Cmaps and Cmap Tools

1. Cmaps and Cmap Tools Lawrie Hunter Kochi University of Technology http://www.core.kochi-tech.ac.jp/hunter/ lawrie_hunter@kochi-tech.ac.jp

2. The age of GRAPHIC ORGANIZERS http://www.visual-literacy.org/periodic_table/periodic_table.html

3. Depending on the link type, there are 3 main kinds of maps: • Associational (mind maps) • Directed link (Inspiration maps) • Textured directed link • Text labels on links (Novakian) • Non-verbal links (e.g. ISmaps

4. Joseph Novak: Concept mapping ANIMALS M O R E S P E C I F I C can be INVERTEBRATE VERTEBRATE mostly can be are COLDBLOODED WARMBLOODED ARTHROPODS can be insulated with TERRESTRIAL MARINE FUR FEATHERS e.g. crabs, lobsters e.g. sheep,cats e.g. robins, penguins e.g. beetles,flies This slide courtesy of Ian Kinchin

5. When is a map Novakian? “The basic Novakian concept map... usually starts with a general concept at the top of the map, and then works its way down ... to more specific concepts. Abrams, R. An Overview of Concept Mapping. In Meaningful Learning: A Collaborative Literature Review of Concept Mapping. Retrieved March 18, 2008 at http://www2.ucsc.edu/mlrg/clr-conceptmapping.html

6. When is a map Novakian? “The basic Novakian concept map... usually starts with a general concept at the top of the map, and then works its way down ... to more specific concepts. Concepts are placed in [boxes]... Abrams, R. An Overview of Concept Mapping. In Meaningful Learning: A Collaborative Literature Review of Concept Mapping. Retrieved March 18, 2008 at http://www2.ucsc.edu/mlrg/clr-conceptmapping.html

7. When is a map Novakian? “The basic Novakian concept map... usually starts with a general concept at the top of the map, and then works its way down ... to more specific concepts. Concepts are placed in [boxes]... Lines are drawn from a concept to a linking word to a concept. Abrams, R. An Overview of Concept Mapping. In Meaningful Learning: A Collaborative Literature Review of Concept Mapping. Retrieved March 18, 2008 at http://www2.ucsc.edu/mlrg/clr-conceptmapping.html

8. When is a map Novakian? “The basic Novakian concept map... usually starts with a general concept at the top of the map, and then works its way down ... to more specific concepts. Concepts are placed in [boxes]... Lines are drawn from a concept to a linking word to a concept. Sequences of concepts and linking words do not always form grammatically correct sentences.” Abrams, R. An Overview of Concept Mapping. In Meaningful Learning: A Collaborative Literature Review of Concept Mapping. Retrieved March 18, 2008 at http://www2.ucsc.edu/mlrg/clr-conceptmapping.html

9. Making Novakian maps http://cmap.ihmc.us/

10. September 2008 the 3rd International Conference on Concept Mapping was held in Tallinn and Helsinki <http://cmc.ihmc.us/> September 2010 Chile September 2012 Malta

11. Argument mapping Information structure mapping Syntactic mapping Grammatical mapping (pseudo) Association mapping Novakian maps (Novak & Cañas, 2006) can be used at any level of abstraction.

12. Novakian links: -verbs only (concept maps) -logical connectors only (ISmaps) -communication moves (rhetoric maps) -argument communication moves (argument maps)

13. Novakian links: verbs (nodes are nouns) from FLEXIBLE CONCEPT MAPPING (CMC proceedings 2008) by Alfredo Tifi, ITIS "E. Divini" San Severino Marche (MC, Italy) – WWMAPS Antonietta Lombardi, Direzione Didattica Primo Circolo Novi Ligure (AL, Italy) WWMAPS Jose Domingo Villarroel Villamor, University of the Basque Country, Spain

14. Novakian links: logical connectors (nodes are clauses)