Background
As our assignment this week for our course #augment1, I set out to experiment with some Concept Mapping tools. I am a co-learner with Howard Rheingold and about 20+ brave souls in the online class which lasts five weeks (wrapping up this next week) titled “Augmented Collective Intelligence: Theory and Practice“.
Since my submissions for OpenEd19 in Phoenix, AZ were both accepted recently and one of them is RoundTable on #Ungrading, I decided that a concept map on Ungrading would be relevant. For those interested, the other accepted submission is a lightning talk on setting up a FeedWordPress instance for a connected course.
To be honest, this was the first time that I had produced/attempted this in a “real context” that wasn’t simply a throw-away assignment for a professional development session. I am not really clear what or if there is a distinction between concept map, mind map and other maps that I will admit to being naive on. Commenters can clue me in.
Reaching out on Twitter
To give a place to leave my first version of the concept map as well as to possibly crowd source some help, I sent out an initial tweet which I linked to in our #augment1 course discussion (private location link, useful for co-learners in the course) on Discourse:
Starting a #ConceptMap on #Ungrading as part of my work for #augment1.
I welcome key words, people, links, ideas from colleagues. I am looking to my key/second influencer on this topic @OnlineCrsLady but many of those I follow have more experience here than I. pic.twitter.com/SdrSxtrbkW— Ken Bauer Favel (@ken_bauer) May 30, 2019
Here is the image itself:
That generated some excellent partition the next morning from Jim Luke, Laura Gibbs and Dave Cormier. Follow the twitter thread for more on that.
and later yesterday afternoon I posted a next version:
next version of my #ConceptMap on #Ungrading for #augment1 (work forever in progress). Note that my #OpenEd19 roundtable on the topic has been accepted. Info at https://t.co/l4bxt6gqDX pic.twitter.com/sG88FDMXvS
— Ken Bauer Favel (@ken_bauer) May 30, 2019
Here is that image:
That generated some feedback from Bonni Stachowiak, Howard Rheingold and Jim again.
Current Version
Here is an image of the current version as it sits today about noon from my desk. For my own notes and those of co-learners in our #augment1 course, I uploaded a version for my assignment (again, requires permission to enter that site).
I just tweeted that image and a link to this post now (returned here to add the link to the tweet):
Okay, current (3rd) version of my concept map on #ungrading for my #augment1 assignment this week. This still needs work and collaboration. I posted about this on my blog, so feel free to go there for more context.https://t.co/tpQYp6f86p pic.twitter.com/B5J56ixtUk
— Ken Bauer Favel (@ken_bauer) May 31, 2019
What is Next?
This is being created using Cmap from IHMC, the tools is free to use and runs via Java on Linux. Windows, Mac or pretty much any platform that you can throw at it. This was one of the tools suggested for the course.
I would like to look at either setting up a server for Cmap or sharing my concept map to a public cloud available through IHMC or other servers publicly available.
