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To learn working with Freeplane, we will start creating a concept map for Digital Story Telling; you will see above that Freeplane has opened a window with a box with text "New mindmap".  This node, also called the "root node" will contain the core idea/ theme of the resource.  Additional ideas are added by adding more nodes, called child nodes.  The concept map gets built by adding further child nodes, for topics and sub-topics.  Use the ‘insert’ key to create a ‘child node’ this is a sub-concept of your current concept. Use the ‘enter’ key to create a ‘sibling’ this is a parallel concept to your current concept. Thus you can create a concept map with knowing just two functions – add child node (insert) and add sibling node (enter).

To learn working with Freeplane, we will start creating a concept map for Digital Story Telling; you will see above that Freeplane has opened a window with a box with text "New mindmap".  This node, also called the "root node" will contain the core idea/ theme of the resource.  Additional ideas are added by adding more nodes, called child nodes.  The concept map gets built by adding further child nodes, for topics and sub-topics.  Use the ‘insert’ key to create a ‘child node’ this is a sub-concept of your current concept. Use the ‘enter’ key to create a ‘sibling’ this is a parallel concept to your current concept. Thus you can create a concept map with knowing just two functions – add child node (insert) and add sibling node (enter).

[[File:Conceptmap2.png|left|thumb|450x450px|Creating the node tree for a concept map]]

[[File:Conceptmap2.png|left|thumb|504x504px|Creating the node tree for a concept map]]

[[File:COL_-_Concept_Map_on_DST.png|none|thumb|450x450px|A concept map on digital story telling]]

[[File:COL_-_Concept_Map_on_DST.png|none|thumb|448x448px|A concept map on digital story telling]]

As a part of this toolkit, we have developed a concept map on digital story telling.  Concept maps can be stored on your folders; they are saved with an extension ".mm". We have created a concept map called Learning Digital Story Telling and saved it on a folder with other resources accessed from the internet earlier.  We will create a concept map on ‘Learning Digital Story Telling’ with Freeplane. We will save the concept map in the folder ‘Learning Digital Story Telling’ as  Learning Digital Story Telling.mm. The extension .mm stands for mindmap. Our map has nodes for the ‘why’, ‘what’ and ‘how’ of DST, with sub-nodes. The main node has a hyper-link which opens the wikipedia page on DST.

As a part of this toolkit, we have developed a concept map on digital story telling.  Concept maps can be stored on your folders; they are saved with an extension ".mm". We have created a concept map called Learning Digital Story Telling.mm and saved it on our folder for text resources as part of the personal digital library for digital story telling.  The extension .mm stands for mindmap. Our map has nodes for the ‘why’, ‘what’ and ‘how’ of DST, with sub-nodes.  

Likewise, please create a concept map and save it with the same name in your folder you have created with your topic name. Note that simply saving the file will save it with the name you have given in the root node. Create the sub-nodes for each node as per your imagination / thinking about the topic. Finally export the concept map to an image format. We will discuss how you can use this image in the next chapter.

Likewise, please create a concept map and save it with the same name in your folder you have created with your topic name. Note that simply saving the file will save it with the name you have given in the root node. Create the sub-nodes for each node as per your imagination / thinking about the topic. Finally export the concept map to an image format. We will discuss how you can use this image in the next chapter.

Image to display – DST concept map created using Freeplane<br>

Did you notice the red arrow in the root node of our concept map?  This main node has a hyper-link which opens the wikipedia page on DST.  You can embed a hyper-link on a node, such that clicking that node will open a page on the Internet or a file on your computer). This connects a node on your map to related resources you may want the reader to access.

 

You can embed a hyper-link on a node, such that clicking that node will open a page on the Internet or a file on your computer). This connects a node on your map to related resources you may want the reader to access.

In our  Learning Digital Story Telling.mm concept map, we will insert a hyper-link for the main node ‘Learning Digital Story Telling’. Move your cursor to this node and select Edit → Link → Add or Modify hyperlink (type). You can also use the keyboard shortcut CTRL-K. Freeplane will open an input bar. We will type in our webpage address <nowiki>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_storytelling</nowiki> into this input bar

In our  Learning Digital Story Telling.mm concept map, we will insert a hyper-link for the main node ‘Learning Digital Story Telling’. Move your cursor to this node and select Edit → Link → Add or Modify hyperlink (type). You can also use the keyboard shortcut CTRL-K. Freeplane will open an input bar. We will type in our webpage address <nowiki>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_storytelling</nowiki> into this input bar

Image to display – Inserting hyper link in Freeplane <br>

Image to display – Inserting hyper link in Freeplane <br>

You should identify a useful web resource for any one node. You should similarly insert this hyper link for that node following the same steps. Note that Freeplane provides a pink arrow in the node, to signify that the node has a hyper link. Clicking on this pink arrow will open the web page that is linked. In this manner, your concept map OER can provide links for each node, to access information on the world wide web, enriching the OER.

You should identify a useful web resource for any one node. You should similarly insert this hyper link for that node following the same steps. Note that Freeplane provides a pink arrow in the node, to signify that the node has a hyper link. Clicking on this pink arrow will open the web page that is linked. In this manner, your concept map OER can provide links for each node, to access information on the world wide web, enriching the OER.