TIPS Hands-on workshop Using mindmaps (concept maps) in your teaching Saturday March 19, 2005 Dr. Roy Clariana Penn State University RClariana@psu.edu.

TIPS Hands-on workshop

Using mindmaps (concept maps)in your teaching

Saturday March 19, 2005

Dr. Roy ClarianaPenn State UniversityRClariana@psu.edu

goals

Serve as a resource for your questions about other education systems (i.e., USA, UK, Kenya)

Your take aways:• Some experiences with collaborative

mindmapping

• Some understanding of how/why it works

• Some examples that you could implement on Monday morning in your classroom

agenda

Welcome and introductions all around Q&A on any topic … KTK112 – Homogeneous dyads

complete F-2-F mindmap activity KTK138 – Same dyads, use software to

extend the mindmap activity Debrief

Q&A?

Mindmaps vs. concept maps

Bahr (2004) using concept maps to teach English to German students

Mindmap of “group” knowledge (Anni, Anna, Paula, Esa, ja Herkko), source is

the second floor hallway

muistahuumori !

konkretisoi !

opettajanoma tarina

elävöittää

kytkeoppilaanarkeen !

liikuta oppilas ylös penkistä

kikkoja

istumajärjestys !

huiputa !

perustele !

haasta,kysele !

yllätä !

oppettajanvaikutus- mahdollisuudet

pelkkäkalvoshow

samatyötapa

liian pitkään

vältä ! työtavat

vaihto kyllin usein

demot,konkreettisetesimerkit

tekeminen vs. pelkkäkuunteleminen

nopeat

oppilaiden erot

lisätehtäviä

hitaat

tukiopetus. apu

huomaaerot

luokkakohtaiseterot

ikäluokkavaikuttaa

näennäinenkeskittyminen ?

hiljainenluokka

vilkas luokka

erityisenpaljonkikkoja

eipalautettaopettajalle

Using a group drawn mindmap to “capture” a group discussion

Mindmap

teacher

Qs

students

evaluateTalk is critical

Examples?

Using a student mindmap to “capture” a text

Textbook

Text text text text text text text text text text text

text

texttext

Mindmap notes

student

text

memo

Examples?

Using a student mindmap to “capture” research on a topic

textText text

text text tex Text text text text

textttext

texttext

Mindmap notes

student

text

memo

textText text

text text tex Text text text text

textt

www

video

Examples?

video

Using a mindmap to write an essay

essay

Text text text text text text text text text text text

text

texttext

Mindmap notes

student

text

memo

Examples?

tools

Yellow stickies!! Pencil and paper may be best for your classroom

Software – PowerPoint is pretty good Inspiration is good but expensive for your

school CMAP tool is free, but your tech person

will have to agree to support it

How have you used cm or mm?

Activity 1

Find like-minded partners to form a homogenous team (grade, subject, etc.), name your team to reflect the members

Divide text passage into sections, as you read, underline important words and phrases, add to yellow stickies, stick on the big paper

When all are done, working together to reach consensus, sort the stickies into related clusters

Working together to reach consensus, clean up clusters (combine, delete, add terms), name the clusters

Take this mindmap to the lab

Cluster analysis

Brainstorming(corpus list)

Sorting(move like terms closer)

Merging & Pruning(combine like terms,

delete or move unlike terms,synthesize terms)

enter

Naming Clusters(name the categories/themes)

Sorting Clusters(move like clusters closer)

Naming broad themes(name the cluster of clusters)

and if necessary

E-document (to save/print)

Build consensus!

Activity 2 In KTK138, convert from paper to a PowerPoint slide

(save as ‘group’ name) Divide the slide into parts, individually (and pairs) enrich

your part on a new slide. “Enrichment” is open-ended. The bottom line, decide as a group what you want the final product to accomplish for you (you might consider adding your real-life examples that you can use later and hyperlinks to supporting documents, lesson plans, and images,…)

Combine all new slides into one take away file, share with your group

Enriching the mindmap

things toavoid

try theseideas

concretesuggestions

Ideas forworking withdiff. groups

debrief

What happened? What worked? What did not work? What would you do differently next time?

PowerPoint tips

Text and background color size (12pt) etc.

Drag text and hyper links into slide, copy/paste web pics

Hyperlink text, slide-to-slide Auto connectors Move objects one pixel at a time