I had my first experience of a flash-mob last night. My daughter had received a forwarded text message (SMS) advising that a bunch of people might well be meeting up on the steps of St Paul’s Cathedral in London for a short dance party at precisely 6.46pm. I tagged along and arriving a few minutes [...]
Social networking mashup
July 20th, 2007 · No Comments · learning, society, technology
Tags:connectivism·network·Web 2.0
Visualisation as a means of coping with, and making sense of, data overload
April 25th, 2007 · No Comments · learning
In “Patterns and sense-making: information visualisation”, George Siemens proposes a variety of strategies to create visual representations of data to help us, essentially, get our heads around the big picture by spotting relationships, trends and connections before getting into the finer and statistical details. It isn’t about oversimplifying complex issues, it is about giving the [...]