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Stacking the Tech | Twitter and the Visual Dataverse - 1/7/2010 - Library Journal - 0 views

  • As weary as I and others might be of the breathless microblogging-as-miracle media narrative,
  • And yet, I still think that at its core Twitter is simply right now’s next big thing, sure to be knocked off its pedestal by Google Wave or something else sooner or later. Moreover, it is following the predictable tech startup arc almost perfectly: Stage 1. Confusing blog buzz  Stage 2. Reactionary doomcrying about whatyouhadforbreakfast status updates Stage 3. Noticed by NPR, which flogs it to death Stage 4. Takes off in a big way Stage 5. Creators sell for billions or arrange an IPO (this is where we are currently) Stage 6. Finally, either A) relative stability (Facebook) or B) meteoric decline (MySpace)
  • Data visualization is the practice of summarizing vast amounts of information in graphical form. For a quick primer on the subject, see the examples at Information Aesthetics and the Periodic Table of Visualization Methods, or watch Gapminder creator Hans Rosling demonstrate the “beauty of statistics” in his TED presentation on global health.
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  • After eons of being relegated to the nerdiverse, this is the year in which visualization tools finally made statistics sexy.
  • What started with the simple folksonomic word cloud has become something resembling a hurricane—from hilarious online dating analytics on OKCupid to textual visualizers like Wordle to en suite graphical tools in Digg and Delicious, visualization has finally gone viral
  • Twitter stands out because its simple, location-based transparency and relentless immediacy lend themselves perfectly to visualization—tweets come on so fast and furious that they are almost impossible to follow, making graphical summaries of user-generated content extremely useful.
  • Twitter visualization apps also allow users to chart their own statistics, taking the proverbial web-based navel-gazing to new depths
  • The rising popularity of visualization affects how people engage with our stock and trade: information. When data becomes prettier to look at, not only does it become more comprehensible,
Dana Longley

Alternate Reality Games and Information Literacy - 0 views

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    from Hidden Peanuts blog
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    crazy idea?: create a SUNY-wide alternate reality game that invites students from all over SUNY to collaborate to solve a complex mystery or puzzle of some kind and that involves using a variety of library and scholarly resources. Maybe even provide a forum for students to communicate and collaborate. If solved, SUNY libraries, for example, could donate books or other resources to some charity or cause?
Dana Longley

Glogster: Education - 0 views

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    possible tool 4 info lit instr via creative, reflective, multimedia research topic posters?
Dana Longley

Poll Everywhere - 0 views

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    Possible cheap alternative to clicker system?
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    Text Message (SMS) Polls and Voting, Audience Response System. Free plan up to 30 respondents.
Dana Longley

Show Document - 0 views

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    Free file sharing and net meeting. No download req'd & includes doc & browser share, text editor and whiteboard.
Dana Longley

Higher Education in a Web 2.0 World : JISC - 0 views

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    inquiry into the strategic and policy implications for higher education of the experience and expectations of learners in the light of their increasing use of the newest technologies.
Dana Longley

Prezi - 0 views

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    zooming presentation editor
Dana Longley

Free Software for Learning Object Development - 0 views

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    from: lauren's library blog
Dana Longley

Today's Meet - 0 views

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    helps you embrace the backchannel and connect with your audience in realtime. Encourage the room to use the live stream to make comments, ask questions, and use that feedback to tailor your presentation, sharpen your points, and address audience needs.
Dana Longley

Digital Literacy - 0 views

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    interactive tutorial with self-quizzes on digital literacy
Dana Longley

Using Twitter as an Education Tool - 1 views

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    article from Search Engine Watch
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    Here is one idea for using twitter, perhaps in collab with a history or writing or acting faculty member: have students role play people from a specific event (e.g., Watergate from the eyes of several key players) or set of circumstances (e.g., ppl from different backgrounds observing a lynching, etc.). Each student is assigned (or picks) a different "character" and then is responsible for researching that event or issue and or person and to create realistic tweets that they imagine their character might be observing or thinking about during the event or about the issue. You could then also assign a reflective essay for them to think about how the process of emerging themselves in the persona and interacting with the other characters effected their perspective (or just do a simpler assignment where they reflect on their research process).
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