OKMindMap plugin for Moodle 2.3 and Moodle 2.4.1 (okay, it's for Moodle 2.x!)

Here's a glimpse of the OKMindMap plugin in action on my Moodle 2.4.1 production site. Full blog post is coming soon. Stay tuned to this channel...erm, blog.

All the features highlighted in my blog post on the Moodle 1.9 version are either retained or have been
enhanced.

Dr Ho and associates from South Korea have done the Moodle community a big favour by releasing their Moodle 2.x plugin for OKMindMap. It's an awesome project that over the past one year has seen enhances to its Graphical User Interface and usability.

I'll blog about it in my next post. See you next week by which time I will have gathered sufficient information for my blog post! In the meantime, I've got a day job that needs my attention.

Regards
Frankie Kam

Update on Friday 29/3/2013

Thanks to Dr Ho Won of South Korea for the link to the Moodle 2.3 plugin for OKMindmap which is here: http://www.modulestudy.com/Wonho/Moodle/download/okmindmap_23.zip

OkMindMap's new Ribbon. South Korean Mindmap gets better.

Checkout OKMindMap's new makeover!

Judging from the video by Dr Ho of South Korea, this new version of OkMindMap is a vast improvement over the earlier version which I blogged about here on Moodurian.blogspot.com or here on Moodlenews.com..




Doesn't the Ribbon remind your of Microsoft Office products?

If you watch the Youtube video above, you will see that an iframe node, containing another website, is possible in this version. Amazing!

So, what do you think of the new OkMindMap?

Frankie Kam

Using OKMindMap for Educational Purposes (Part1)

Dr Ho of Kongju University has produced a series of Youtube videos that show the features of OKMindMap cloud-based service. I wrote a long blog post on his OKMindMap software many months ago. 

I  understand Dr. Ho's diction reasonably well, but I thought that I would invest some hours to transcribe ALL four videos(!) of Dr. Ho. The reason for this is because I would like Dr. Ho's videos to have a greater reach to a global audience of Moodlers and other web users who may have difficulty in understanding the spoken English that has a native South Korean accent. Personally, I enjoyed watching the videos, and I hope you will too.

OkMindMap update, January 2012 - image node resize is now enabled!

OKmindmap has been updated with features as of December 22nd, 2011. To apply the updated OKMindmap, please clear your browser's cache.

★ New features for this update include:

• Image node sizes can be resized (three cheers!)

OKMindMap - make sibling nodes into a parent-and-child: a simple but not obvious operation

Hi there.

If you're using OKMindMap to build your mindmaps, this is something that may not be obvious to you. How to make two sibling nodes into parent and child node relationship.

I want to go from here:

How to embed an OKMindMap inside your blog or Moodle webpage resource.

Hi. In this post, I will show you how to embed an OKMindMap in your website or Moodle webpage resource or label.

This method is different from adding an OKMindMap activity to your Moodle site as mentioned previously in this post. That was a pretty long post wasn't it? Don't worry, this article is short(er) and sweet(er). The method oulined in this article is quite straight-forward and easier to implement that the OKMindMap activity. The advantage of a Moodle activity is that it can be tracked and logged. Warning: a mindmap embedded (as shown in the sections below) in a Moodle label resource or Moodle webpage resource cannot be logged. With that in mind, let's begin!

The window below is an example of an embedded mindmap. One of my mindmaps saved on http://www.okmindmap.com. It is live.Go ahead click on it. Hold and drag your mouse. Click on the tip of any first level node to expand the child nodes.


Here's the embed code of the above window:

<iframe src="http://www.okmindmap.com/map/ODljMGM3YmYtNDk3MC00MjJlLTkyNzAtMDIzYjgzM2I5ZWI5?m=on&g=off" width="600" height="600" ></iframe>

Using the Presentation Mode in OKMindMap

Last month I featured OKMindMap on Moodlenews.com. Within a month, I had over 430 pageviews of my blog post and Dr. Won's OKMindMap site experienced an influx hits. In today's post, I touch on another one of OKMindMap's features - the Advanced Presentation. Did you know that OKMindMap has this feature that allows nodes to be displayed as a slide? At the end of this post, you will know how to setup you OKMindMap to function like a PowerPoint presentation. So let's get started shall we?

The feature has two options,
"Edit Window enabled"
"Presentation enabled"

Here's how to set up the presentation.

From South Korea with love (for Moodle) - OKMindMap

OKmindmap (OKMM) is a South Korean web-based mindmap service. This service is touted by its developers as the world's first pure Scalar Vector Graphics-based, no-Flash-plugin-required web technology.
 It is Freemind compatible, is Web 2.0 feature-rich and the good news is that it can be integrated with Moodle.

It's developers/researchers are Professor Ho Won (Division of Electrical Electronic, and Information Engineering,Kongu National University, Cheonan, Chungnam), Jinhoon Jang, Kiwon Park and Myungsun Hahm (JinoTech, Dyryongdong, Yusungku, Daejunsi, Republic of Korea).

They have co-written a research paper entitled "Development of Universal Purpose e-Portfolio Mindmap
System on Open Platform". For those of you who are academically inclined, you can download it here. The paper's principal development tool is OKMM. More papers can be found here. Professor Ho's Moodle module page compilations are found here.


I. FEATURES

Here are some of OKMM's impressive features:

• uses pure Javascript technology - no need for Flash 
• cloud technology - can run on most web browsers without any plugin installation. 
• plays YouTube videos within a node itself (note: as of July 2011, only works with Google chrome and Apple Safari web browsers)
• fetch data from Delicious, Twitter, and Face book (Social Networking integration)
• can be used as a ePortfolio
• has been tested with up to 40 concurrent users who collaboratively built a mindmap
• can be Google Search enabled so that the user can do Web searches within the application while building the mindmap(!)
• export to Freemind, HTML, TWiki, PPT, SVG, PNG
• import from Freemind and bookmarks
• conversion from a mindmap to a structure chart (and vice-versa)
• MOODLE PLUGIN (MOD)! More on this later in this post.
• export to HTML code - hence a mindmap can be embeded in a Moodle webpage or label!
• best of all, it is FREE and UNLIMITED as far as I know. In contrast, a Web 2.0 mindmapping service like http://bubbl.us allows a limited number of mindmaps to be created for every free account.

Click here to see more screenshots of what can be done with OKMindmap.


II.  CREATING AN ACCOUNT AT OKmindmap.com

There is a "Sign in" button located in the upper-righthand corner of the homepage. Click on it (see the diagram below).