Thursday, November 8, 2007

Meta Map

Yeah! Here is my best meta map to date. This map includes much of my learning over the past few months in reading and conversation. I started this map by reflecting on the reading I have done and sort of brainstormed all the big ideas I thought were important. Then I read all of my concept maps for big ideas that connected across the reading to try and synthesize these big ideas. Finally, I read through my concept maps again for details and clarity and built up the map to this point. There are clearly more details to some of these bubbles that are in concept maps for single books. I tried to keep the wording the same so that if I want to go back for details, I can find connections by verbage. The pedagogy section is a bit too dense and I had to re-arrange some of the bubbles so that they were not overlapping and the connecting arrows were visible by hand. I don't think Inspiration can handle that level of complexity in arrangement. Anyway, I have it printed on four sheets of 11x17 paper and taped them together so I have a tangible graphic organizer as I begin to write my paper.


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