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I thought of this one just after posting that last blog about visualizations. I discovered it yesterday, and it is so powerful, I decided to post it as a separate blog entry. Phrase Net appears to be a new addition to the very powerful (and sometimes ornery) IBM Many Eyes project, which features a wide range of data visualization tools.
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Phrase Net acts like a tag cloud, accenting words through size and color based on their frequency of use. But it also connects those word to each other based on the connect that you choose. The arrangement to the right is based on “and” as the connector. Changing the connector to “at” produces the arrangement on the left. Click the image for an enlargement.
Again, this is another way of examining information in a time when there is simply too much information to read.
Tags: warlick, literacy, visualization, elearning
David,
First, let me tell you that I love your blog, and I check it frequently. You have given me valuable information and shared your progressive thoughts and ideas that I appreciate.
One of such instances is today’s entry about Phrase Net. Both as a very visual person/learner and a language teacher, I can appreciate this tool. Actually, I am not teaching this year – I have become a full-time doctoral student in a College of education. And not until I began taking educational technology courses in this program did I realize how vast the amount of technology and Web 2.0 tools is out there that teachers on all levels, and in all content areas, can use, and for free! This is mind-bugling; I keep wishing in a way that I were still teaching high school Spanish, and had all these tools at my disposal.
Thank you for doing what you are doing, with the blog and everything else in which you are involved. I will keep following your blog, so keep it coming!