While preparing for the start of next semester (and at the same time trying to help my daughter learn basic life skills) I keep thinking how useful it would be to be able to visualise our individual learning in a way that:
highlights the relationships between different learning areas in our lives (perhaps using distance as a measure of interconnectedness)- shows the pathways of these different learning areas through time - including where we plan to go with our learning
- superimposes learning threads of our friends or classmates.
- allows me to zoom in and add branches or annotate like an interactive mind-map
Any ideas?
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Have you seen the touch graphs? Here’s mine
Thanks Leigh – I was trying to find it when I did the post, but didn’t have it in my delicious! Added now… ta!
Yes, something that could do all that would be pretty cool. Something that could do even one of those things would be nice.
Alas, I don’t know of any.
I do know one tool that implements part of the “interactive mind map” idea — the “Freemind” does “folding”.
It is one step closer to your vision than a static drawing.
The Freemind “documentation” page lists a bunch of “Alternatives to using FreeMind”.
Do you know anything that even partially implements these other ideas?
p.s.: I get a “Error: please enter a valid email address.”
You might want to look at the “best practices” for email validation
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Programming:JavaScript:Standards_and_Best_Practices
Please don’t make me add you to the
“wall of shame” of sites that reject perfectly valid email addresses.
David, thanks for the tips.
I can think of some social-education tools that do aspects of kind-of learning mapping, although not visually (that I’m aware of). For eg, elgg.net allows people to tag their learning interests – but not in a way that others with similar educational interests, and I you can’t annotate your learning topics with progressive updates.
I was just trying to keep track of all the different things my 3 yr old is learning, and then thought it’d be great to be able to visualise the different aspects and relationships of learning within an adult course that I facilitate etc.
Guessing the email validation didn’t like the ‘ ‘ in your email address – I’ll update it to accept email addresses including ‘ ‘ as soon as I get a chance (and maybe turn it off in the meantime). Cheers
Hi.
It used to be called Touch-graph ….the one that visualised any URL. Shame it’s been dropped off the functioning web 2.0 world.