Forum LAMS for Tech-Heads - General Forum: Re: Μind Map or Concept/Mind Map

By: Spyros Papadakis

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Both terms concept maps ("Εννοιολογικοί χάρτες" in Greek) and mind maps ("Νοητικοί χάρτες" ή "Χάρτες Εννοιών" in Greek)used in Europe in a form of semantic network.

Concept mapping is used more general.

The difference between concept maps and mind maps is that a mind map has only one main concept, while a concept map may have several.

A mind map can be represented as a tree, while a concept map may need a network representation.


The IHMC CmapTools program http://cmap.ihmc.us)is one of the most popular software in Europe for concept mapping.

Posted by Spyros Papadakis

By: Muesser Cemal Nat

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Hi,

I am currently working on LAMS and I would like to use concept map tool instead of mind map tool.

The IHMC Cmap tool is very nice tool.

Is there any way to integrate this tool into LAMS?

Thanks,

Posted by Muesser Cemal Nat

By: Ernie Ghiglione

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> IHMC Cmap

Is this a web application? It looks, for the little I've seen, that this is actually a desktop application. Is it?

Posted by Ernie Ghiglione

By: Muesser Cemal Nat

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Yes, it's a Software Toolkit. However, concept maps can be opened on the web with CmapTools.

Posted by Muesser Cemal Nat

By: Ernie Ghiglione

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Hi Muesser,

I had a closer look and downloaded the CmapTools to my desktop. However, do you know where's the webstart to add this a webpage?

Thanks,

Ernie

Posted by Ernie Ghiglione

By: Daniel Schneider

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I may be wrong, but IMHO there is no webstart version. The CMAP client will directly talk a CMAP server for (optional) uploading/downloading

Trouble with CMAP is that most of the doc are a big lot of CMAPs (IMHO overuse of concept maps).

Anyhow, in http://tinyurl.com/2pmy9d I don't see any webstart version.

Posted by Daniel Schneider