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Last night’s VizThinkToronto4 - ConceptMapping

Wednesday, July 18th, 2007

Last night was http://barcamp.org/VizThinkToronto4 “Concept Mapping”- presented by David Gelb of York University, Michael Jones from Sheridan College and myself. (Sorry, for all the promotion we did with my pause in blogging I forgot to blog about it).
At the present count there are some 84 pictures of the event on Flickr:

And our slides at SlideShare

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Chapter 1: Language, maps, communication and memory.

Wednesday, February 28th, 2007

Chapter 1: Language, maps, communication and memory.
“The horror of that moment,” the King went on, “I shall never, never forget!” “You will, though,” the Queen said, “if you don’t make a memorandum of it.”
Lewis Carroll ( 1832-98 ) - Through the looking glass (1872)
To exchange thoughts is a fundamental need of every human being. No […]

My MSc Thesis on Concept Mapping

Wednesday, February 28th, 2007

Abstract

When referring to a problem, we often speak of a space in which the problem’s parts exist. This allows us to speak metaphorically and to apply knowledge constructed in a given field to be useful in a less familiar one.
Concepts are universally separate from representation, yet the representation often subtly distorts or obscures the ideas. […]

The About Me Widget

Sunday, October 8th, 2006

I’ve started looking around for sidebar widgets for the site. These can be seen on your Site Admin | Presentation | Sidebar Widgets setting.
The most recent is “About Me” - this gives you the opportunity to upload a photo and say a few words about yourself.
Additionally there is now a sidewide RSS feed - at […]

The more help the better!

Sunday, September 24th, 2006

Hey Stefano,
Thanks for your reply
Time is particularly an issue and I both appreciate and accept your offer to help. You’ll note that when you log in you see an extra menu… Site Admin… along with Alfi you have full rights through the web.
If you want shell access, we can talk about that too. I’ve added […]

Plenty of people blog about concept mapping

Friday, September 22nd, 2006

I’ve not sorted through the 76,300 google hits for “concept mapping” blog yet, but at this number its clear people do blog about conceptmapping.
Yet I am troubled by the slowness of uptake on this site. Why do people not comment on the postings that are here?

Is the problem usability? Like, do people not find the […]

Do you blog elsewhere?

Thursday, September 21st, 2006

Three of the people I spoke with at the CMC commented that they blog elsewhere. Do you?
I am investigating how much effort it would take to aggregate concept mapping related posts on the site. If you know of a related blog that we should aggregate, or you blog elsewhere, please leave me a comment here.
Cheers,
Martin.

Profile photos from the conference

Thursday, September 14th, 2006

Like CMC2004 I willbe posting the profile pictures I took of the attendees.
Once the CMC distributes the attendee list (and I get some time) I will update the wiki with the updated profiles, so you can put names to faces and locations.

If your postings are not showing up…

Thursday, September 14th, 2006

… its likely because you’ve turned off Options > Search Engines in the Site Admin.
You might as well be talking in a room by yourself!

Subscribe to comments

Thursday, September 14th, 2006

I plan to install a plugin ’subscribe to comments’ - this will allow you to indicate that you want to be notified by email when someone follows up to a thread in the comments.