NESTOR
The Web Browser and Cartographer
NESTOR
The Web Browser and
Cartographer
| What's new / Quoi de neuf ? |
| Past / C'est déjà passé ! |
| Presentation : Nestor is nCCC : navigator-Cartographer-Collaborative-Constructivist |
A sample of Nestor's main screen
Bookmarks don't work ?... use
Nestor maps
! / Marre des bookmarks
? ... utilisez les cartes Nestor !
|
Web map samples / Exemples de cartes |
| Free software download / Telechargement libre gratuit |
Updating : Download Nestor.exe and save it into C:\Nestor directory
(or click Nestor Help/Update menu) Latest release is Nestor - Release
9.63
Groupware : Nestor
groupware uses HTTP,FTP,SMTP,IRC and P2P protocols - server-side
software is a Microsoft IIS Web server Isapi extension that is available on
request
WARNING :
*
Microsoft WINDOWS plateforms ONLY - Vista excepted (sorry for Mac users)
* Even if
Nestor replaces InternetExplorer, you have to install IE because Nestor uses IE
engine.
There is a version of Nestor which runs with IE4 and another version runs
with IE5, IE6 or IE7. Check your IE version before downloading
* Nestor was NOT designed to draw maps of full web sites
(although it does it). It draws what YOU have
explored.* Nestor has been designed for 1024x768 screen
definition (it works on 800x600 but it means more window management !).
1600x1200 is excellent !
Current research and future improvements / Les recherches en
cours et les améliorations
futures
* Facilitating knowledge
construction in Web exploration activities :
July 2005 : In most information search tasks users have
to shift from a Web-experience-representation to a
Knowledge-representation. We think that Web browsers should facilitate this process -
or rather mediate it . Let us call this process :
Recomposition = progressing from experience to abstraction
through de-construction of documents ,
re-construction and re-presentation.
Most features in
Nestor are targeted at this: including handling multiple views,
incorporating structuring objects (such as associations, grids
and others ), allowing flexible hybrid representations , and co-constructing shared representations (see an
example of re-composition : http://www.projeto.org.br/hawaii/indextutorials.htm by
A. Okada from Ed-Media 2003 information)
* Other improvements : March 2006 : Nestor hybrid maps (a mix of navigation and concept maps) will
soon have NEW structuring objects : lists, page sets ....
More information / Pour
en savoir
plus
(in French) Présentation
de Nestor
(in French) Comment
tisser votre "Fil d' Ariane" sur le Web
(Territorial.fr)
(in french) Une cartographie
raisonnée du Web avec Nestor by J.F.Nominé (Captain Doc)
A discussion
of Nestor approach : papers
see also : http://cade.athabascau.ca/vol14.1/belisle.html
Research papers
published about Nestor.
Nestor community Web site.
(in french) Le navigateur qui aide les navigateurs
A description of Nestor main features
How to make a
standard demo.
Reference manual : Nestor online help
Relevant links / Des
liens
intéressants
Concept mapping tools : see IHMC CMap tools
GlobalArgument.net : Un lien intéressant ...
Visualizing Argumentation: Software Tools for
Collaborative and Educational Sense-Making
: see Visualizing Internetworked Argumentation
Knowledge Media Institute ,
Open University,
UK
The Compendium Institute
"Navigation and ownership for learning in electronic text" by Ursula Armitage.(EJEL Electronic Journal of E-Learning ) December 2004.
(in french) Des TIC pour apprendre : repères pour une
intégration
, par Monique Linard, Le Café
Pédagogique
An evaluation of Nestor
by Kristina Schneider, Concordia University.
L. Okada's personal account of the Ed-Media 2003
conference :
http://www.projeto.org.br/hawaii/ (including http://www.projeto.org.br/hawaii/indextutorial1.htm on "authentic activities" )
Mind tools Resource
by Gary Lewallen , Arozona State University.
Six constructivist principles proposed by Tom Boyle (Design for Multimedia
Learning, Prentice Hall, London):
http://www.unl.ac.uk/simt/aim/boyle/tombook.htm
Achieving
self-organisation in network-based learning environments by J.N.
Dron
"....The Nestor system (
http://www.gate.cnrs.fr/~zeiliger/nestor./nestor.htm) is
a client-side tool that extends the bookmarking functionality of Microsoft's
Internet Explorer browser. It does so by graphically representing the paths that
a user takes from one page to the next, drawing links as and when they arise and
making connections where appropriate. Users may heavily customise and annotate
these maps using symbols and text, leading to what looks rather like a mind map.
A particular beauty of the system is that these maps may be shared with others
and combined, although visual annotations are lost in the process. Users can
navigate sites together and make use of a built-in IRC real-time chat client to
discuss what they find there. Not only that, but there is also a collaborative
annotation tool for sites visited, which uses FTP and/or file server protocols
to store its annotations, which are group oriented so that only those with whom
a user wishes to share annotations will see them. Although Nestor's only
significantly emergent feature is the ability to combine maps, it represents an
attitude to collaboration and virtual presence which extends the concept of
community-building far beyond the simple chat, forum and email systems which
currently dominate the available communications tools available on the
Internet...."
Participatory
Design
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