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Online tools to enhance classroom engagement - Wordclouds and Concept mapping
Tech Talk Tuesday - session 3
“The first duty of a lecturer is to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up between the pages of your notebooks and keep on
the mantelpiece forever” - Virginia Woolf
Why must we consider other methods of learning when we can give our learners so many pure
truths?
Brainstorm on the collaborative document.
http://www.wordle.net/NB use Internet Explorer or Mozilla (not Chrome)
Or http://www.tagxedo.com/ Or http://tagcrowd.com/ Or Google App http://wordcloud.booogle.net/
Wordclouds
Is there a word that stands out to differentiate?
Rubric Marking guide
One activity
Students were asked if the wordcloud accurately reflected the critical points in an article -‘I thought you were showing me something that would save me doing as much work, but I soon worked out that you can’t do a good word cloud unless you really understand the stuff first. Now I find I’m really trying to understand what I read. I think you tricked us by giving us a fun thing to do so we’d think accounting was fun.’
How could you use?
Ideas for Wordclouds - slideshareIdeas for Wordclouds - articleJournal of SoTL article - a study with accounting students
Have a go!
Concept Mapping
For understanding and revision
And waking up sleepy learners!
Concept mapping
Inclusive teaching study by Andrea Chester et al
‘ A concept map is a visual representation of relationships between concepts. Concept maps can be used to represent the relationship between elements within a topic, relationships between topics in a course, or even courses in a program’
Why use concept maps?
Student responses
‘I found this experience very enlightening. I already had this software on my laptop from when I was in high school, but had never really seen the benefit of using it. I now see how useful it can be.’
‘key concepts were able to be linked, rather than presented and learned as a list i was able to use one piece of information to prompt other information which i think will be great when under exam conditions, if i remember the basic map, i can use what i do remember to cue more information and fill in the blanks.’
http://mams.rmit.edu.au/mc0b2wexcrylz.pdf
HINT
In lectures stop every 15 minutes and ask groups to create a concept map of the key concepts covered.
Coggle.it
Check this one out
https://coggle.it/diagram/Vun7UCKYkfwaBiyM
Help video
And one made with Screencast-o-matic
Apps for concept mapping
iPad and iPhone APPS e.g. SimpleMind works on both Apple and AndroidApps for AndroidSimplemind with video tutorialOnline - Bubbl.us
Have a go!
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