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**Visual literacy** **Mind or Concept Map** Creating a mind or concept map with the various tools is not a difficult process but requires some creativity and a clear idea of the message you are trying to convey without clutter and unnecessary information. Identify the relationships and help the learner make the connections with visual images. This lesson is a good opportunity to make sure your message or intent with the mind or concept map is understood though peer feedback. Think about when creating your lesson: · what a mind map does · why it is valuable · how it is created · where can they be used in curriculum · how these tools can support thinking · ideas on how they can be used in a curricular area you involved in **Timeline** Tools that help students conceptualize a sequence of events is beneficial for learning. Timelines organize information in a sequential format to quickly achieve understanding. In this assignment you will have the opportunity to create an historical timeline using an easy to use web application. **Visual representations of thinking: Mind Mapping, Concept mapping, Time-lines** Mind or concept mapping is an important thinking and learning concept. By visualizing words and images on paper or computer screen users can externalize their thoughts which helps make connections between objects, categories, brain storming, identifying relationships, problem solving, and making decisions. Representations often form nodes, branches or trees to show relationships among similar objects or concepts in a spatial format. Various colors, non-linear groupings and location of similar nodes help users to identify objects of analogous trait. Visual thinking can help a learner to "see" connections between aspects of a problem that may evade them when multi-layer ideas are dealt with in their mind. Inspiration concept mapping software has been in existence for several years. Today there are many online webapps that offer similar visual mapping experience free of charge and many offer the possibility of collaborative experience between users, which increases the potential for building comprehension. Other projects that benefit from mind or concept mapping are project management, research, planning for writing, and visual databases. Mind-mapping tools offer sensory and kinesthetic experience for differentiated learners, which benefits knowledge acquisition. Mind mapping and concept mapping can be used interchangeably to denote non-linear representation of connections between concepts or thoughts. Graphic organizers describe a set of visual tools that organize information in ways that make understanding easier for the user. There are several online resources to help create digital graphic organizers. Time-lines are another visual representation of events that help students to gain understanding by conceptualizing the sequence of events. Although history is the first curricular use that comes to mind for time-lines, all activities that require sequencing like math or progression like story planning can benefit from timeline tools. All these tools support thinking since they allow a deeper analysis of topics and help the student to make connections. **Readings and Research:** **Mind Mapping** · Boukobza, P. (n.d.). Mind Mapping and Web 2.0. //Slide Share//. Retrieved February 14, 2010, from [|www.slideshare.net/philippe.boukobza/mind-mapping-and-web-20] //(Check presentation transcript below the slideshare on the page)// · Buzan, T. (2007, January 8). Maximise the Power of Your Brain - Tony Buzan MIND MAPPING. //Youtube.com//. Retrieved February 14, 2010, from Maximise the Power of Your Brain - Tony Buzan MIND MAPPING · [|http://www.mindtools.com/pages/article/newISS_01.htm] · Video by Tony Buzac creator of mind mapping · Frey, C. (n.d.). Business creativity and brainstorming articles. //Innovation, creativity and brainstorming resources from InnovationTools//. Retrieved February 17, 2010, from [] · Novak, J. D. & A. J. Cañas, The Theory Underlying Concept Maps and How to Construct Them, Technical Report IHMC CmapTools 2006-01 Rev 01-2008, Florida Institute for Human and Machine Cognition, 2008 [] **Resources** **Mind mapping tools** [] [|http://bubbl.us] [] [] [] [] [] [] **Concept mapping tools** [|http://www.thebrain.com] [] do a google image search for time-lines, what surprised you, do the same for mind maps [|http://images.google.com] [] paid product found in many schools. Several free options today

**Graphic organizer tools for thinking** [] [] [] [] [] [] [] **timeline creation tools** [|http://www.dipity.com/] look at different options like flip book, list and maps as well as historical timeline [] [] [] Use Google "show options button" choose the "timeline" search representation. Here is an example of Hitler search [] -The same search using wonder wheel search representation: [] **Timeline resources** **to use in the classroom** [|http://www.internet4classrooms.com] [] [] [] []

** Mind Mapping ** || See List Resources Provided weekly || ** Presentation from Week 3/4 ** ** Assignment Due 2/16/11 ** Present a **complete (TPACK)**student lesson using Mind Mapping /Timeline tools, techniques- 12 points Presentation of materials to class(**6 pts**)- done 2/16/11 || Participation 1 or 2 points 15 points ||
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** Open source software 1 ** ** Show clickers ** || See List Resources Provided weekly || ** Due 2/23/11 **** Create ** Discovery show and tell presentation of open source software (5 points) for presentation **2/23** ** Start ** Open source software research project (12 pts) 5 page paper ** Due 3/2/11 ** 1 or 2 points 15 points || Resources Provided weekly || Present /Discovery show and tell presentation of open source software (5 points) ** Due 3/2/11 ** - Open source classroom applications (4 pts) - Open source sales pitch (4 pts) || Participation 1 or 2 points 15 Points || ** Multimedia ** || See List Resources Provided weekly || ** Due 3/2/11 ** Cell phone letter (2 pts) -Handheld curricular integration (2 pts) Multimedia Integration Summary/presentation (10 pts) || Participation 1 or 2 points 15 Points || ** Final Project Preliminary Review- Reminder ** Step 1: Summarize what you have learned in this course. Step 2: Create a Voicethread ( [|http://voicethread.com] ), Prezi, ( [|http://prezi.com] ), Glogster ( [|http://glogster.com] ) or any other creative mixed media presentation format to convey the important concepts you have learned during this course. Step 3: Share your thoughts on why including media is so valuable to teaching and learning. Step 4: Share your project or link with the class. Give your peers feedback on their submissions. **This project will become an artifact for your final portfolio**
 * Pete ** || ** Micro-Blogging **
 * Presentation from Week 5—TPACK student lesson ** || Participation
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 * 3/2/11 ** || ** Mobile Multimedia **