Originally published here.
I started the week with a new idea about how to improve the note taking and it occured to me that up until now I had not made any mindmap! I like the concept and I certainly enjoyed making them as well as using others’ when I attended another MOOC, ITyPA, end of last year.
Here’s what I produced, using Mindmeister:
Click to surf to the actual result. Don’t be surprised, if you find this blog/post late to not find it as I only have a free account on Mindmeister thus a limited number of maps there.
Only today did I realize although I had made the map public I failed to realize I could have also made it possible for visitors to not only view it but edit it. It would have made the Google+ session on Wednesday even more interactive in addition to 80+ comments posted on the community within 1 hour.
Speaking of community… During ITyPA we had a least once a week a hangout session gathering a few participants. I tried, twice this week alone, with people attending this MOOC: nobody showed up.
Hence my tweet yesterday:
C’est sans enthousiasme que je m’attaque à la critique d’un texte (dont je me fous) – smithsonianmag.com/history-archae…
— Pascal Le Rudulier (@plerudulier) February 16, 2013
At least I made my hangout session useful, writing this week paper while sharing it, live. Had anybody showed up we could have worked on it together.
Following pic is a screenshot of today’s hangout, as an example of what is possible.
The article we had to comment proved to be difficult to grasp. I would normally skip that kind of post. I like funny and I like serious but when both do collide the mix is … not to my taste as I constantly wonder whether it is made up or based upon solid documentations. I tried to cover all points : the scientific, the cultural, the religious, … I wish I had other members of the group I was in to work with and go deeper when necessary here and there.
