if you brought a laptop…
DESCRIPTION
http://www.harker.org/teacherinstitute Session Resources in the left banner Concept Mapping with Open Source Tools element If you are more interested in concept mapping for presentations – VUE link download and install - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
IF YOU BROUGHT A LAPTOP… http://www.harker.org/teacherinstitute Session Resources in the left banner Concept Mapping with Open Source Tools
element If you are more interested in concept mapping
for presentations – VUE link download and install
If you are more interested in concept mapping for collaboration – CmapTools link download and install
CONCEPT MAPPING WITH FLOSS
Harker Teacher Institute – 2009
CONCEPT MAPPING A non-linear way of visually relating
ideas Initial formal documentation - 1972
WHY IN EDUCATION? Dynamic Whiteboard Organization Hierarchical & Relation Back to Bloom - CMapTools
INSPIRATION® Good commercial product Lots of pre-made materials Fairly intuitive to use Not cheap Not at home
FLOSS Free Legal Open – Source Software
CRITERIA DEVELOPMENT What’s out there? BAISnet list query Google searching Wikipedia Accumulate Information
BACK TO BLOOM Knowledge – What’s out there? Comprehension – What is possible? Application – This presentation… Analysis – Where we are now Evaluation – What you are doing Creation – Where you are going
NARROWING THE FIELD Screening Process Criteria with VUE
DOWN TO TWO VUE
Tufts University 2.3.1 Appears well supported within its
department Very media friendly Geared towards presentations
DOWN TO TWO CMAPtools
IHMC – Institute for Human Machine Collaboration
5.0.3 Florida Universities – funding appears
sound Research based & Collaboration Focused
MY EVALUATION PROCESS Not finished Criteria extended in the process
Parking lot & Organize “Intuitively Obvious” Presentation component added new
evaluation axis May be a question of style…
PRETTY GOOD PRACTICE Leader needs domain knowledge Good Focus Question!
EDUCATIONAL APPLICATIONS Parking Lot and Organize
PostIt® and Easel Paper Whiteboarding Presentation
I’m not there yet VUE demo
OUT OF CLASS Student assessment Focus question Research projects
NOW WHAT? All software is intuitive
You just have to be able to intuit the developer
If your goal is presentation with embedded images – Vue
If your goal is collaboration – CMAPTools If you’re not sure – play with your
friends
CITATION The Theory Underlying Concept Maps
and How to Construct and Use Them http://cmap.ihmc.us/Publications/ResearchPapers/TheoryCmaps/TheoryUnderlyingConceptMaps.htm