Graphviz+Jessyink as a Latex-Style Potential Alternative to Prezi and Mindmap Presentations (How to Beat MS PowerPoint) - Chao-Kuei's Notes | 資訊.人.權.貴 隨便記 For those of us who prefer spending more time with content than visual effects and prefer fiddling with texts than mouse/button/graphics, graphviz and jessyink could be a latex-style potential alternative to Prezi and Mindmap presentations -- if a few improvements are made. Please click on the picture and then use arrow keys to navigate thru the "slides". Having blogged and given speeches (mostly in Traditional Chinese) a lot about FLOSS, open file formats, any browser campaign, free culture, and government transparency, I come to see a big picture of how the Internet is transforming our society. So I drew this picture: "the Internet Phenomenon Map" and wish to make it into the presentation "slides" for my future talks. So I begin by creating a source file net-pheno-map.dot to be processed by graphviz. perl -pe 's/#[^"]*"/"/g' net-pheno-map.dot | dot -Tsvg > 1.svg perl -pe 's#</g>#</g>\n#' 1.svg | perl ds2tp > net-pheno-map.en.svg I did this on mepis 11 with inkscape 0.48.
Bloom’s Taxonomy: Bloomin’ Peacock Tomorrow I am doing a training on the Treasures Supplement that I created over the summer. Most of the supplemental suggestions fall into the bottom two tiers of Bloom’s Taxonomy (Remember and Understand). I want to show teachers that just because these activities help students practice basic skills and remember and understand, there are SO many more options that will reach the higher levels of Bloom’s Taxonomy! Below are the tools listed in my Bloomin’ Digital Peacock Bloomin' Digital Peacock Remember: BBC Skillwise- Spelling City- Starfall- Discovery Streaming- Lexipedia- YouTube- Gamegoo- PBS Kids- Understand: Into the Book- Skype- Treasures- Book Adventure- Apply:
Up Your Impact JPC’S BLOG Text to mind map There are several programs that allow you to produce a mind map, concept map or network from some structured text. Click on the images to see full-sized versions. Text2mindmap Text2mindmap is probably the best known. Mappio Also the mind maps libary, Mappio has that function. (It's not obvious how to make a map from text with Mappio because the instructions are slightly out of date, saying there is a "Create new MindMap" link in various places, whereas now it's a big orange Upload a MindMap button. Diagrammr Diagrammr can make concept maps or sequence diagrams from text. WebSequenceDiagrams WebSequenceDiagrams makes UML sequence diagrams from text. NodeXL If you have an Excel spreadsheet of data, NodeXL can make a graph from it. Diagramic (seems to be non-functional) Diagramic makes non-hierarchical and colorful bubble charts from text. This has not been working for 3 months.
The Power of Student ePortfolios I really like the idea of having students put together ePortfolios to represent what they have learned. To me, ePortfolios put the "burden of proof" of learning back on the student--but they also reveal the quality of instruction that's been done by the teacher. They are one of the best self-assessment tools around, for both teachers and students, if implemented correctly. I have already opined about how I would do these differently next semester, so I will spare you any more rambling on that topic. What I want to share (with her permission) is one of the best examples that I saw in reviewing all 80+ of these over my Christmas break. You can check out her ePortfolio by clicking here. While it's not perfect, this student's ePortfolio is impressive. She really succeeded in showing me that she knew it, owned it, and could use it. This is what ePortfolios are all about. For more information on ePortfolios, you can check out the links below.
The mind-mapping.org Blog » This blog is about software for visual thinking and organising information. This blog will keep you bang up to date on developments in the world of visual networks and all types of business maps. Mind maps Mindmapinspiration’s Gallery Mindmapinspiration has a Gallery and, as usual with Paul Foreman’s inspiring work, it’s great. A worthy addition to mind-mapping.org’s Mind Map Libraries. Check it out. Vic Gee Google Libraries of Mind Maps (updated) Have you noticed the growth of sites featuring libraries of mind maps on the web? Interesting hand made mind maps My focus at mind-mapping.org is on software-made mind maps – well obviously, I do claim this as “the master list of mind mapping and information management software”, after all. Knowledge management Visual note taking From Japan, but working in English, iroha Note takes a textual approach to visualization – or a visual approach to text notes (take your pick). Its free version feels rather like clustering with Post-it notes, but adds the capability to freely associate notes using visible but subtle linking lines. The paid-for version, iroha Note+, adds the capability to freely associate notes using visible Continue reading…
Free online mind mapping software | MAPMYself (Mapul)