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Title: Concept maps: types, use, software Nadia Spang Bovey, Facult des Lettres RISET


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Concept maps types, use, softwareNadia Spang
Bovey, Faculté des Lettres - RISET
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Menu
  • Introduction information visualization
  • Why represent knowledge?
  • Building the concept map basics (25 min.)
  • Practicalities identifying a suitable software
    (20 min.)

3
1 Information visualization
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Types of visual representations
  • Data
  • Information
  • Concepts, ideas
  • Strategy
  • Metaphor
  • Compound

PROCESS
STRUCTURE
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Types of maps
  • Overview Ref www.visual-literacy.org
  • Project USI/St-Gallen/Geneva/Fachhochschule
    Nordwestschweiz

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Vocabulary
Mindmap
Concept map
Decision tree
Knowledge map
Argument map
System map
Semantic network
Causation map
Domain map
Flow chart
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2 Why represent knowledge?
A highly individual decision
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Use in teaching and research
  • Identifying relationships between concept makes
    learning meaningful
  • Facilitates understanding, retention and recall
  • Knowledge and reasoning are better structured
  • Knowledge is processed and actively revised
  • Provides cognitive amplification by filtering
  • Allows for reflexive thinking, self-dialogue and
    creative associations
  • Stimulates the exploration/resolution of
    cognitive conflicts

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Contexts of use
  • Constructed by student(s)
  • taking notes
  • comparison with peers
  • organisation
  • revising
  • Delivered by teacher
  • presentation
  • summary
  • organisation
  • For ones own work
  • identifying ideas and processes
  • summary of previous knowledge
  • organisation of documentation
  • sharing and collaborating

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Are you regularly drawing concept maps ?
What for ? Will someone give an example ?
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3 - Building the concept map
A highly individual process
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Choice I Segmentation
is called a proposition
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Choice II - Coding
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http//savonlinnakampus.joensuu.fi/ahlberg/index.h
tm
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Choice III Hierarchy
Free form (network, system)
Tree form (central concept, clusters)
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How to make concept mapping a fruitful exercise
  • Students need to produce maps the more they do
    it, the better theyll understand the process.
  • Begin with a simple topic, using a small number
    of concepts.
  • Work through example(s) with the group, modifying
    the map where necessary.
  • Emphasize the importance of thinking about all
    possible links.
  • Emphasize the importance of writing down the
    nature of the links.
  • Emphasize that there is no single correct
    answer often more than one appropriate link.
  • Emphasize the importance of using arrows and
    their direction in describing the proposition.

From http//www.fed.cuhk.edu.hk/johnson/misconcep
tions/ce/learn/concept_map.htm
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4 - Practicalities
Information Design Taxonomy - KARABEG D, GUESCINI
R., Polyscopic Topic Maps-based Flexible and
Exploratory Learning, in IPSI TRANSACTIONS ON
ADVANCED RESEARCH, Vol 1, No 2, FALL 2005 , p 6
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How many of you use
MindManager or FreeMind ?
Inspiration ?
CMapTools ?
PersonalBrain ?
Compendium ?
Other software ?
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Types of software
Diagram and concept maps online tool
Concept map editor
Which one ?
Mindmapping software
Presentation software
Information organizer
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Concept map editors
  • A concept map editor, like
  • Commercial Inspiration (http//www.inspiration.c
    om/ )
  • multiplatform freeware CmapTools (http//cmap.ih
    mc.us/)
  • Compendium (http//www.compendiuminstitute.org/)
  • Vue (http//vue.uit.tufts.edu/)
  • GNU GPL-licenced Conzilla (http//www.conzilla.o
    rg/ ) in Java

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Inspiration 8
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CMapTools
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CMapTools
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Compendium
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Compendium
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VUE
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VUE
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Online tools
  • Online diagram and concept mapping tools, like
  • Gliffy (www.gliffy.com),
  • Mind42 (http//www.mind42.com/)
  • Comapping (http//comapping.com/)
  • Mindomo (http//www.mindomo.com/)
  • ExploraTree (http//www.exploratree.org.uk/)
  • FlowChart (http//www.flowchart.com/)
  • MindMeister (http//www.mindmeister.com/)

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Gliffy online
http//www.gliffy.com/publish/1044845/L
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Mind mapping software
  • Freeware, like
  • FreeMind (http//freemind.sourceforge.net/wiki/in
    dex.php/Main_Page) Thinkgraph (http//www.thinkgr
    aph.com)
    VYM - View Your Mind (http//www.insilmaril
    .de/vym ) or Kdissert (http//freehackers.org/tna
    gy/kdissert/) Linux only
  • Commercial software, like
  • Inspiration (http//www.inspiration.com/)
    MindManager (http//www.mindjet.com/)
  • MindGenius (http//www.mindgenius.com/)
    Visual Mind (http//www.visual-mind.com/)
    MindMapper (http//www.mindmapperusa.com/)

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Inspiration 8
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Information organizers
  • PersonalBrain (http//www.thebrain.com/)
  • InfoRapid KnowledgeMap (http//www.inforapid.de/ht
    ml/knowledgemapeng.htm)
  • 3D TopicScape (http//www.topicscape.com/)

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PersonalBrain
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Inforapid KnowledgeMap
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Inforapid KnowledgeMap
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3D TopicScape
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Presentation software
  • Microsoft PowerPoint 
  • OpenOffice Impress

and others, depending on your objective !
On the next slide, an example that could not
easily be achieved with the software mentioned
today
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R. E. Horn, Stanford Mapping Great Debates
http//www.macrovu.com/CCTGeneralInfo.html
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  • Thank you for your attention !
  • Any question ?
  • Contact nadia.spangbovey_at_unil.ch
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