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Dana Longley

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shared by Dana Longley on 29 Jun 09 - Cached
  • Dana Longley on 29 Jun 09
     
    micro-forum type application for your website. It pulls your Twitter stream in near real-time (max 1 min delay), reformatting tweets into threaded conversations with unlimited nesting. Possible tool for integration into LMS platforms?
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Stacking the Tech | Twitter and the Visual Dataverse - 1/7/2010 - Library Journal - 0 views

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  • 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

Using Twitter as an Education Tool - 1 views

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shared by Dana Longley on 22 Jun 09 - Cached
  • Dana Longley on 22 Jun 09
     
    article from Search Engine Watch
  • Dana Longley on 22 Jun 09
     
    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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