This is my presentation for the Pacific Northwest Teaching and Learning Conference in Wenatchee, WA, May 8th, 2009.

1. Concept Maps:
From Pencil to Virtual World
By Geoffrey Cain, M.S.
Instructional Designer
Tacoma Community College

2. What are concept maps and
brainstorming?

3. About Brainstorming
Rules
• Set a Time Limit
• Suspend Judgment
• Wild is Good
• Quantity, not Quality
• Everyone Participates
• Invent and Recycle
• Record Everything
• Sort Later

4. Roots of Concept Maps

5. History of Visual Thinking

6. Porphyry of Tyros

7. History of Visual Thinking (cont.)

8. Cross Cultural

9. Why Use Concept Maps?
Why?
Discover
Capture
Previous ? ?
Ideas
Knowledge

10. Different Types of Concept Maps
• Continuums
• Clustering
• Fishbone Maps Communication
• Cycle Maps
• Venn Diagrams
• Shape Charts
Sharing

11. Continuums
First
Second Third
Thing

12. Clustering
Clustering
Flowcharts Hierarchy
Spider Systems Org Chart

13. Fishbone Maps
Result
Cause

14. Cycle Maps
Review Read
Revise

15. Venn Diagrams
?
list
Aquatic
Mammals

16. Shape Charts
Multimodal
Online
Course
Student-
Interactive
Centered

17. Technology of Concept Maps
• Pencil & Paper
▫ Notebooks
▫ Large sheets
• Chalk or Whiteboard
• Overhead Projector
• Software
• Collaborative Software
• 3-d Concept Maps

18. Paper & Pencil

19. Chalk or White Board

20. Overhead Projector

21. Software

22. Software (cont.)

23. Collaborative

24. Three Dimensions

25. Second Life

26. Software
FreeMind
http://freemind.sourceforge.net/
Free java-based software.
MindNode Web-Based Collaborative
http://mindnode.com
Simple, free mind-mapping software Gliffy
that exports to many file formats. http://www.gliffy.com
Used in HIM101 class. Very flexible.
Cmap Tools
http://cmap.ihmc.us/ Bubbl
Emphasizes labeled linking. http://www.bubbl.us/
Personal Brain MindMeister
http://www.thebrain.com/ http://www.mindmeister.com
This is like an online version of
Dynamic 3-d software. $$
MindNode.
Inspiration
Webspiration
http://www.inspiration.com
http://www.mywebspiration.com
Includes large image database. $
An online version of Inspiration.

27. Resources
Concept Maps: An Introduction to Concept Maps (n.d.)
http://classes.aces.uiuc.edu/ACES100/Mind/CMap.html
Frey, Chuck (2008) The Mind Mapping Software Weblog. News, trends and
tips to help you be more productive with visual mapping technology.
http://www-personal.umich.edu/~jmargeru/conceptmap/types.htm
Margum-Leys, Jon (1999) “Types of Maps” Concept Mapping as a Prewriting
Activity: A Presentation for MACUL 99. http://www-
personal.umich.edu/~jmargeru/conceptmap/types.htm
“Memories Are Made of This” (2008) PsyBlog: Understand Your Mind.
http://www.spring.org.uk/2008/10/memories-are-made-of-this.php
Novak, Joseph D. &Canas, Alberto J. The Theory Underlying Concept Maps
and How to Construct Them. (2006). Institute for Human and Machine
Cognition.
http://web.archive.org/web/20060524112734/cmap.ihmc.us/Publications/
ResearchPapers/TheoryCmaps/TheoryUnderlyingConceptMaps.htm
Research Publications (n.d.) Cmap Tools Publications. Selected list and links
to papers. http://cmap.ihmc.us/Publications/