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In the documentation there is a heavy emphasis on collaboration and the sharing of maps. There are several public servers which can store your CMAPs so that they might be shared with others and IHMC provides the server software so that you can set up your own private server so that maps may be shared within an organisation.
Concept maps are similar to mind maps but they have a different emphasis and use. Mind maps are arranged as a tree hierarchy whilst concept maps are a network. Concept maps can have descriptions associated with their links to define the relationship between the nodes being connected. Sentences can be implied by the concepts and their linking phrases. Mind maps generally do not have link phrases.
CMAP Tools can do both mind maps and cognitive maps but cognitive maps are easier to construct with this software. The links do have linking phrases and these can be linked to, so links can split and combine. Floating nodes are supported. You can have multiple maps on one sheet, the sheet is extremely large, I kept placing nodes further and further out but I was unable to find the limits of the sheet. You extend the sheet by trying to drag something past the edge of the sheet, the sheet just grows to accommodate it.
Once the resource is attached there is the problem of how to use that resource. Unfortunately this is not very obvious from the documentation, I found it by messing about with the program. The first assumption I made was to double click the link, but nothing happens, I suspect that many people would do the same when first taking a look at the program. But that is not how you open a link in CMAP Tools. You single click on the link and a small box opens up containing the title of the resource (or a list if there are more than one) then you click on the name in the box.
If the link is to a data file then CMAP Tools opens the default program for that file, if the link is to a data file or to any executable file then an annoying dialog box opens to ask you if you really do want to open the link.
Neither of these facilities are very useful. If you add too much text to a node the whole program slows down to a crawl. The tooltip text is too small for comfortable reading of large bodies of text and the hidden text is just a bad way of implementing a proper keywords system. However you can link nodes to plain text files which can contain as much text as you like.
CMAP Tools has its own style. The default is boxes with slightly rounded corners and straight lines but the style of lines and nodes can be changed once they have been placed. It would have been nice to be able to change the default style. The range of looks available is quite good, colours of various elements can be set as well as nodes having drop shadows.
The program is easy to use and it is simple to make a layout with lots of nodes and links fast, just jotting down brief details to be fleshed out later, as such it would be good for use in a lecture theatre for quickly capturing the salient points of the lecture.
The keyboard shortcuts are not customisable. Some aspects of the program are not very obvious (like links) but once you have figured out some of the more arcane aspects and with regular use it should become simple to operate.
There is a tool for making presentations with your maps and it seems simpler and more straightforward to use than the one which comes with VUE. With VUE you set a path through your map, with CMAP Tools you define a series of slides which are to be presented full screen.
Inspiration is a commercial mind mapping and outlining tool, it is not expensive but beware if you want to buy it the company will only sell it to you if you are in America, they do not ship to the rest of the world, just another example of American parochial attitudes.
The export facilities were more useful. The export functions are available from a menu on the map window itself. CMAP Tools exports to various image file formats, to .PDF and postscript files, to .SVG files, to a web page, to a text file, to a Life Map file or to the CMAP tools files, CMAP Outline, .CXL .XTM .XCM and .IVML formats.
The IHMC CmapTools software (for Mac and PC) empowers users to construct, navigate, share, and criticize knowledge models represented as Concept Maps. A concept map is a diagram showing the relationships among concepts. They are graphical tools for organizing and representing knowledge.
Concepts, usually represented as boxes or circles, are connected with labeled arrows in a downward-branching hierarchical structure. The relationship between concepts can be articulated in linking phrases such as "gives rise to", "results in", "is required by," or "contributes to".
Cmap Tools is a suite of software for creating, sharing and criticise knowledge models represented as concept maps. The suite is free, however, donations are encouraged to support the development of the tools.
Gary Velan and colleagues trialed Knowledge Maps for novice medical students enrolled in their first course of a six-year undergraduate medicine program, in the second formative assessment for the 2017 course. Students perceived that the mapping tool improved and motivated learning, helped them identify important concepts, was simple to use, and they would recommend to others. The students also commented that the maps were easy to use, and that they helped link everything together.
The Connectivity Map (CMap) is a massive resource of perturbational gene expression profiles built by researchers at the Broad Institute and funded by the NIH Library of Integrated Network-Based Cellular Signatures (LINCS) program. Please visit for more information. The cmapR package implements methods to parse, manipulate, and write common CMap data objects, such as annotated matrices and collections of gene sets.
I tried to report but it seems like impossible, as Antonio Rojas (arojas) claims it is not the_silver_searcher issue, but exactly that package gave the error during installation. He does not look into report and just closes issues. Also he says, like it is MY issue, but I just mentioned, that cannot install due fatal bug. It seems like cmaptools cannot be installed since March, 2020 already, today is already the end of November, 2021... Although CmapTools is a lot used in academic world and very much needed. Well, we need to go manual. I don't have these skills to package here anything.
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CMap Tools ( ) is a concept mapping freeware utilized as a visual learning tool used to organize, present, and share knowledge. CMap tools allows learners to look at the relationships between concepts and understand them as part of understanding a single concept. The software encourages collaboration and allows users to share ideas and to make comments. This process provides interactive learning among students of all different types and levels. This page explores the CMap Tools application, how to use the software, its transformative potential, and will provide you with some tools that you might need to integrate concept maps into your classroom.
In the 1960's educational psychologist, David Ausabel, _Ausubel, proposed the idea that cognitively learning is achieved by assimilation of new concepts to join and expand upon previously held knowledge by the learner. Thus, in the mind of the learner, a sort of structure is developed known as the cognitive structure. [1]
The development of Concept Maps emerged via the work of Joseph Novak, _D._Novak, was done in 1972. While researching education in science, children were interviewed, but the need arose for some sort of documentation of the data, and the format of graphic representation emerged.[2]
A concept map allows learners to identify knowledge within a particular context, typically by using a focus question. A list of core topics, or key concepts are developed and identified that relate to the domain knowledge and the topics should be ordered in a hierarchical sense. One of the advantages of using software to participate in this process is that the reordering or restructuring of the hierarchy layout can be done easily. A concept map can be an ongoing project to be reconstructed as knowledge evolves. After the rough hierarchy has been enacted, links between the conepts should be developed showing the relationship between topics. [3] This method of learning enables learners to understand that ideas are not isolated and free standing. Ideas and concepts are linked to additional ideas and concepts and learning how and why can help us to understand the main concept we are trying to learn.
Jonassen defines concept maps as "spacial representations of concepts and their interrelationships that stimulate the knowledge structures that humans store in their minds." [4] Jonassen concurs with the Novak and Caas description by stating, "Concept mapping is a process of identifying important concepts, arranging those concepts spatially, and identifying relationships among those concepts, and labeling the nature of the relationships among those concepts." [5] Concept maps allow learners to contemplate relationships among ideas and thoughts and also think about how the ideas fit together, learning by analyzing and reviewing many thoughts and ideas.
CMap Tools was developed at the Institute for Human and Machine Cognition, joining the concept mapping theory with a practical technology partner. The software can be downloaded for free, projects may be developed, used and revised at home by students or in the classroom. One of it's greatest strengths is the powerful collaborative community available to users. The concept map on CMaps can be enhanced by linking items that include images, documents, videos, charts, or other concept maps. [6]
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