[Year 12 IPM] ITA U4O1 visualising thinking

Mon Dec 4 18:45:35 EST 2006

Keith,
I have only assisted teachers in their classrooms to use it in it's most
basic form but the ability to use it in a collaborative way using
'knowledge soup' is fascinating and hopefully I will get around to
investigating it more extensively soon.

Trudy Brentnall
Teacher eLearning Coach 
Mooroolbark College
Yarra Valley eLearning Community
Ph 9727 8100
Skype: yvelc_trudy
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Subject: RE: [Year 12 IPM] ITA U4O1 visualising thinking

Are you using this at the moment Trudy?
Keith

On Mon, 4 Dec 2006 11:53:02 +1100, "Brentnall, Trudy J"
<Brentnall.Trudy.J at edumail.vic.gov.au> said:
> Cmap Tools allows you to construct and share knowledge models using
> concept maps. It allows users to, among many other features, construct
> their Cmaps on their personal computer, share them on servers
> (CmapServers) anywhere on the Internet, link their Cmaps to other
Cmaps
> on servers, automatically create web pages of their concept maps on
> servers, edit their maps synchronously (at the same time) with other
> users on the Internet, and search the web for information relevant to
a
> concept map. And it's free!!
> 
> 
> 
> http://cmap.ihmc.us/
> 
> 
> 
> Trudy Brentnall
> 
> Teacher eLearning Coach
> 
> Mooroolbark College
> 
> Yarra Valley eLearning Community
> 
> Ph 9727 8100
> 
> Skype: yvelc_trudy
> 
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> From: ipm-bounces at edulists.com.au [mailto:ipm-bounces at edulists.com.au]
> On Behalf Of Meadows, Roslyn M
> Sent: Monday, 4 December 2006 11:18 AM
> To: Year 12 Information Technology Processing and Management
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> Subject: RE: [Year 12 IPM] ITA U4O1 visualising thinking
> 
> 
> 
> Free Mind is an open source mind mapping and visualising software - it
> is available on the following link
> 
> 
> 
> http://freemind.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Main_Page
> 
> 
> 
> Ros Meadows
> 
> Lauriston Girls School
> 
> meadowsro at lauriston.vic.edu.au <mailto:meadowsro at lauriston.vic.edu.au>
> 
> meadows.roslyn.m at edumail.vic.gov.au
> 
> 
> 
> Home computers are being called upon to perform many new functions,
> including the consumption of homework formerly eaten by the dog.
> Doug Larson
> 
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> From: ipm-bounces at edulists.com.au on behalf of Maree Duivenvoorden
> Sent: Fri 12/1/2006 2:10 PM
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> Subject: RE: [Year 12 IPM] ITA U4O1 visualising thinking
> 
> Inspiration 8 is now available as a free for 3 days download.  One
major
> difference is that Inspiration files in version 8 can be exported to
> Word for further editing...
> 
> Maree Duivenvoorden
> Toorak College
> Mount Eliza
> 
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> On Behalf Of Mark Kelly
> Sent: Friday, 1 December 2006 1:14 PM
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> Subject: [Year 12 IPM] ITA U4O1 visualising thinking
> 
> G'day
> 
> I've been putting this off for a LONG time but I finally had to face
the
> 
> perplexing task 3 of ITA U4O1. Now that I know it has to be done with
> software (thanks for the clarification, Paula!), I started with Word's
> drawing tools and rapidly gave it up as a joke.
> 
> Then, Inspiration struck me literally. I've never used it beyond a 4
> minute fiddle and a yawn, but I had a play today and it's quite nifty
> for U4O1 task 3.
> 
> Attached please find a (rather large - 211K - apologies in advance)
JPG
> with an attempt at what I THINK the study design wants.  Frankly, I'm
> guessing madly about this.
> 
> I've only seen one other example of this sort of visualisation stuff
(in
> 
> the Potts book) and was greatly underwhelmed by it.  It didn't seem to
> be showing anything about thinking or decisions.
> 
> Has anyone else thought about U4O1 Task 3?  Is this how you see task 3
> looking??
> 
> BTW I used Inspiration 6 (published 1999!) but it seems to do quite
> well.  The source file is attached too if you want to fiddle with my
> starting point.  Suggestions are more than welcome.
> 
> Mark K
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