Thing 4

Responding to:   Blog Thing 4

1. What do you think of the idea of Course Map?  
2. How does it compare with any other representations you have of your course?
3. Filling out your own course map, did you find it illuminating or frustrating?  Are there any ways you would change it to better reflect what you do? 
4. In what ways do you see this being useful to you as a course designer?

1 and 2. The map resemples a computer flowchart.  As such it tacitly invites students to approach their course of studies as a digitally compartimentalized entity, rather than as a place for serious, "organic" thinking.  For courses spilling out of any mechanistic network of instruction, I see no reason to abandon the prose-style of a more traditional Course Outline.
3.  "Frustrating" in the respect that genuine learning resists digitalizing/marketing devices, just as an honest course of learning discourages the habit of approaching subjects of learning piecemeal as merchandise. 
4. After considerable thought: None.

P.S. I would have pasted my personalized "Map" if only I knew how to.  Tried to save it first as a "Picture" but could not find the precise option (I am given the option of saving the powerpoint as GIF, JPEG, TIFF, etc. but none are accepted).
UPDATE: Finally managed to upload a sample Course Map (for whatever it is worth).