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Making concept maps in One Note

Anonymous
2013-08-02T19:27:47+00:00

Community members:

I am a faculty member at Texas Tech University, and many of our our students use concept mapping as a study tool.  As they read course material, they will make concept maps on their laptop.  I wish I could show you an example of one of the student maps, as they are quite elaborate, with links from one map to many others. 

Almost all pf our students use One Note to capture, store, and search course materials.  Several of the students have stated that they wish they could build their concept maps within One Note.  That way, they could create links between their maps and the content in the One Note Notebooks. 

It would help our students if Microsoft could combine the easy concept mapping capability of MS Visio with the easy Notebook information capture and searching capability of One Note.

What do you all think,

Gordon (at Texas Tech)

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  1. Anonymous
    2013-08-05T05:39:51+00:00

    Yes, the tools and techniques I suggested are all too slow for live note taking. OneNote would have been ideal, but MS has not put the features in place to make it work.

    CmapTools must be fast/easy to use if students can use it to take notes in class.  During my last round of school I did most of my note taking on computers, using Word and PDF editors. But mindmapping was just too free-form and fast paced for anything I've worked with.  Mindmapping is something I'd do on paper in class (or business meeting), then redo in software "offline" (after session was done).

    Actually, setting up a mind mapping tool is not easy, computers are very literal, straight line, Point A to B to C ..., regimented beasties. While mind mapping (or concept charting) is the very definition of random input. Lines sprouting off in all directions, text in odd places. Not the sort of thing that computers do easily.  In my mind, the ideal concept would be pen input on a tablet that could later be fed through an "OCR" routine to convert the pen input into nice neat lines and boxes and text.  NOT easy.

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  2. Anonymous
    2013-08-04T14:09:29+00:00

    Hello Rohn:

    Here is an example of a map created by one of our students.  It diagrams the medications used to treat tuberculosis.  G

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  3. Anonymous
    2013-08-04T12:49:25+00:00

    It really would help if you could show us an example.  It sounds like something known as Mind Mapping . That is not a feature offered in OneNote yet.

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  4. Anonymous
    2013-08-04T11:45:48+00:00

    Halo.

    The following thread questioned/requested an almost similar feature and it was started in February 2011.

    http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/office/forum/office\_2010-onenote/mind-mapping-onenote/a406ae49-ccca-4125-89e6-2273fb6f7cae

    NB: I know of some applications for that purpose such as CMap, VUE, FreePlane, etc. What application do most of your students use ?

    Thanks

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  5. Anonymous
    2013-08-03T15:04:59+00:00

    Hi Gordon,

    Since we use the app too, we want it to be as awesome as possible. We listen to all feedback and consider it for future releases. Your feedback helps us know which features are most important to you. However, for a variety of reasons we cannot discuss planned features, their priorities, or the dates that we expect these features to be released.

    If you have any other questions related to Office products, get back to us and we’ll be happy to assist you.

    Thank you

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