Transcript Concept Maps User Guide

Concept Maps User Guide
Updated March 2006: D. Tucker, RPh, BCPS
Overview
What are concept maps or Cmaps?
Why use concept maps?
How are code blue concept maps
accessed?
How are concept maps navigated?
What are Cmaps?
A series of tools developed by the Institute
for Human and Machine Cognition
Used to visualize a domain of knowledge
So that knowledge can be shared with
colleagues
In order enhance or give a review for that
particular set or domain of knowledge
Why use Cmaps?
Cmaps are a useful way to
communicate knowledge in a
meaningful way
Cmaps allow access to this knowledge
on the web by multiple people and at
multiple sites simultaneously
Why use Cmaps?
Cmaps allow this knowledge to be
displayed in multiple forms
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Written material
PowerPoint slides
Movies
Access to web sites
How Accessed?
The Pharmacist’s Guide to Participation
in Code Blue Emergencies is accessed
via the URL
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http://cursa.ihmc.us:80/servlet/SBReadRes
ourceServlet?rid=1139172942438_184583
8703_2356&partName=htmltext
How Navigated?
Left click once on the square at the
bottom, center of the selected concept
A list appears below the concept
Select option and left click one time
Selections will variably include PDF,
PowerPoint, films, or web site options
Choice can be read on line or printed
for later review