looking into this tool make you see it as an art, and enjoying your time reading this visualizations. It kinda remind me by the camera zoom, when you find something interested you will zoom in to present it clearly and make every one notice it.
with the reading of the information visualizations article, I came to realize that the simple usefulness of this tool is to communicate and manipulate complex information. for example, historical, statistical and literary texts. It will make it easier to understand, analyze and view the text. instead of using power point or paper work to combine theses different texts or information without making yourself and your students to feel lost. my question here are we consider it as An tool to teach or some kind of arts?
I am thinking of applying this tool to teach novels. So I might look into the historical issues of any novel, and combine it with the analyzing of the character, themes, plot. It seems interesting to use, and will caught students attention. additionally, it will make me as a teacher more organized. However, I am not sure yet of I can use it to any kind of novel to teach students. what is the benefit they will gain by using this tool, as literature students.
Today wisdom,
When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don’t adjust the goals, adjust the action steps.”
Confucius
I agree that visualization technology is great for navigating complex or linguistically dense information. I’m a big fan of the “macro lens” that visualization tools provids; I find it a helpful complement to strategies like close reading.
Hello Cara,
Yeah sure it makes us go beyond the text we already have in front of us. It make it easier for researcher or scholars to analysis and discover things were not clear in the first glance.
thanks Cara 🙂