- Confessions of an Aca/Fan: Archives: When Dora the Explorer Met INS: Playing with Popular Icons – semiotic resources from pop culture – (none)
- Bringing Down the Imperial Walker, and Other Protest Signs – semiotics moves to wisconsin – (semiotics liberation )
- Culinaut: A simple (visual) guide to eggs – chickens. eggs. breakfast. – (vizualization poultry )
Tag Archives: vizualization
bookmarks for February 16th, 2011 through February 17th, 2011
- Here is a project: Troll! Data! Analysis! « Here is a thing. – visual analysis of trolling. use of many eyes – (vizualization erhetoric )
- #CCK11 gRSShopper vs Moodle – Any thoughts? « eConnections – Short reflection from a participant in CCK11 on bounded forum v open/PLE. Lots of openings into a further consideration here. Lars has found the CMS an anchor, a place where things are structured for him – which is echoed in the comments. Valid point for traditional learning, which doesn't consider the learner cutting the path. – (en3177 PLE MOOC reflection )
bookmarks for January 16th, 2011 through January 17th, 2011
- Fortune favors the bold and the italicized – A little upset here on the visual side: designing texts for difficult reading: "disfluency – the subjective experience of difficulty associated with cognitive operations – leads to deeper processing … Study 1 found that information in hard-to-read fonts was better remembered than easier to read information in a controlled laboratory setting. Study 2 extended this finding to high school classrooms. The results suggest that superficial changes to learning materials could yield significant improvements in educational outcomes." – (reading vizualization visualdesign design )
- Fitzpatrick – The Pleasure of the Blog: The Early Novel, the Serial, and the Narrative Archive – Nifty thesis:" "All blogs, for Himmer, are in some sense literary, because of the nature of their readers’ interactions with them. … Such a claim begins to suggest that the reasons we read blogs may be slightly different than we have often imagined; through this understanding, blogs offer not simply a voyeuristic peek into someone else’s life — though, obviously, that numbers among their pleasures, too — but they also offer a form of writing that engages the reader by requiring her not simply to consume the content presented but also, in some sense, to produce that content, to complete what is present through a knowledge of what is past, an exploration of the ways that that present is situated, and a commitment to return in the future." – (blogging identity genre narrative reading )
- [toread] Genre Under Construction: The Diary on the Internet — Language@Internet – Laurie McNeill – (diary en3177 weblogs journal private_and_pubic )
bookmarks for January 13th, 2011 through January 15th, 2011
- Will #Quora Be Big In 2011? – a good article for en3177, in part for the subject of discussion but even more for the aggregatating and repurposing the writer's doing. trace the inputs and outputs and diagram how he links it all together. this is learning. – (en3177 twitter quora mooc ple synthesis )
- Should I Work for Free? – flowchart. but it's not about the flow. it's about the players. illustrates how to play with genres. – (vizualization argument persuasion )
- At Netroots UK, British progressives plant seeds for future online struggles – Students organize around and by using social media in the field and after. Sarcasim, demonstrations, Guardian columnists, and blogging. – (en3177 protests social_media )
- Writer’s Guide to Twitter – – (en3177 twitter writing )