Freeplane/C2/Adding-resources/English
Visual Cue | Narration |
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Title Slide |
Welcome to the tutorial on Adding resources in Freeplane. |
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Learning Objectives |
In this tutorial, we will learn to,
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System and Software Requirement |
To record this tutorial, I am using
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Pre-requisites |
To follow this tutorial, * Learner must be familiar with the Freeplane interface.
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Code files |
Files used in this tutorial are provided in the Code files link.
Please download and extract the files. |
Go to Desktop. | Go to Desktop.
I have downloaded the input files on Desktop directory. |
Double click on the adding-resources.mm file. | Double click on the adding-resources.mm file icon to open the file in Freeplane. |
Click on Navigate, Fold, Unfold all. | Click on Navigate, Fold, Unfold all to unfold and show all nodes. |
Cursor on Sustenance node. | We can add multiple feature attributes to a node in Freeplane. |
Select Sustenance node, click on Edit, Node Properties.
In video add highlight red box around sustenance node. |
Select the Sustenance node. It is a child node of Water.
Click on Edit, Node Propertieson. |
Click on Add Attribute in Dialogue. | From the submenu, choose Add Attribute in dialogue. |
Point to the hyperlink. | I will add the NCERT textbook hyperlink for the chapter link here. |
For Attribute Name, type epathshala.
For attribute value, enter, |
For Attribute Name, I will type epathshala.
For attribute value, I will add the web address for the textbook chapter. |
Click on the OK button. | I had already obtained the address by web search.
Click on the OK button to add an attribute. |
Hover mouse next to the square on the Sustenance node. | Notice a small square next to the Sustenance node. |
Mouse next to the attribute. | This indicates that an attribute is present for the node. |
Cursor on the attribute. | We can add more than one feature or attribute to any node. |
Click on View, Node Attributes. | Select from choices in View, Node Attributes to show or hide attributes. |
Choose show all attributes. | Now, choose to show all attributes. |
First zoom in on Sustenance. | First zoom in on the Sustenance for clear view.
Many nodes can be formatted together to obtain same properties. Select desired nodes with shift key and apply formatting. |
Similar to nodes, attributes can also be edited in-line. | |
Place cursor on Attribute name and right click. | Place the cursor anywhere on the existing attribute and right click. |
Choose New Attribute. | The context menu also can add New Attribute.
This will add a new 2 column attribute below the existing one. |
Hover mouse on the new row. | A new row will appear prompting the user to enter details.
I will leave it as is and not add another attribute now. |
Zoom out to full map. | Let's attach an image, as learning resource to the map, for Water cycle. |
Select Water cycle. | Select the Water cycle node. |
Right click to open context menu, choose Add image option. | Right click to open the context menu and choose the Add image option. |
Mouse on the dialogue box. | A dialogue box opens. |
Navigate to Desktop directory. | Navigate to Desktop directory. |
Show screenshot of Desktop with downloaded image. | I have downloaded a free to share & use image from USGS website for study.
It is saved in my Desktop directory. |
Choose water-cycle.png file.
Click on Open. |
Choose water-cycle.png file and Click on open. |
Hover mouse on the image. | The image is attached below node text. |
Hover mouse on the image. | It is a visual representation of water cycle. |
Hover mouse over image. | To resize the image, hover the mouse over the image. |
Show the cursor sign change. | Cursor changes to a half-square and arrow sign. |
Resize the image. | Left click, hold and drag to resize the image to your preference. |
Mouse next to Carbon cycle node. | Next, I want to attach a hyperlink about Carbon cycle as reading material. |
Cursor on map. | Hyperlinks can link to web pages, e-mail addresses, local files, or other nodes. |
Select carbon cycle, press Ctrl+K.
Type, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_cycle in the dialogue box. |
Select the Carbon cycle node, and press Ctrl+K.
Type the web link in the dialogue box as seen here. |
Click on the OK button. | Click on the OK button. This is an in-line addition of hyperlink. |
Place the cursor next to the arrow on Carbon cycle node. | An arrow appears next to the node indicating, presence of hyperlink. |
Cursor on the map. | Let’s attach a study file to the Water node. |
Select water node. | For this, first choose Water node. |
Right click, open context menu, choose Edit Node core in dialogue. | Right click to open context menu, choose Edit Node core in dialogue. |
Highlight Water text. click on Edit, Add hyperlink (choose) option. | Highlight Water text, and click on Edit, Add hyperlink (choose) option. |
Cursor on the dialogue box. | A dialogue box opens. |
Choose the Xiplan-bharatinirman.pdf file from Desktop directory. | Here I will choose a pdf file of the government Water plan document. |
Hover mouse next to Desktop directory. | It is saved in my Desktop directory.
I had earlier downloaded the document from the internet. |
Click on OK button. | Click on OK button and close the dialogue box. |
Hover mouse next to water node. | The node text turns blue and gets underlined, indicating hyperlink or attachment. |
Click on File, Save map. | Next, save the map, with a different file name.
Click on File, Save map as seen in the menu. |
We require a different form of the map for ease of share and distribution. | |
Click on File, Export map. | For this purpose, Click on File, Export map. |
point to the dialog box. | A dialogue box appears. |
Click on the Filter dropdown. | Click on File of type dropdown. |
Notice the various file options for users to choose from. | |
Scroll mouse down on the pulldown options. | Html, tex, jpeg image, pdf and java applet are few of the popular file formats. |
Hover mouse next to html option. | In the .html format, the map will appear arranged as a listed file. |
Hover mouse next to svg. | There is also an image option, to export an image of the map. |
Cursor on the pulldown. | However, hyperlinks and attachments do not get exported in an image. |
Hover mouse next to pdf. | Pdf is another popular option for export. |
Hover mouse next to xhtml option. | To export the file into xhtml and choose the xhtml option.
It is towards the bottom of the pulldown. |
Cursor on xhtml option. | Xhtml gives a clickable map image of the map. |
Type filename as freeplane-introduction.html in Desktop.
Click on Save. |
Choose xhtml type of file.
Type the file name as adding-resources.html in the Desktop directory. Click on Save. |
Click on 'FIle, Quit Freeplane'. | Let’s quit Freplane.
Click on 'File, Quit Freeplane'. |
Go to Desktop. | Let’s go to Desktop.
Notice the newly created xhtml form of the map. |
Open the file in web browser. | I will open it in a web browser. |
Scroll down the page. | Notice the listed file format. |
Click on the carbon cycle node. | Click on the carbon cycle node. |
Show the Wikipage and scroll down. | The hyperlink opens. |
Click on the back button. | Click on the back button, to go back to the exported
file. |
Close the web browser. | I will close the web browser. |
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Summary |
Now let's summarize. In this tutorial, we,
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Assignment |
For assignment activity, please do the following.
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Spoken Tutorial Project |
This video summarises the Spoken Tutorial Project.
Please download and watch it. |
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Spoken Tutorial workshops |
The Spoken Tutorial Project team:
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Forum for specific questions: |
Please post your timed queries in this forum. |
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Acknowledgement |
Spoken Tutorial Project is funded by MHRD, Government of India.
More information on this mission is available at this link. |
This is Rani from IIT Bombay. Thank you for joining. |