Web Resources

Description and example of the technique. Features links and basic references.

Paper proposes that concept maps be regarded as basic components of any hypermedia system, complementing text and images with formal and semi-formal active diagrams. By Brian R. Gaines and Mildred L. G. Shaw.

Roberto A. Flores-Méndez. Concept mapping users can be found on a wide range of areas and with different levels of expertise. Their main motivation is to create diagrams to represent and communicate information relevant to their domain.

Paper discusses concept mapping and hypermedia. Features references. By Rob Kremer and Brian R. Gaines.

Brian Ferry, John Hedberg and Barry Harper. This paper reports on preservice teachers use of a concept mapping tool to create and modify concept maps about science related curriculum content knowledge.

"Concept-Mapping" is a tool for assisting and enhancing many of the types of thinking and learning that we are required to do at university. This describes the process of manual concept mapping.

Personal Memory Manager helps you spin-off from the top: manage your own knowledge and ideas. When you write a diary or weblog, study for an exam, work on a research paper, scenario or book, you can create or import your notes into PMM and map them out like sticky or yellow notes on one or many whiteboards (one for each aspect). You model and construct one integrated "body of knowledge" representing your mind. At any moment and from any bit, you can recollect and visualize the whole information architecture surrounding it, as context, and improve on or learn from it!

SMART Ideas is concept mapping software for Windows that allows you to visually represent your ideas and their relationships using a variety of colors, shapes, symbols and links.

Article discusses the characteristics of concept maps, their epistemological foundations and offers instructions for creating them. By Joseph D. Novak.

TouchGraph allows for the creation and navigation of ineractive graphs. Ideal for orginising links, or mind mapping.

Brian R. Gaines and Mildred L. G. Shaw. This article reports experience in taking an existing open architecture concept mapping tool and making it available on the web in a number of ways.