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