“A concept map is a diagram showing the relationship among concepts. It is a graphical tool for organising and representing knowledge” (Wikipedia, 2011). Online concept mapping can have many uses in a classroom. Such uses are:
- Note taking and summarizing key concepts
- Collaborative knowledge modeling
- Communicating complex ideas and arguments
- Detailing an entire structure of an idea
- Assessment of a learners understanding of learning objectives, concepts and relationship amongst the concepts
- Brainstorming, generating ideas
- Problem solving by generating alternative solutions
- Exploring new information and relationships
- Accessing prior knowledge
- Designing structures/processes e.g. Students organising how they are going to layout their report.
- Persuasive argumen
I personally have explored Bubbl and Text2Mindmap online concept mapping programs and find them to much better than spending hours in Microsoft Word creating bubbles and squares and linking them to one and another. I have therefore performed my SWOT analysis of online concept mapping through Text2Mindmap with the end result provided below:
References
Wikipedia. (2011). Videos. Retrieved 11 April 2011 from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concept_map.
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