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|- || Slide Number 1 Title Slide || Welcome to the tutorial on Concept maps in Teaching and Learning
|- || Slide Number 2 Learning Objectives || In this tutorial, we will learn to,
- Add a note to a node
- Copy text from another program
- Add icon to a node
- Join nodes
- Import a directory structures and
- Import another concept map
|- || Slide Number 3
System and Software Requirement || To record this tutorial, I am using
- Ubuntu Linux v16.04 OS
- Freeplane v1.7.10 and
- Gedit v3.18
|- || Slide Number 4 Pre-requisites https://www.spoken-tutorial.org || To follow this tutorial,
- Learner must be familiar with the Freeplane interface.
- For pre-requisite tutorials, please visit this site.
|- || Slide Number 5
Code Files || * Files used in this tutorial are provided in the Code files link.
- Please download and extract the files.
- Make a copy and then use them while practising.
|- || Go to Desktop folder || Go to Desktop. I have saved the input files on Desktop.
|- || Select teaching.mm, double click to open map. || Select the file icon teaching.mm Double click and open the map in Freeplane.
|- || Cursor on the map. || This is a map on Solar system.
Let’s add, descriptive details to nodes using the Note feature.
|- || Select Moon node.
Right click to the context menu. || Let's add a note to the Moon node. For this, select the node and right click to open the context menu.
|- || Choose Edit note in dialog. || From the menu, click on the Edit note in dialog.
|- || Cursor on the Edit note in dialog. || This opens an Edit note dialog box.
|- || Hover mouse over formatting options and Table pulldown. || Formatted texts, and tables can be added to nodes from here.
|- || Cursor on Moon node. || I will add description about Moon here.
|- || Cursor on the dialogue box. Type Details on Moon and press Enter in the form. || We may type the desired text in the form. I will type, Details on Moon for title and press Enter.
|- || Cursor on the map. || If the text is already present in the computer, it can also be copied here.
|- || Go to Desktop. Hover mouse next to Moon.txt icon in Desktop directory. || Go to Desktop. I have the details in a file named Moon dot txt, in the Desktop directory.
|- || Open file in gedit. || Double click on the file icon and open Moon.txt in a text editor.
You may use any text editor of your choice.
|- || Press Ctrl+A, then press Ctrl-C.
Close Gedit. || Let's highlight all the text in the file and copy it.
Let’s close the text editor.
|- || Press Ctrl+V. || Go back to Freeplane and paste the text in the notes box.
You may format the text, font and alignment if desired.
|- || Click on Ok. || I will leave it as is and click on the OK button.
|- || Hover mouse next to notes icon on Moon node. || Notice an icon of paper and pencil appears next to the Moon node.
|- || Cursor next to Sun node. || Next, add icons to the Sun node.
|- || Cursor on icon panel. Click to show View, Controls, Icons toolbar. || Click on the arrow on left middle side, to open the icons toolbar. You may also click on view, controls and check the box of Icons toolbar.
|- || Cursor on Sun node. || I had hyperlinked an mp3 audio file to the node.
Learner may pause the video, and click on the node to play it.
|- || Cursor on the node. || So, I want to add a sound speaker icon to it from the icons list in Freeplane.
|- || Click on the left side arrow to open the icons menu. || Click on the arrow on the left side of the screen to open the icons menu.
|- || Select the Sun node. || Select the Sun node.
|- || Scroll down the icons menu. || Scroll down the icons menu.
The icon will help to identify the link as an audio file, without clicking on it.
|- || Show speaker icon and click on it. || Locate the speaker icon and click on it to insert it on the selected node.
|- || Cursor next to speaker icon on Sun node. || The icon appears on the Sun node, indicating the presence of an audio resource.
|- || || Next, let's explore the join or merge node option.
|- || Select Teaching aids node. || Select the teaching aids node and notice the three child nodes on it.
They are force, velocity and acceleration.
|- || || The teacher wants the three concepts together on one node.
|- || Select the three child nodes, force, velocity and acceleration. || To merge the three nodes, first select all the three child nodes.
|- || Press Ctrl-J. Show the merged nodes. || Then press Ctrl-J to join the nodes.
Notice the three child nodes are merged or joined as one child node.
|- || Click on Edit, Node core, Join nodes with “\n” . || The menu alternate is found under Edit, Node core. There are many options here.
|- || Click on Edit, Node core, Join nodes with “\n” . || Control J merges the node contents with a newline between each of them.
|- || Show options in Edit, Node core options. || The nodes can also be merged with a space or comma, separation.
|- || Show options in Edit, Node core, split options || Notice that, we can also a long node name, into different nodes.
They can be split by counting the number of words.
|- || || Learner may pause the video and practice the join and split options.
|- || Cursor next to January node. || Next, let's import a directory structure to the January node.
|- || Show screenshot of class-files directory on Desktop. || I want to import the class-files directory from Desktop.
A directory can have many types of files.
|- || Select January node. || First, select the January node.
|- || Click on File, Import, Folder structure. || Click on File, Import and Folder structure.
Select the folder to import dialog box opens prompting the user to choose the folder.
|- || Choose the class-files folder and click on open. || Choose the class-files folder in the Desktop directory and click on open.
|- || Unfold class node. || A new class-files node is created.
Let's unfold the class-files node.
|- || Hover mouse over added child node. || Notice, the files in the directory are hyperlinked to the node.
|- || || We can also add another concept map to our existing map.
|- || Show the import-map.mm file icon. || I will demonstrate it.
I have a map named import-map dot mm, located in the Desktop.
|- || Cursor on the map. || This map can be incorporated in different ways.
|- || Cursor on the map. || Each method gives a slightly different look from the other.
|- || Cursor on February node. || I want to attach it to the February node.
|- || || We can import the map using the linked file option.
|- || Select February node.
Click on Edit, Link, Add hyperlink (choose) . || Select February node.
Click on Edit, Link, Add hyperlink (choose).
|- || Choose import-map.mm from Desktop folder. click ok. || A dialogue box opens.
Choose import-map dot mm and click on Open.
|- || Cursor next to February node to show the arrow. || A red arrow appears next to February, indicating a linked file.
|- || Press Ctrl+S . || I will save the map by pressing Ctrl+S.
|- || Click on File, Import, Linked branch. || Now, click on File, Import, Linked branch.
|- || Choose import-map.mm, from the Desktop folder. Click on Ok. || Choose import-map.mm, from the Desktop folder. Click on the OK button as seen here.
|- || Cursor next to February node. || The map is attached to the February node through it's root node. We can use the import function to add another concept map.
|- || Create a sibling node to February, name it import. || Create a sibling node to February, name it import and select it.
|- || Select the import node. Press Ctrl+S. || Do not forget to save the map before importing another map.
|- || Click on File, Import, Branch. || Click on File, Import, Branch.
|- || Cursor on the dialogue box. || A dialogue box appears prompting for the file name.
|- || Choose import-map.mm from Desktop folder and click on Ok. || Choose import-map.mm from the Desktop folder and click on Ok .
|- || Hover mouse on attached map root node. || The map gets attached to the import node.
Notice the different ways, maps or directories can get attached to the map.
|- || Click and hover mouse on File, Import, Linked branch without root. || The File, Import, Linked branch without root is slightly different from above.
|- || || In this option, the map is imported without the root node.
|- || Cursor on the map. || You may pause the video and practice this import option.
|- || Click on File, Save map. || Click on File, Save map to save the map.
|- || Click on File, Quit Freeplane. || Click on File, Quit Freeplane to quit Freeplane.
|- || Slide Number 6 Summary || Now let’s summarize.
We,
- Added a note to a node
- Copied text from another program
- Added an icon to a node
- Joined nodes
- Imported directory structure and
- Imported a concept map
|- || Slide Number 7 Assignment || For assignment activity, please do the following. Using a map of your choice,
- Link a video or hyperlink to a node
- Add a video icon to the node
- Addreframe this line. icons of your choice to the nodes appropriately
- Add definition or description of a node as note to it
|- || Slide Number 8 Spoken Tutorial Project || This video summarises the Spoken Tutorial Project. Please download and watch it.
|- || Slide Number 9 Spoken Tutorial workshops || The spoken tutorial project team,
- conduct workshops and*
- give certificates.
For more details, please write to us.
|- || Slide Number 10 Forum for specific questions || Please post your timed queries in this forum.
|- || Slide Number 11 Acknowledgement || Spoken Tutorial Project is funded by MHRD, Government of India.
|- || || This is Rani from IIT Bombay. Thank you for joining. |- |}