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Sensemaking and Concept Maps

January 31, 2007 in Main Page | 4 comments

I have been reticent about promoting a site on which I worked hundreds of hours last year by the name of Constellation W - Towards A Knowledge-Based Society For The 21st Century .. mainly because I have not yet finished translating all of the concept maps from French into English (I’m about halfway there, and will be putting on a push to complete the translation over the next week or so).

Concept mapping is a methodology and technique for representing large or complex concepts in a clear picture or diagram, so that people can grasp more easily the core idea being explored, usually in an accompanying piece of text.

I have the good fortune and honour to be a collaborator and co-author with Michel Cartier, one of the gurus of information visulaization in the francophone world.

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February 1, 2007 at 7:47 am

Anonymous

I cannot seem to see your concept map…is the link broken?

February 1, 2007 at 10:31 am

Anonymous

Hmmm .. shows up on my screen. I wonder if it is a function of the browser you are using.

But .. I will also take the step of uploading the image to my blog platform, and then it won’t depend on the link. Let’s try that.

I hope you come back, and check it out, and let me know !

February 1, 2007 at 11:52 am

Anonymous

Thanks Jon.

Works fine now.

The Constellation W website is amazing !!!!!

It will take me a week to go through it.

Luckily I’m bilingual to read the french charts and materials.

I can’t wait to discuss your site with my colleagues

Ray Guyot in frosty or should I say polar Winnipeg

February 1, 2007 at 3:21 pm

Anonymous

Thanks, Ray.

It certainly covers a lot of ground, contains in one place a lot of useful information and has a lot of very useful concept maps that synthesize quite a bit of information.

It’s too bad that Michel Cartier is essentially unilingual. He IMO is a genius who deserves much wider ecognition, and as I said I am honoured to be his colleague and co-author.

The Aspire Team looks pretty interesting too.

It’s suny and in double digits here in Vancouver today ;-)