Kelly Longrich's List: Concept Mapping

• Inspiration Software Demonstration

• Inspiration Tutorial - Part 2

• How to Use Inspiration in a High School Math Classroom

• This is a video of me describing and showing how to use the mind mapping software Inspiration in a high school calculus classroom. We are doing an end of the year concept map to help students organize what is connect and what is not in Calculus.

   

   

     

   
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• Easy Mindmap Tutorial - VUE for beginners

• Getting started with MindMeister
• New to MindMeister? Want to get up and running in less than a minute? Have a view of this ultra-short tutorial on how to get started now!

• Concept Maps at the Beginning, Middle, and End

• ADVANTAGES OF USING CONCEPT MAPS
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• CONCEPT MAPS, A MUST

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• WHAT IS PEARLTREES
• The way many people currently organize web content is by using bookmarking sites, which are organized in a linear, menu-style format.  Pearltrees works differently because it is a visual mapping of content that can be “dragged and dropped” into different visual trees
• A Pearltree is made up of Pearls. A Pearl is simply a link to web
   content that a user wants to save and organize.  The content can be a
   blog post, article, Tweet, picture, video or any other online media that
   has a permalink/URL.

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• Five Best Mind Mapping Tools
• Mind mapping is a great way to brainstorm, make a plan, or turn ideas into the steps needed to make it real. Thankfully, there are great tools out there to help you build mind maps, organize them, and save them for later.
• Mindjet
• Mindjet is more than just mind mapping software—it's a total suite of applications and tools designed to help you and the people you work with brainstorm, stay on top of projects, collaborate on tasks, and stay organized together. It's more like a complete project management and collaboration suite.
• XMind (Windows/Mac/Linux
• XMind has been around for a good long time, and it even made the roundup the last time we looked at mind mapping apps. It hasn't lost its power though; it's still extremely flexible, works great on any desktop OS, and makes it easy to organize your ideas and thoughts in a variety of different styles, diagrams, and designs.
• Coggle (Webapp)P
• Coggle is a completely free, simple to use mind mapping tool that's easy to get started with. Sign in with a Google account of your choice and you're off and away. Double-click on any item to edit it, and click the plus signs on either side to add branches to your mind map. Click and hold to drag them around the canvas to design your mind map any way you like.

• Freemind (Windows/Mac/Linux)P

   
• Freemind is a free, GNU General Public Licensed mind mapping app built in Java, so it runs on just about anything you throw it at. It was the winner of our last poll, partially because of its flexibility, and because its features and performance are pretty consistent regardless of the operating system you use with it.
• MindNode (Mac/iOS)
• MindNode is an elegant mind mapping and brainstorming app for OS X and iOS. The iOS version is designed to work well on touch devices, specifically the iPad, and makes it easy to drag branches around, add new nodes, connect nodes, share documents with others, and more.
• Honorable mentions this week go out to Scapple and MindMeister, both of which just missed the top five by one or two votes each.

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• Developing Concept Maps
• Making Thinking Visible
• Concept maps are visual representations of linkages/connections between a major concept and other knowledge students have learned. Concept maps are excellent tools to provide instructors with diagnostic pre-assessment prior to beginning a unit and formative assessments during learning activities. Concept maps also provide immediate visual data to geoscience instructors on student misconceptions and their level of understanding. Angelo and Cross (1993) indicate that concept maps develop student abilities in certain critical areas. Among these are:
• • The ability to draw reasonable inferences from observations
   
  • The ability to synthesize and integrate information and ideas
   
  • The ability to learn concepts and theories in the subject area

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• Constructivism in the classroom: mapping your way through.

• The focus of this paper is the use of concept mapping as a tool for achieving constructivist learning methods in the classroom. This is discussed with particular reference to the study of photosynthesis at Key Stage 4.

   

  The literature documenting students' misconceptions and naïve theories in science is briefly reviewed and the use of common trajectories of conceptual development as a basis for the design of curriculum sequences is discussed.

   

  The paper emphasises an individual approach using concept mapping as a classroom tool to improve teaching and learning, and to provide a framework for classroom organisation.

• The form of concept mapping described in this article was developed in the early 1970s by Joseph Novak and his colleagues at Cornell University. During a 12-year study of children's understanding of science concepts (see Novak and Musonda, 1991), the researchers became overwhelmed with the volume of interview transcripts that they had collected. They also found that patterns of responses were difficult to identify. Their search for a more manageable method for recording patterns of students' understanding lead to the development of hierarchical concept mapping. Historical accounts of this are given by Novak (1998a; 1998b).

   
• Concept maps are two-dimensional representations of a set of concepts¹. The concepts are arranged in a hierarchy with a superordinate concept at the top. In a school setting, this would usually be the title of the topic under discussion. The concepts are linked by arrows which are labelled with connecting words or phrases. Each concept can only appear once in any map, but can be linked to any number of other concepts. As one travels down a map, the concepts should become more and more specific and the map is ideally anchored with examples. The understanding of any concept within the map is illustrated by its connections with other concepts. An example of a concept map is given in figure 1 for the concept 'animal'. The construction of a concept map is intended to reveal the thoughts and beliefs of the author rather than a reproduction of memorised facts. The structure of a map is, therefore, unique to the author, reflecting his/her experiences, beliefs and biases as well as understanding.
• The use of concept mappping is often linked to the 'constructivist' view of learning as a concept map makes a good starting point for constructivist teaching.
• The action of mapping is also thought to help the process by revealing to the student connections that had not been recognised previously and by acting as a focus for communication between student and teacher.

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• Get Graphic with Gliffy: Sharing Mind Maps Online
• It's no news to anyone here that visual learning plays a critical role in instruction at all levels. Each of us works hard to ensure that we're reaching each learner and that we're employing various modes of presentation and interaction in order to teach in the most efficient and effective way.
• Those of us who have been in the classroom also know that incorporating visual teaching and learning strategies is a highly effective way to help display mind maps, engage students in effective brainstorming, communicate ideas in a variety of ways, aid students in recognizing patterns and connections between concepts, and so on.
• I'd like to introduce you to a Web site called Gliffy (1). According to its creators, "the word gliffy is an adaptation of the word glyph, a symbol or character that imparts information nonverbally." They go on to say, "Gliffy is an online diagramming service that helps users communicate with a combination of shapes, text, and lines." I describe it as a combination flow-chart and brainstorming tool mixed with a social, collaborative wiki (2).

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• Gliffy Demo Movie