This is the second part in a three part series. The second part can be found here. The third part can be found here.
Hello, I'm James Tolley. I'm the founder of Shared Reality and this video is meant to show you a demo of the editing features of Shared Reality Argument Maps.
So here I am I'm logged in as my user and I am on the account page and I can click "Create a new argument map" and I'm brought to a form - no big surprise there - to create an argument map.So I'm just going to create an argument map that's called Test Map. The title will be shown with the thumbnail image you select (see below) on the homepage in the "latest argument maps" section once published, and if featured it will be shown in that section as well.
If you have the adequate features then you can choose to make this a featured map (if you want to). The "Open to the public" field controls whether the argument map itself should be shown to the public or whether it should be shown as "under construction", and since the argument map is just going to be very, very minimal at this point, I'm going to keep it closed until it's filled out in a way that would be helpful for people to see.The "Voting status" field is "Closed". Voting is a feature where, once an argument map is mature enough then we can ask an entire community - say, climate scientists or lawyers, ex-federal prosecutors, economists, or thought leaders and members of a community that knows the most among us on a topic - to come in and let us know what they think about that topic. The votes mean: what do you agree with? What do you disagree with? And how relevant do you think it is to the conversation?
The reason for that is that, for example, "97 percent of climate scientists believe X" / "No they don't" - that's a power struggle. The only way to know that is actually to have a structured productive conversation where we actually ask them. So, that's the point of that feature. But, for now this argument map is just too simple it's not filled out at all so there's no point in inviting anyone to come and vote on the nodes.
The tags are, you know, standard tags.
For a video, I could have a video URL to a YouTube video or a video hosted on the Vimeo platform. For the description, we have some introductory text. There, I can also use different text formats depending on my my permissions, and the text formats basically allow me to use either plain text, which would be the least feature-rich text format option, some basic HTML, like links and things like that, or full HTML. Right now, I'm going to use full HTML because that's the option of my user account. The description is important, it will help people to understand what is being discussed, or debated, before they look at the map itself. Finally, the image button at the bottom creates a thumbnail for the map. This, along with the title, will be the first thing people see. It will help them to decide whether to click through and view the description and the map itself.So I can go to the image library and upload or select an already-uploaded image. I'll just select a "flat earth" image as the image, for now.
Once I have done that, and clicked "Save" on the map form, I have created the map but it's not yet published.
I can see the confirmation that it was created, and you can see there's a there's a link right here to publish it.
When I'm ready, I can click that link. But, right now the map is still under construction so there's no point in showing anyone even this page. If I were to click the "Publish" link, this page would be visible. The argument map would be displayed on the homepage, with the "flat earth" image thumbnail. And when people clicked on that, people would be able to see this page. They still would not be able to see the argument map, however, which will only have the initial claim, taken from the form title. Because we chose not to make it public, they would only see this "under construction" message, not the argument map itself, in this rectangle.Next, I can just go ahead and edit the map - we will cover that in Part II.