About raptnrent: I got the name from my keys - R Apt and R Ent for the back door to my apartment and the back door to the house. I liked that they were also words: Rapt, meaning enthralled, riveted, captivated, and Rent, meaning torn asunder, violently wrenched. I thought it made for an interesting juxtaposition, open to all kinds of interpretations.
Tag Archives: cmap
Welcome to the machine
This week in The Internet Course, we will be looking at how the internet works. Members of the class have started collecting and connecting readings on the topic, and we’ll be discussing them on Tuesday and Thursday. I’m going to … Continue reading
Some Cmap help
I’m posting some links to earlier posts on Cmaps, just to make them a little easier to find. I also made a menu link on The Internet Course site for posts tagged cmap. Some of the posts aren’t there because … Continue reading
Cmaps as web pages
Here are links for downloading Cmap tools, online documentation, and some short video tutorials: Cmap Tools download page Cmap Tools online help Using Cmap Tools – making maps Using Cmap Tools – adding links earlier post on Cmaps Here is … Continue reading
Cmap Tools
We’re going to work with concept mapping in the first part of the course, and we’re going to use Cmap Tools to do it. It’s a free download developed by the Institute for Human & Machine Cognition, which is part of the … Continue reading
Of summaries and Cmaps
We’re putting a lot of work up front in this class, but it’s distributed to be manageable, and the load will lessen for a few weeks afterwards. This evening the class will brainstorm how we plan on approaching the main … Continue reading
Saving Cmaps online for collaboration
Here’s a little lengthy bit about how to save Cmaps online for group collaboration. So here’s my map. I have it saved on my laptop and now I’m going to save it to an online server. The first thing is … Continue reading
Coherence
I belatedly came across a blog post by George Siemens on The Challenge of Coherence that got me thinking asbout some of the things we’re doing in The Internet Course. He talks about how teachers traditionally make sense out of … Continue reading
Mapping the course
One of the things we’re doing in The Internet Course is mapping out ideas and concepts from the students’ research, visualizing connections between them and how they relate to the major topics of the course. I sort of stole the mapping … Continue reading
Map happy
The class has come up with a lot of great concept maps so far. It is interesting to look at all the different approaches too. There’s no one right way to do it, although some end up being more useful … Continue reading
Putting a Cmap into a blog post
There are a few different ways to put a Cmap into a blog post. If I wanted to be lame, I could make the map into an image either by taking a screen shot or exporting the map as an … Continue reading