Digital Graphic Organizers
for learning, for teaching
(a pragmatic, but rigorous, didactic perspective)

Marco Guastavigna

Bari, 5 - 6 - 7 july 2006

in “Learning and teachingh using mind and concept maps”

http://www.universus.it

Slides download - PDF

Tools download – PDF

Integrative informations

Italian resources about search engines

- http://www.osservatoriotecnologico.net/faq/navigazione_accreditata.htm

- http://www.osservatoriotecnologico.it/internet/motori_ricerca_crescono.htm

About concept mapping

- http://www.pavonerisorse.it/cacrt/mappe/

Sofware for mind mapping

- http://www.pavonerisorse.it/cacrt/mappe/mm.htm

Italian sitebibliography

- http://www.pavonerisorse.it/cacrt/mappe/bibliomap.htm

My web papers (generally in italian)

- www.pavonerisorse.it/pstd/

- www.noiosito.it/pubbli.htm

English concept mapping bibliography

- http://users.edte.utwente.nl/lanzing/cm_bibli.htm

Tony Buzan site (mind mapping)

http://www.buzan.com.au/

Freemind (opensource software for mind mapping)

http://freemind.sourceforge.net/

Webbrain (dynamic mapping search engine)

http://www.webbrain.com (only for windows)

Course documentation

http://www.noiosito.eu/bari/

My site

http://www.noiosito.it/

Cmap servers

http://skat.ihmc.us/

http://cursa.ihmc.us/

Faq after the course

- How can I send a local CMap to other user?

A local map is a file in the folder recognizable from Edit (in View window)/Preferences/General/Root folder for my cmaps the extension cmap; you have to attach this file in a mail. Other user will put the file in her root folder for my cmaps before opening the program. If you receive a map from other Cmap user, you have to put the file in your root folder  before opening the program

- How I can import a web page?

1. Select “Add web address” in File Menu of the View window;
2. compile the box
3. Drag and drop the resource on the relative concept

- How can I insert the title - the focus question - of the CMap?

You have to make a "disguised" concept with the Styles palette (Ctrl+T of Format/Styles in the map window), modifying the properties of the Font, Object, Line - p.e. Font: Bold/Red; Object: Color/No Fill; Line: Color/No Fill