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"Evidence shows that engaged students perform better academically than disinterested students. Measurement of engagement with education is difficult and imprecise, especially in large student cohorts. Traditional measurements such as summary statistics derived from assessment are crude secondary measures of engagement at best and do not provide much support for educators to work with students and curate engagement during teaching periods. We have used academic-related student contributions to a public social network as a proxy for engagement. Statistical summaries and novel data visualisation tools provide subtle and powerful insights into online student peer networks. Analysis of data collected shows that network visualisation can be an important curation tool for educators interested in cultivating student engagement."

"Here on the Guardian's data team, we've wanted to help you visualise our data and create new viz styles for a long time. And now, thanks to some great work by the Guardian's Interactive team, that dream has moved one step closer. This week, developers Alastair Dant and Alex Graul launched the first part of the Miso project. In this piece, Alex explains it is a "Set of Open Source tools designed to make it faster and easier to create high quality interactive and data visualization content""

Visualise a musical mash-up. Rendered in html5 & css3. See also background at http://themaninblue.com/writing/perspective/2011/05/12/

Interesting visualisation of your twitter and related memes

Twitter visualisation of the network of the Boston bomber. Interesting comment on harassment, privacy, publicness, etc.

Incredible visualisation of the power of metadata and our digital footprint / slimetrail.  Zoom in at times to see the level of detail that triangulated phone masts give for location.

Quick post on the social sharing of OER resources.

For anyone data minded, a recipe for making Tony Hirsts connection clouds.

Very cool visualisation of realtime edits in wikipedia. Checkout http://inkdroid.org for more.

Lots of ways of charting and visualising data.

Interesting wiki debate visualisation tool.

Search and visualise Twitter connections by username or keyword search.

The Action Mapping diagram could be a useful way to visualise learning design and move the focus to activity and situate content on the periphery.

Serious games / gamification. This is an interesting model built around personal health. The 'See how it works' link gives a handy diagram to visualise the structure in applying game theory.

Retrospective analysis of existing curriculum according to an activity taxonomy

Map your twitter connections.

Research looking at whether students tagging resources they create will help them in identifying learning.

"SNAPP is a software tool that allows users to visualize the network of interactions resulting from discussion forum posts and replies."

"Gephi is an interactive visualization and exploration platform for all kinds of networks and complex systems, dynamic and hierarchical graphs.Runs on Windows, Linux and Mac OS X. Gephi is open-source and free"