Let's hear it for concept mapping

[PeterHartley]

My former colleagues at Bradford will be completely unsurprised to see me advocating cmap (http://ftp.ihmc.us ) as a simple device for creating a concept map which can be used as a resource in several ways. For example, you can get students to post their maps on a certain topic (individually or collectively) and then offer your own version for comparison. Concept maps make much more sense to me than mind maps as you have to specify the links.

[ElizabethECharl]

Peter – seems like a useful tool.  Will definitely have a closer look at this. Thanks.

[Stephen Brown]

Hi Peter, I think the disnction you have made between mind maps and concept maps is an important one and I agree the discipline of describing the relationship between entities is important, but I dont think its always necessary so  I like the idea of learning just one tool that can be used for both kinds of diagrams.Ive used Xmind http://www.xmind.net/ a bit and it seems quite easy to use.  Its similar to Cmap but seems to offer a greater variety of diagramming styles and more richly annotated diagrams if you need them, but it can also be used to produce simple mind maps.

Stephen

[James Kerr]

I regularly use The Brain (http://www.thebrain.com/) during the design process, and occasionally as an instructional resource or activity.

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