{"id":1757,"date":"2013-07-05T23:57:55","date_gmt":"2013-07-06T06:57:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/chendricks\/?p=1757"},"modified":"2013-07-06T01:15:21","modified_gmt":"2013-07-06T08:15:21","slug":"a-map-of-influence-of-etmooc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/chendricks\/2013\/07\/05\/a-map-of-influence-of-etmooc\/","title":{"rendered":"A map of influence of #etmooc"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m marginally participating, here and there, in #clmooc: Making Learning Connected MOOC.<\/a><\/span>\u00a0<\/span>I would participate more, but for the past few weeks I’ve been: (1) finishing up<\/span> ds106<\/a> <\/span>(and yes, I know it’s never really finished! Most of my ds106 projects are posted on a tumblr,<\/span> here<\/a><\/span>), (2) moving out of my apartment in Melbourne, Australia where I’ve lived for a year on sabbatical, (3) travelling, (4) making the journey home to Vancouver (I’m still on #4 right now, waiting in an airport with a delayed flight).<\/span><\/p>\n

At any rate, one of the projects in #clmooc for this week is to make a map–a map of anything you want. I chose to make a mind map of what I’ve been doing over the past few months, as a result of my participation in<\/span> #etmooc, the Educational Technology and Media MOOC<\/a><\/span> that took place Jan-March 2013. #etmooc had a profound impact on me and my work, which I wanted to capture in a mind map.<\/span><\/p>\n

After doing a search for free mind mapping software, and finding<\/span> ,this Wikipedia page<\/a><\/span> I decided to give<\/span> Mindmup<\/a><\/span> a try. I liked that it is open source and free, and that it seems pretty easy to start using. It doesn’t have a lot of bells and whistles, but it’s quick to learn how to use and to make a map. You can include links just by typing in the URL, and it automatically turns it into a link. Apparently you can add attachments too, though I didn’t try that.<\/span><\/p>\n

The one thing I wanted to do but couldn’t was to add a “parent” to the main parent in the middle, which is #etmooc itself. I wanted to just say that I heard about #etmooc through Twitter, through my PLN. But I couldn’t figure out how to do that. Oh well; I’m happy with it otherwise.<\/span><\/p>\n

You don’t have to create an account to create a map, though I don’t know how you can save it on their site w\/o an account. I saved it to Google Drive, but you can also save it to GitHub if you want. <\/span><\/p>\n

You can get an embed code for your site if you save it on Mindmup (which you can ALSO do after saving it on Google Drive or GitHub). That’s what I used below. I like how it works on the blog–you can resize it and move around it…nice!<\/span><\/p>\n

#ETMOOC: Educational Technology and Media MOOC, Jan-March 2013 http:\/\/etmooc.org on MindMup<\/a>
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