Concept Maps

As part of week one we were asked to have a look at some on-line concept mapping sites. The two sites that we were asked to look at in particular were bubbl.us and text2mindmap. Both work around the same structure, having a centre point and moving outwards and both had their advantages and disadvantages. I liked bubbl.us because I was able to change the colour of each balloon if I had wanted to while with the text2mindmap this was not possible.

Text 2mindmap was a great site that had a simple easy to follow layout both when writing out the bubbles and creating the concept map to your liking. One thing that I was not able to do with either site was colour the lines individually or curve the lines (this is probably just my fault for not looking hard enough for how to do it). This would have helped with my concept map as I do not like looking at straight lines and find them hard to follow.

How ever they turned out the idea of concept mapping on the computer is a great idea as they can be saved and re opened later. If someone else does cause you to muck up or you accidentally do something incorrectly you just hit the back button and have another go. This allows for a precise concept map that is free of cross outs or smudges and students can have as many goes as they like to get it correct instead of the old 'your getting one sheet of paper and that's it so don't stuff it up'.