By way of Stephen Downes’ connection (Live Bloggings at DevLearn) to the live bloggings from DevLearn, I linked over to
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Clark Quinn’s Concept Map of a presentation by Tim O’Reilly. Looking at his map, I found myself wondering of someone, watching one of my conference presentations might be able to record their notes via a concept map.
I purposely try to organize my presentations around three (or four if forced to) foundation elements, a structure to hang the concepts and skills from. But delivery is an entirely different thing. Perhaps I might provide, in the online handouts, a link to some concept mapping services, and suggest that audience members use them for their notes.
On a similar note, I tried something the other day during one of my presentations for the 1st Annual Virtual Technology Conference (VTC) held by the Education Service Center 11 in Texas (not sure where that is geographically). I wanted the 60 or so virtual attendees to understand the experience of cooperative information environments.
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We were using Eluminate as the presentation platform, so as I was talking about these information landscapes, I used my mouse to roughly draw two eyes on the whiteboard. Then I turned the whiteboard over to the attendees and said, “Ya’ll finish the drawing.”
There was only a slight hestiation, but with more and more people shoving their mice around, drawing lines and swirls, the image grew. I stopped it after about ten seconds.
The activity exceeded my expectations — and that doesn’t happen everyday.
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Mr. Warlick, I am excited to see that you were using Eluminate as the presentation platform during the 1st Annual Virtual Technology Conference. I will be using Eluminate during an upcoming class at Illinois State University. It is amazing to see what transpired in the 10 seconds that the participants had to finish the drawing on the whiteboard. Wow! It is mindboggling that this was done via computers from all over the country. What a fun activity that really gets the point across. It was a great way for the participants to understand cooperative information environments. I would like to share this blog with my future instructor and suggest that we take part in an activity like this one. There are so many information landscapes to explore.
Vicki Hall
What an entertaining and effective graphic of ‘cooperative information environments.’ It looks like another Web 2.0 application which could energize student learning.
I’d like to share with your readers a great (free) tool I’ve discovered that allows me to collect my ideas and organise my thinking into a concept map. IHMC’s (Institute for Human & Machine Cognition) concept mapping tool Cmap. It’s a really easy tool to learn and use.
http://thinkinghow.com/tools-for-getting-your-ideas-in-order/