Sunday, June 1, 2008

Collaboration

Austin is sitting in a chair with the audience while presenting his PowerPoint presentation.

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Austin: One of the underlying principles in concept mapping is that the learner can see visually relationships between elements of what he or she is learning.

Herman: Such as logical connections like cause and effect, subordination giving examples, and so on?

Austin: Exactly. This enables us go outside a top-down approach, to escape from two dimensional modeling and enter into three dimensional, collaborative representations.

Herman: So this is why you leave the chair empty and give your presentation from within the audience instead of from the front of the room? To enhance the atmosphere of collaboration?

Austin. Precisely. But it also allows me to avoid neckstrain caused by constantly swinging between the screen and the audience. This way I’m much more relaxed.

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4 Comments:

At June 3, 2008 at 12:55 AM , Blogger Ron de Weijze said...

Actually, concept mapping is MUCH more than going outside of a top-down approach: it is what leads up to an analytical top-down unwinding for it is the winding-up or synthesis itself, handing every attendant a chance to decide for him/herself whether or not to feel captivated, to agree, to comment and to have the elements of the concept renamed, relocated, relinked or re-used on other concept maps, to integrate the maps into a cohesive whole and bring the 'observed teacher thinking' to the Extended abstract
level [1].

[1] http://tsreadinglog.blogspot.com/2008/05/taxonomy-of-observed-teacher-thinking.html

 
At June 3, 2008 at 10:58 PM , Blogger Barry Natusch said...

Thanks for taking the time to contribute that clarification, Ron. Trying to fit complex ideas into a short dialogues for filming usually results in my grossly oversimplifying concepts. I didn't do Lawrie Hunter's presentation justice. It's at http://www.core.kochi-tech.ac.jp/hunter/professional/novakian/hunter_novakian.ppt.htm

You've piqued my interest in your webpage. I intend to explore it further next few days.

 
At June 3, 2008 at 11:02 PM , Blogger Barry Natusch said...

I notice this template cuts addresses off. tsreading was truncated so I couldn't access it.

If I break Lawrie Hunter's address into two parts you can join them together:

http://www.core.kochi-tech.ac.jp/hunter/professional/novakian/hunter_novakian.ppt.htm
novakian/hunter_novakian.ppt.htm

 
At June 3, 2008 at 11:13 PM , Blogger Barry Natusch said...

Got the truncation problem sorted. The full address appears in the page view. So I accessed tsreading link, and surprise, surprise, I found myself in Palmerston North at Massey University where I used to work back in the 1970s. One of Professor Cynthia White's students!

 

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