Mindswamp
Posted on June 4, 2005
SWINT, an instance of a mindswap is a collaborative website with the topic arranged alphabetically by title - not hypertextually as in a wiki, no chronologically as in a blog, but sequentially as in an index. It carries the warning:
Disclaimer: This site is for demo purposes only! Consider all data as fake.
The main categories are
- View terrorist:
- Find terrorist events in:
- View organization:
URL: http://swint.mindswap.org/pages/
Continue reading "Mindswamp"Shared concept mapping
Posted on June 4, 2005
Concept maps are a tool for organizing and representing knowledge ([1]). Figure 1 shows a simple concept map. Each node in the graph represents a concept . Loosely, a concept corresponds to a thing or process that we know something about. According to Josesp D. Novak, the developer of the concept map, a concept is defined "as a perceived regularity in events or objects, or records of events or objects, designated by a label." Webster's dictionary defines a concept as "an abstract or generic idea generalized from particular instances." In figure 1, there are five concepts: Domestic Felines, Long hair cats, Short hair cats, Maine Coon Cat, and Siamese.
In concept maps, the unit of meaning is the proposition. A proposition consists of two concept nodes linked by a relation. In Figure 1, the two nodes Short hair cat and Siamese, linked by the relation example of form a proposition. A proposition is similar to a statement. In this example, the proposition represents the statement, "Siamese is an example of the class short hair cats."
Source: Concept Mapping Help, http://whizlab.isis.vt.edu/CMT/help/Introduction.html