Concept maps for all lessons

[SonOfLilit]

I'm not sure if this is wanted, but I made them for myself so I'm sharing them and you decide.

The diff also contains a warning about colrm not always being installed.

[SonOfLilit]

[gdevenyi]

@SonOfLilit Could you please break-out the fix about colrm, that is immediately mergeable.

[gdevenyi]

@gvwilson This isn't just concept maps for shell, it's actually for a bunch of things.

Do we want to include concept maps in lessons? I thought they were more of a learning tool, rather than a teaching tool.

[gvwilson]

Several instructors have said they'd find concept maps useful as a guide
to them for teaching the lessons, so yeah, if people are willing to
construct, critique, and maintain them, I'd be happy to include them.

[gdevenyi]

Perhaps this material should go in an instructor's guide.

Probably needs to be broken up due to #759

[SonOfLilit]

I'll just say that my students found it useful that I introduced the "magic words" in each lesson at the beginning (with a sentence about each one's role), and then went over them again at the end to make sure they all understand them now. Of course, an instructor can easily not use it.

[chendaniely]

useful that I introduced the "magic words" in each lesson at the beginning

+1 I've had experiences with this as well.

Just a thought if we want to include concept maps: should we write them using Ditaa? This way the diffs are less crazy

[SonOfLilit]

Did you look at mine (sources, not rendered versions)?

dot does a pretty good job with them in my opinion, and the diffs are
great.

On Tue, Sep 30, 2014 at 12:43 AM, Daniel Chen notifications@github.com
wrote:

useful that I introduced the "magic words" in each lesson at the beginning
I've had experiences with this as well.

Just a thought if we want to include concept maps: should we write them
using Ditaa
http://orgmode.org/worg/org-contrib/babel/languages/ob-doc-ditaa.html?
This way the diffs are less crazy

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[chendaniely]

dot does a pretty good job with them in my opinion, and the diffs are great.

oops! didn't see those. Yes that is probably much better than solution :)

[gvwilson]

I vote for doing a handful using anything at all, putting them in front
of learners, and seeing if they find them useful, then worrying about
tooling... :-)