concept mapping for teaching art history

Christine Cavalier, Tufts University

Lineland:“lustrous points”

Flatland:geometric shapes

Spaceland:3-dimensional spheres

Wikipedia: “A mind map is a diagram used to represent words, ideas, tasks, or other items linked to and arranged around a central key word or idea. Mind maps are used to generate, visualize, structure, and classify ideas, and as an aid to studying and organizing information, solving problems, making decisions, and writing.”

Slide Presentations

Comparisons

Books Image collections

Course management tools

Maps Reading assignments, articles (.pdfs) Library and other databases Museum web sites Etc.

oMaking connections within the course content and beyond

oUse for classroom discussion/collaboration

oUse by students in developing for papers or projects

oNote-taking

oDesigning a course syllabus

oEven for developing a presentation for VRA/ARLIS conference!

http://vue.tufts.edu/

Open-source mapping and presentation tool

Visual tools (color, shape, line, text, layers)

Content outside of the map can be linked (urls, documents, pdfs, movie files)

Images can be inserted into nodes

Images and nodes can be made into pathways, which can become instant presentations

The user can search certain resources through VUE.

Resources include: Fedora, Flickr, JStor, Museum of Fine Arts Boston, PubMed (NCBI), Sakai, Summize Twitter Search, Wikipedia (searched by Yahoo), Yahoo

The user can add ontologies from local files or url links