1. Concept Map – whatwhat, why and how?whyhow

2. What is Concept Mapping ?  Concept mapping is a technique for representing knowledge in graphs. Knowledge graphs are networks of concepts. Networks consist of nodes (points) and links. Nodes represent concepts and links represent the relations between concepts.  Concepts and links... can be simply associative, specified or divided in categories such as causal or temporal relations.

3. Why Concept Map?  to generate ideas (brain storming, etc.);  to design a complex structure (of a long texts or large web sites, etc.);  to organize and compare complex ideas; 適合整合與比較不同文本的概念。  to aid learning by explicitly integrating new and old knowledge;  to assess understanding or diagnose misunderstanding.

4. Why Concept Map in World Literatures in English?  Being in an ‘ ill-structured ’ knowledge domain, the cultural texts and issues we discuss are interrelated in many different ways;  To generate and organize ideas (brain storming, etc.) by yourself and/or with your group helps remember and clarify the ideas you have;  To organize and communicate complex ideas in between these texts/issues helps formulate a map which you can later add to and revise.  To describe and explain to the whole class your CMap will help the whole form and revise our concepts maps.

5. Process of Making a CMap 1. 參考課程資料、筆記，將重點全部列出， 並把所聯想到的其它概念或經驗也一併 寫出。 2. 將所有寫出的概念依重要性順序排列。 3. 選出最重要及概括性的概念置於頂端。 4. 將列表中認為是次重要並與前項概念有關 的列於其下，並畫上連接線。 5. 思考兩者之間的關聯，並在其中填入簡略 詞語表達此關係。

6. Process of Making a CMap (2)  6. 選出另一個重要並有關的概念，考慮其與關 連主觀念和次觀念之間的關連。然後加上垂直 ﹙表達從屬﹚或水平﹙表達對等﹚的線連接，並以簡略 詞語表達。  8. 持續進行前述步驟，直到列表中所有概念均 被填入圖中。  9. 檢視所有圖中概念，是否合理的連接。如有 不清楚或混淆的地方，再思考與其它概念間關係 並重新安排。  10. 根據這份圖，在課堂上口頭或以文章書寫出 想法，以讓建構的圖形架構再一次轉換成文字， 強化對新知識的敘述表達。

7. How in our class  1. Required: (due mid-term week) Connecting to the Big Wide World by connecting one of the texts covered in class and one not covered  2. Optional: used to organize the concepts presented in your group report.

10. Our example—unfinished -- webpage webpage

11. References  http://users.edte.utwente.nl/lanzing /cm_home.htm http://users.edte.utwente.nl/lanzing /cm_home.htm  IHMC Cmap Tools http://cmap.ihmc.us/Index.html http://cmap.ihmc.us/Index.html