vue

iCentre | Vue

=Vue - Brainstorming, concept maps, mind maps, image maps=

Really good for presentations as well as concept mapping, very clean interface - can zoom in close to images, e.g. art. Can set up a pathway to show slides in order wanted. Have to download tool. Can copy onto a wiki, see below. Main site: http://vue.tufts.edu User guide: https://wikis.uit.tufts.edu/confluence/display/VUEUserGuide/ENGLISH+USER+GUIDE More about setting up Pathways and Zooming: http://vue.tufts.edu/features/index.cfm

An example of our image map / interactive web graphic in our virtual learning environment: media type="custom" key="22661316" Choose shape, fill of nodes and line colours - good to choose middle range colours - right arrow on main tool bar shows map with a black background. To add a node to a map: Command N (or CTRL N). Text: Command T. Choose start and end arrows if needed. Add a node, drag corner to size wanted. Check text size - change in Formatting Palette. Can change the link shape in Formatting Palette, to an arc or s curve - really nice handles to control it's shape (as in Illustrator). To edit text, select T in main palette (or Cmd T), click 3 times in a node or click text in a node and then select with mouse. Other method: right click node, select Node Info, make changes. Can add notes and keywords as well. To duplicate a node, select it, copy and paste with Command C, Command V. But, really nice rapid prototyping facility in main toolbar. Select it and drag out from a node as many times as want Use link tool to draw arrows between nodes, add label in centre of line if wanted. Change font size in formatting palette. Hand icon in main tool bar slides the map. Can copy a style of a node by selecting node to copy from, Cmd Shift C or right click and copy style. Then select node to copy to and Cmd Shift V or right click and apply style. Move nodes using selection tool and dragging or arrow keys. Use the selection tool to select multiple nodes and arrows and make changes to all in one go.
 * To set up a brainstorm**, open Window / Formatting Palette and drag it below the main toolbar.

(Reset to 100% size: Command ') or use magnifier in toolbar - +, -, and open toggles a selection larger and smaller. Or, open Window / Exploration Palette choose Zoom (to fit a selection to the size of the window) or Fit (to fit the map contents to the window).
 * Zooming**: Zoom in: Command = Zoom out: Command -

To highlight a section of the map by lessening the opacity of the rest (useful if want to talk about a section). Open Windows / Exploration Palette. Select a subset and slide opacity bar, can expand selection.

Images, documents and web links can add to zoom in on or link to.
 * Layers:** Can add a duplicate or empty layer to build up a slide show. Can move a selection to a different layer
 * Image:** can drag from a web page into a node
 * Background image**: add the image to its own layer and lock the layer.

Adding content: Web page - open browser to page and drag address icon onto node or background. Can change name, box with "web" gives an active link. Can put several on a node. Resources from your computer - Windows/Resources, locate and drag files over.

Open Windows / Layers window and Resources window. Drag image over from Resources - comes into a node wrapper. With special selection tool (middle one) selected, select image in node, copy and paste, delete original node. With regular selection tool drag resize handles to widen image. In layers window, lock background layer - it greys out so can work on top of it.
 * To add a background image to a map:**

If the map contains local files, use the File > Save As VPK (VUE Package) choice. If it is saved as vue, you can always go back to make changes.
 * Saving:** Can save as a png, jpg or pdf or an interactive web graphic (map).

Need to modify the html code: Save interactive map as Interactive Web Graphic (don't have any spaces in the file names before you save). You will get 2 files - html and png (e.g. test.html and test.png - png is an image file like gif and jpg).
 * Uploading to the CLC:**

Upload png image to the CLC. Don't insert - the html file will do this. Click update group homepage. Go back into the edit and you will see the png file is in the embedded files list.

You need to find out what the CLC is going to call this image. To find out it's name, in the CLC page, go to another part and place the image in here (delete it later). Use the angle brackets <> (View/Edit Source) to look for this image name - it will be on a line which looks like this: < img border="0" src="/GroupDownloadAttachment.asp?GroupId=40877&AttachmentID=48021" alt="" style="width: 186px; margin-right: 20px; height: 140px;" / >< br / > The section you will need to copy into the HTML file code is this part: /GroupDownloadAttachment.asp?GroupId=40877&AttachmentID=48021 Take a copy of this part of the code showing up in your CLC page.

The HTML file code needs to be stripped back. Open it in a text editor such as Word Pad or Text Wrangler (not Notepad) - remove everything before the, remove everything after. Paste the new file into the img line at src=" Into this line also add border="0" as shown below, to stop a border appearing around the edge. Add alt="name" to all elements - img and all area elements (not map or div).

The should start something like this:      

This code can then be copied and pasted into the place you want it in the CLC, using the <>. It should put the png image in place. To put more than 1 image map on a page, change the name vuemap where it occurs twice or else the mapping will get mixed up.

For Wikispaces you just need to change the image name (upload the image to Wikispaces and look for the name of the image by clicking on it). The code for the map on the following image is this:

          <area id="node9" shape="rect" coords="316,35,385,57"> <area id="node10" shape="rect" coords="156,19,239,71"> media type="custom" key="22601916" Note: The image map at the top of the page doesn't show the "web" codes on each of the nodes. There was an extra step in creating this. 1. Set up the concept map as you want it to look and save it as an interactive web graphic. The png image and the html image are what you will be using but urls will be added to the html file. 2. Using the .vue file, go ahead and add the urls and save it as an interactive web graphic with a different file name. 3. Open both of the html files in a text editor such as Notepad or TextWrangler. Copy the correct url link and can add target="_blank" if you would like the link to open on a new page. E.g. <area id="node6" shape="rect" coords="183,82,261,150"> becomes <area href="http://www.abc.net.au" target="_blank" id="node6" shape="rect" coords="183,82,261,150"> include component="page" page="include_pagefooter"