Hexun-home. Web3.0. Concept Mapping Homepage. This www page has been consolidated in respect to Jan Lanzing. The page is kept just like Jan left it behind right before he passed away on March 3, 1997. Many links have become obsolete since then. What is Concept Mapping ? Concept mapping is a technique for representing knowledge in graphs. Concepts and sometimes links are labeled. Concept mapping can be done for for several purposes: to generate ideas (brain storming, etc.); to design a complex structure (long texts, hypermedia, large web sites, etc.); to communicate complex ideas; to aid learning by explicitly integrating new and old knowledge; to assess understanding or diagnose misunderstanding. The concept mapping technique was developed by Prof. Mind Mapping® is a popular related technique, invented (and copyrighted) by Tony Buzan in the UK. The difference between concept maps and mind maps is that a mind map has only one main concept, while a concept map may have several.
An example Concept Map Here is an example of a concept map. Everything elearning: Doing: Classification, Ontologies, Taxonom. 50 Awesome Semantic Apps for Educators. The semantic web has been touted as the next great frontier on the Internet. Teaching computers to understand how the human brain categorizes and thinks is at the heart of this concept and promises to open the doors to easier and more efficient access to information on the Internet. For educators, this means that information available to students is of a higher caliber than what is sometimes available with traditional web applications. While this field is just starting to grow, there are several applications available right now of which educators can take advantage. From web browsing to research to blogging to collaboration, these apps will provide a taste of what may be on the horizon with the semantic web in education. Web Browsing Browsing the web can be difficult at times when you get bogged down in junk websites or dead links.
BlueOrganizer. General Web Searching and Research Hakia. Specialized Research Citeline. Blogging Yahoo! Collaborating and Connecting with Others Text2Mindmap. The Theory Underlying Concept Maps and How to Construct Them. Concept maps are graphical tools for organizing and representing knowledge. They include concepts, usually enclosed in circles or boxes of some type, and relationships between concepts indicated by a connecting line linking two concepts.
Words on the line, referred to as linking words or linking phrases, specify the relationship between the two concepts. We define concept as a perceived regularity in events or objects, or records of events or objects, designated by a label. The label for most concepts is a word, although sometimes we use symbols such as + or %, and sometimes more than one word is used. Figure 1. (click on an image for a larger view) Another characteristic of concept maps is that the concepts are represented in a hierarchical fashion with the most inclusive, most general concepts at the top of the map and the more specific, less general concepts arranged hierarchically below. Another important characteristic of concept maps is the inclusion of cross-links. Figure 2.