Data Visualization
For the data visualization lab I tried out several of the website that were listed on Karl Drude's wikispace. I had wanted to try out Glogster and this gave me a good reason. I made a Glogster out of several videos on mitosis that I like students to watch. It is nice to put all the links together in one place and have the videos easily accessible rather than multiple links for them to click on. I know I will be using this in the next week in class. I can see lots of uses for Glogster and I like that there is a teacher friendly way to manage classes and students.
I have used word clouds before but I have always used Wordle and so I decided to give Tagxedo a try. I really like how I just copied the link to my blog spot into Tagxedo and it created a word cloud from my blog - very cool. I like to use these to introduce topics to students. I give them the word cloud and have them write sentences inferring main ideas. I think you can infer alot about me by seeing the word cloud from my blog postings.
I also checked out other sites like Gapminder. I was very impressed with the infographs that were available on the site. I love using infographics and need to realize I can utilize them for many things I teach. I would love to have students create a Glogster during 2nd semester. When we study genetic diseases they would look up statistics about certain genetic diseases and create a glogster on a genetic disease and include and graph of data about the disease. I also had no idea Google had that much public data graphed. Those will definitely be great to use when we talk about population and Earth's carrying capacity in Biology class and I can also pass them on to our social studies department.
I also checked out other sites like Gapminder. I was very impressed with the infographs that were available on the site. I love using infographics and need to realize I can utilize them for many things I teach. I would love to have students create a Glogster during 2nd semester. When we study genetic diseases they would look up statistics about certain genetic diseases and create a glogster on a genetic disease and include and graph of data about the disease. I also had no idea Google had that much public data graphed. Those will definitely be great to use when we talk about population and Earth's carrying capacity in Biology class and I can also pass them on to our social studies department.
Glogster seems to have matured since I was first introduced to it. It is that or MAET students just know how to work it better than other folks. ^o^
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