1.  http://www.harker.org/teacherinstitute 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

2. Harker Teacher Institute – 2009

3.  A non-linear way of visually relating ideas  Initial formal documentation - 1972

5.  Dynamic Whiteboard  Organization  Hierarchical & Relation  Back to Bloom - CMapToolsCMapTools

6.  Good commercial product  Lots of pre-made materials  Fairly intuitive to use  Not cheap  Not at home

7.  Free  Legal  Open – Source  Software

8.  What’s out there?  BAISnet list query  Google searching  Wikipedia  Accumulate InformationInformation

9.  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

10.  Screening Process  Criteria with VUE Criteria with VUE

11.  VUE  Tufts University  2.3.1  Appears well supported within its department  Very media friendly  Geared towards presentations

12.  CMAPtools  IHMC – Institute for Human Machine Collaboration  5.0.3  Florida Universities – funding appears sound  Research based & Collaboration Focused

13.  Not finished  Criteria extended in the process  Parking lot & Organize  “Intuitively Obvious”  Presentation component added new evaluation axis  May be a question of style…

14.  Leader needs domain knowledge  Good Focus Question!

15.  Parking Lot and Organize Parking Lot and Organize  PostIt® and Easel Paper  Whiteboarding Whiteboarding  Presentation  I’m not there yet  VUE demo VUE demo

16.  Student assessment  Focus question  Research projects

17.  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

18.  The Theory Underlying Concept Maps and How to Construct and Use Them http://cmap.ihmc.us/Publications/ResearchPa pers/TheoryCmaps/TheoryUnderlyingConceptM aps.htm http://cmap.ihmc.us/Publications/ResearchPa pers/TheoryCmaps/TheoryUnderlyingConceptM aps.htm