This seems interesting, although you would presumably upload such an
Inspirations package to a directory folder anyway. Therefore two
questions occur to me.
1) Is there a fundamental difference between an HTML cover page in the
form a mind map and an HTML cover page with an indented structure? It
seems to me that mind map structure will not always be a more suitable
presentational design than a hierarchical type of structure.
2) Are Inspirations packages of a standard like SCORM or IMS? The issue
is not so much whether a format can be uploaded, as most files can, but
whether it can be migrated all right.
Just some thoughts. Thanks for pointing at the Inspirations software.
Alec
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Sent: 23 June 2008 08:40
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Subject: [VLES] Integrating an Inspirations output into a VLE
One of the problems with VLEs is they tend to have a linear structure
(resources are listed linearly) and although we can use folder
structures to
give some structure, with most VLEs as you navigate into the folder
structure you lose site of the 'bigger picture' of where the resources
are
in relation to everything else.
I have recently been running training at a few colleges with the Mind
Mapping software 'Inspirations', and I have discovered that it is
possible
to use Inspirations to link learning resources together in a meaningful
organised structured visual map, you can then package the whole thing up
as
HTML (and Inspirations will then take copies of all the resources in
this
process) and then upload the whole thing to a VLE.
The advantages are:-
1) If you have a lot of resources to upload, this is actually a much
quicker
way of doing this
2) The learners have the resources arranged in a more meaningful way
3) As the whole thing is packaged in HTML, you can access the materials
on
any computer without needing the Inspirations software
4) If in the future your organisation ever changes VLE, rather than
transferring 100s of individual resources, you would only have to
transfer a
much smaller number of packages
5) The packages could work offline, so if networks fail, you have some
kind
of a back up plan
I have so far tested this with Moodle and Blackboard, and instructions
for
each are on my blog, links are below. I imagine that the process will
work
with other VLEs and with other Mind Mapping software, but I haven't had
a
chance to test them yet.
Moodle
http://davefoord.wordpress.com/2008/06/23/integrating-inspirations-outpu
ts-i
nto-moodle-to-manage-files/
or
http://tinyurl.com/4jhf8d
Blackboard
http://davefoord.wordpress.com/2008/05/20/uploading-an-inspirations-outp
ut-t
o-blackboard/
Or
http://tinyurl.com/5ld5r5
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