Answers to the points below
1) - With most of the mind mapping software you can choose the layout of the
map (e.g. either free flowing mind map, or more structured hierarchal
structure) so it will be possible for the tutor to choose whatever is most
appropriate for the given resource before the export. However once this is
produced the learner won't be able to change it. The beauty of using a mind
map, is that you can include other information in the map, that aren't
links, or parts of the 'index' which helps to give contextual information
2) - The outputs I assume won't be SCORM or IMS compliant, but because they
are HTML, there shouldn't be any migration problems, as any new VLE systems
should take an HTML package (if they don't then that is going to cause
serious problems in the future).
Dave Foord
A6 Training and Consultancy Ltd
Mobile: 07922115678
Tel/Fax: 01509 556950
web: www.A6training.co.uk
Skype:dave.foord
A6 Training and Consultancy LTD is a registered Company 6025999 (registered
in England and Wales).
Registered Office: 8 Cartland Drive, Loughborough, Leicestershire, LE11 5YD
-----Original Message-----
From: Virtual Learning Environments [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of
Chiner Arias, Alejandro
Sent: 23 June 2008 10:11
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: [VLES] Integrating an Inspirations output into a VLE
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
___________________________________
Alejandro Chiner, Service Innovation Officer, University of Warwick Library,
Research & Innovation Unit, Gibbet Hill Road, Coventry CV4 7AL, United
Kingdom. Tel: +(44/0) 24 765 23251, Fax: +(44/0) 24 765 24211,
[log in to unmask] http://www.warwick.ac.uk/go/riu
___________________________________
-----Original Message-----
From: Virtual Learning Environments [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of
Dave Foord
Sent: 23 June 2008 08:40
To: [log in to unmask]
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
Dave Foord
A6 Training and Consultancy Ltd
Mobile: 07922115678
Tel/Fax: 01509 556950
web: www.A6training.co.uk
Skype:dave.foord
A6 Training and Consultancy LTD is a registered Company 6025999 (registered
in England and Wales).
Registered Office: 8 Cartland Drive, Loughborough, Leicestershire, LE11 5YD
***************** List information: ***************** Remember - replies go
by default to the entire list.
Access the list via the web on http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/vle.html
To unsubscribe, email [log in to unmask] with the message: leave vle
***************** List information: ***************** Remember - replies go
by default to the entire list.
Access the list via the web on http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/vle.html
To unsubscribe, email [log in to unmask] with the message: leave vle
***************** List information: *****************
Remember - replies go by default to the entire list.
Access the list via the web on http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/vle.html
To unsubscribe, email [log in to unmask] with the message: leave vle
|