to the map:
 Now add another layer of ideas related
to these

7. Keep adding keywords until you have relevant keywords
around each of your subtopics:
**from http://library.humboldt.edu/researchroadmap/topics/topic03a.html

8. Concept Maps
 A concept map presents the relationships among a
set of connected concepts and ideas.
 It is a tangible way to display how your mind sees a
particular topic. By constructing a concept map, you
reflect on what you know and what you don't know.
 http://www.udel.edu/chem/white/teaching/ConceptMap.html

9.  Often by the time you get to the Concept Map, you
have gone through some initial brainstorming, and
your ideas have turned into keywords or subtopics,
and you have a more solid idea of how these relate to
each other:
 http://fromthedeskofalifelonglearner.blogspot.com/

10. Format for Concept Map [Spider]

11. Completed Concept Map (Spider)

12. Concept Map Types
 Spider Map (The"spider"
concept map is organized by
placing the central theme or
unifying factor in the center of the
map. Outwardly radiating sub-themes
surround the center of the
map.
 Hierachical (The hierarchy
concept map presents information
in a descending order of
importance. The most important
information is placed on the top.

13. Websites for Concept Mapping
 Youtube video:
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KhgxuNvbNrA
 Brainstorming:
 http://library.sonoma.edu/howdoi/researchtopic.php#
 (look for the linked sign under 'Brainstorming' nice
overview of brainstorming process)
 Colorful, simple explanation of Concept Maps:
 http://www.myteacherpages.com/webpages/BFarkas/files/mind%2
0map%20basics.2.pdf
 Nice Easy Explanation of Concept Maps:
 http://www.virtualcurriculum.com/N3225/ConceptMap2_nursing.p
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