Jeff Monday erklärt in einem Video anschaulich, warum sich Dots für Präsentationen eignen:

Einfachheit (Biblionetz:w01881) bzw. John Maeda mit seinem Buch The Laws of Simplicity (Biblionetz:b03122) lassen grüssen.

Diese Diskussion hatten wir bei unseren Didactic Process Maps auch schon: Punkte statt Personen?

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After studying our first efforts to define a "didactic process map language" Main.VincentTscherter proposed to emphasize the group configarion more by using other icons for the actors. He had the jigsaw method in mind and drawed something like this on the whiteboard:

Kevin Makice blogged about our DPM-Workshop @ WikiSym 2006:

It's interesting to read how a participant describes our workshop, what made sense for him and what wasn't clear enough. So: Thanks for the feedback! , IsInEnglish

As expected DPM is not the first try to visualize didactic processes. In the book chapter LEO: A Concept Map Based Course Visualization Tool for Instructors and Students ) (Biblionetz:t04914) John W. Coffey presents an extension of the concept mapping software cmap (Biblionetz:w01642) as a tool for planning and delivering education courses. He argues that the resulting concept maps can be used as advance organizers (Biblionetz:w01732) by students.

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Our Workshop @ WikiSym 2006 on Using Wikis in education is over and it was very interesting (at least for us...)!

We presented a draft of our Didactic Process Map Language and got lot of useful feedback. It was interesting that most of the recommendations about improving DPM included the use of computer interfaces: "You should be able to click on a phase and see the details." It wasn't the intention of us to create a language for designing scenarios in front of a computer screen. We want to create a tool for face-to-face discussions in workshops where a group of people stands in front of big sheet of paper and can point to specific details of the scenario:

Some links:

• Homepage of the workshop in the DPM wiki
• Fotos of the workshop @ Flickr , IsInEnglish,