Online tools to enhance classroom engagement -
Wordclouds and Concept mapping
Tech Talk Tuesday -
session 3
This document discusses using online tools like word clouds and concept mapping to enhance classroom engagement. It provides examples of word cloud tools like Wordle and Tagxedo that allow students to create word clouds from texts to understand key concepts. Studies found that word clouds can trick students into thinking a topic is fun so they engage more. Concept mapping tools like Coggle and Simplemind allow creating visual maps of relationships between concepts, which students found helpful for linking, remembering, and filling in information for exams. The document encourages trying these tools and feedback.
Presented at VermontFest November 2008, this presentation describes a 5-day web 2.0 summer institute for teachers at Spaulding High School in Barre, VT.
Presented at VermontFest November 2008, this presentation describes a 5-day web 2.0 summer institute for teachers at Spaulding High School in Barre, VT.
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1. Online tools to enhance classroom engagement -
Wordclouds and Concept mapping
Tech Talk Tuesday -
session 3
2. “The first duty of a lecturer is to hand you after an
hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up
between the pages of your notebooks and keep on the
mantelpiece forever” - Virginia Woolf
Why must we consider other methods of learning when
we can give our learners so many pure truths?
Brainstorm on the collaborative document.
3. http://www.wordle.net/
NB use Internet Explorer or Mozilla (not Chrome)
Or http://www.tagxedo.com/
Or http://tagcrowd.com/
Or Google App
http://wordcloud.booogle.net/
Wordclouds
4. Is there a word that stands out to
differentiate?
Rubric Marking guide
5. One activity
Students were asked if the wordcloud accurately reflected
the critical points in an article -
‘I thought you were showing me something that would save me doing as much
work, but I soon worked out that you can’t do a good word cloud unless you
really understand the stuff first. Now I find I’m really trying to understand what I
read. I think you tricked us by giving us a fun thing to do so we’d think
accounting was fun.’
6. How could you use?
Ideas for Wordclouds - slideshare
Ideas for Wordclouds - article
Journal of SoTL article - a study with accounting students
9. Concept mapping
Inclusive teaching study by Andrea Chester et al
‘ A concept map is a visual representation of relationships between concepts.
Concept maps can be used to represent the relationship between elements
within a topic, relationships between topics in a course, or even courses in a
program’
11. Student responses
‘I found this experience very enlightening. I already had this software on my
laptop from when I was in high school, but had never really seen the benefit of
using it. I now see how useful it can be.’
‘key concepts were able to be linked, rather than presented and learned as a list i
was able to use one piece of information to prompt other information which i
think will be great when under exam conditions, if i remember the basic map, i
can use what i do remember to cue more information and fill in the blanks.’
http://mams.rmit.edu.au/mc0b2wexcrylz.pdf
12. HINT
In lectures stop every
15 minutes and ask
groups to create a
concept map of the
key concepts
covered.
13. Coggle.it
Check this one out
https://coggle.it/diagram/Vun7UCKYkfwaBiyM
Help video
And one made with Screencast-o-matic
14. Apps for concept mapping
iPad and iPhone APPS e.g. SimpleMind works on both Apple
and Android
Apps for Android
Simplemind with video tutorial
Online - Bubbl.us