monika’s w e b l o g

A great tool to visualise my thoughts and concepts in the PhD-process is the concept mapping tool VUE:

“The Visual Understanding environment (VUE) is an Open Source project based at Tufts University. The VUE project is focused on creating flexible tools for managing and integrating digital resources in support of teaching, learning and research. VUE provides a flexible visual environment for structuring, presenting, and sharing digital information.”

and

“VUE provides a concept mapping interface, which can be used as such, or as an interface to organize digital content in non-linear ways.”
(Cited from the project website, 1 and 2.)

I have tried a few mind mapping software tools in the past. I always experienced limits – in the arrangement of nodes, in the possible (multiple) links among them, in the labeling, etc.
This is the first tool which provides the flexibility I need – multiple nodes and links can be created and arranged freely, still in a very intuitive way. Since it is not a strict mindmapping tool (in the sense of a center node having always to be linked to all subnodes), but a concept mapping tool, it offers more freedom in hirarching and linking. Have not tried out the presentation feature yet but it sounds promising.

(Source: screenshots from the project website)

January 29th, 2009. von Administrator.
Kategorie: visualisation|presentation. .