If your friends don't have CMap, they can't work on your concept map. But you can make it available in several forms
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You can produce a picture file from it, so they can
view it in a graphics program or a web browser. Or you can make it into
a web page, and web it on your site. You can convert all your “propositions” as a text file, to provide a summary of the links between concepts ( a proposition is just one concept, a link and the attached concept in your map, eg Smoking causes diseases). Or you could export it as XML, if you wanted to make it available in that form for interoperability purposes. Either way, the File > Export
Cmap As menu gives you several choices. |
Now you can see how to use the Cmap tool, you can apply it to a range of situations. For example:
- Developing an argument or debate (eg whether refugees should be turned away from Australia)
- Logging a discussion (eg the next School Council meeting)
- Describing a process (eg, how Australian parliamentary reps are elected)
- Analysing consequences of actions (eg bullying)
- Planning a sequence of actions (eg changing the oil in a Holden Gemini)
- Looking for structure (eg looking at the common characteristics of children’s fairy stories)
- Using multiple viewpoints (eg portraying the different views of stakeholder groups on logging native forest)
- Plot development (eg developing ideas for a play or TV advertisement)
- Synthesising a new idea (eg using a range of information and ideas to synthesise a viewpoint on the importance of fashion in Australian society)
- Tracing historical ideas (eg mapping the pathway and events leading to Federation or World War 2)
- Generating rules and responsibilities (eg developing a way of representing school principles/rules/reasons/consequences
This page written by Ken Price, President Tasite.
