Tim Wang's eLearning Blog

This is a work in progress. Uli and I are invited to do a pre-conference workshop in collaboration with friends from SURF, Netherlands at this year's Educause in Seattle a week from now. It is a continuing workshop from our last year's Educause pre-con workshop on Pachyderm. The workshop on our side will be covering concept mapping tools and rich media. We will introduce a new tool which will convert Pachyderm presentations into standard concept mapping XML and then one can use open source concept mapping tools such as VUE to outline the entire Pachyderm presentation or even browse through them screen by screen!

The simple reason behind this is because Pachyderm presentations are hardly linear, the object oriented designs can easily get the learners (even the designers themselves sometimes). Therefore, a tool to sketch out the package outline (like a site map for a site) is very much needed. In order to demonstrate the tool, we created a Pachyderm presentation on Arts Metaverse which we will be handing out to the workshop participants and ask them browse through the presentation. Then we will ask them to use the tool and convert the presentation into a concept map to see if it would help them to further understand the topic. As I said, it's a work in progress. But feel free to check out the Pachyderm presentation on Arts Metaverse and Ancient Spaces. Stay tuned for further information.