Visualization

Draft

Definition

The idea is to use a graphical representation to represent an information space, e.g. a complex concept, a WebSite or parts of the Web as a whole, user activities ....

DSchneider doesn't know if we should split this up like for example the Wikipedia:Visualization article (and add multimedia animations which are not necessarily the same as what they call Wikipedia: Knowledge visualization).

Visualization in education

Here is (quick) some brainstorming regarding different areas:

• To organize complex information spaces (a good example is the visualization of this wiki.

• To map out concepts and relations with some kind of graph semantic map [e.g. Wikipedia: Mind map Wikipedia: Concept Map

• To display social webs and show what people do

• To display complex (subject) data, i.e. students use a real tool

• To organize & moderate group or class discussion (e.g. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5]) writable tables or other devices

Learners, can either use or build visualizations (or both of course). We shall put some emphasis on building of course ...

Technology

• Various concept maps (e.g. mind maps)
• Topic maps
• Tree maps and pyramid maps
• Fractal maps

Links

http://tecfaseed.unige.ch/staf18/modules.php?op=modload&name=Web_Links&file=index&req=viewlink&cid=2