concept mapping for teaching art history
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Christine Cavalier presentation at "The Semantic Web, Libraries, and Visual Resources" session at VRA + ARLIS/NA 2nd Joint Conference in Minneapolis, MN.TRANSCRIPT
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