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This Is What Learning Looks Like: Using Analytic Tools to Visualise Classroom Twitter Conversations Sharon Stoerger Online Educa Berlin Thursday, Dec. 1, 2011 [email protected]

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This Is What Learning Looks Like:

Using Analytic Tools to Visualise Classroom Twitter

Conversations

Sharon Stoerger

Online Educa Berlin

Thursday, Dec. 1, 2011

[email protected]

Agenda• Twitter

• Information Visualisation

• Twitter +Infovis = TwInfoVis

• Visualising Learning

• The Future

What is Twitter?http://twitter.com

• Microblogging

• Easy-to-use

• Communication

• Broadcast

• Backchannel

• Relationships

Does tweeting feel like this?

VISUAL REPRESENTATION

What is information visualisation?

• Functions (Bertin, 1983)

• Communicate information

• Process information

• Record information

• It is not…

• Just about numbers

• Dry and boring

Q: WHY SHOULD I VISUALISE?

The world is complex, dynamic, multidimensional; the paper is static, flat. How are we to represent the rich visual world of experience and measurement on mere flatland?

-Edward Tufte (1990)

Not New – Chauvet Caves

Sensing Flowers

• Data…the new soil? (McCandless, 2010)

• The language of the eye (Norretranders, 1999)

• Vision > other senses (Medina, 2008)

http://www.brainrules.net/vision/?scene=2

Today?

~50M tweets per

day!

When I tweet [paint], my object is to show what I have found and not what I am looking for.

-Picasso

Twitter Information Visualisation (TwInfoVis)

• Communication Visualisation

• Data Visualisation

• Statistical Visualisations

• Map & Geographic Visualisations

• Social Network Visualisations

COMMUNICATION VISUALISATIONS

Tweet Topic Explorerhttp://tweettopicexplorer.neoformix.com

Twitterfallhttp://twitterfall.com/

DATA VISUALISATIONS

Word & Text CloudsWordle, Tagxedo, Many Eyes

Portwiturehttp://portwiture.com/

STATISTICAL VISUALISATIONS

TweetStatshttp://tweetstats.com/

The Archivisthttp://archivist.visitmix.com/

MAP & GEOGRAPHICAL VISUALISATIONS

Trendsmaphttp://trendsmap.com/

• “A real-time mapping of Twitter trends across the world.”

Truthyhttp://truthy.indiana.edu/

SOCIAL NETWORK VISUALISATIONS

Twitter Friends Network Browserhttp://www.neuroproductions.be/twitter_friends_network_browser/

Revisithttp://moritz.stefaner.eu/projects/revisit/

Visualisation Visual Literacy

• Capture discussions graphically

• Present & interact visually

• Show relationships

• Analyze visualisation tools (Manovich, 2008)

• See the story beneath the surface

Concerns? Information First!

What’s Next? A Visualisation

“Explosion”

Thank You!!!

Sharon Stoerger

Email: [email protected]

Twitter: @csoleil

More Information:

http://socialinfovis.wikispaces.com/