1. Online tools to enhance classroom engagement -
Wordclouds and Concept mapping
Tech Talk Tuesday -
session 3

2. “The first duty of a lecturer is to hand you after an
hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up
between the pages of your notebooks and keep on the
mantelpiece forever” - Virginia Woolf
Why must we consider other methods of learning when
we can give our learners so many pure truths?
Brainstorm on the collaborative document.

3. http://www.wordle.net/
NB use Internet Explorer or Mozilla (not Chrome)
Or http://www.tagxedo.com/
Or http://tagcrowd.com/
Or Google App
http://wordcloud.booogle.net/
Wordclouds

4. Is there a word that stands out to
differentiate?
Rubric Marking guide

5. One activity
Students were asked if the wordcloud accurately reflected
the critical points in an article -
‘I thought you were showing me something that would save me doing as much
work, but I soon worked out that you can’t do a good word cloud unless you
really understand the stuff first. Now I find I’m really trying to understand what I
read. I think you tricked us by giving us a fun thing to do so we’d think
accounting was fun.’

6. How could you use?
Ideas for Wordclouds - slideshare
Ideas for Wordclouds - article
Journal of SoTL article - a study with accounting students

7. Have a go!

8. Concept
Mapping
For understanding and
revision
And waking up sleepy
learners!

9. Concept mapping
Inclusive teaching study by Andrea Chester et al
‘ A concept map is a visual representation of relationships between concepts.
Concept maps can be used to represent the relationship between elements
within a topic, relationships between topics in a course, or even courses in a
program’

10. Why use
concept
maps?

11. Student responses
‘I found this experience very enlightening. I already had this software on my
laptop from when I was in high school, but had never really seen the benefit of
using it. I now see how useful it can be.’
‘key concepts were able to be linked, rather than presented and learned as a list i
was able to use one piece of information to prompt other information which i
think will be great when under exam conditions, if i remember the basic map, i
can use what i do remember to cue more information and fill in the blanks.’
http://mams.rmit.edu.au/mc0b2wexcrylz.pdf

12. HINT
In lectures stop every
15 minutes and ask
groups to create a
concept map of the
key concepts
covered.

13. Coggle.it
Check this one out
https://coggle.it/diagram/Vun7UCKYkfwaBiyM
Help video
And one made with Screencast-o-matic

14. Apps for concept mapping
iPad and iPhone APPS e.g. SimpleMind works on both Apple
and Android
Apps for Android
Simplemind with video tutorial
Online - Bubbl.us

15. Have a go!

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