Freeplane/C2/Concept-Maps-in-Teaching-and-Learning/English

Visual Cue	Narration
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
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Slide Number 11 Acknowledgement	Spoken Tutorial Project is funded by MHRD, Government of India.
	This is Rani from IIT Bombay. Thank you for joining.

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