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Inspired in part by a conversation from the Information Literacy Summit last week, and in part by this post from the awesome David Silver, we made tag clouds in my class this morning. U-Engage is a first-year experience class, providing an introduction to what a research university is in general and to OSU in particular. [...]
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This is mostly an excuse to post cute dog pictures – not my cute dog but cute dogs nonetheless – but something I find very interesting – in an I think this thing is awesome to think about but it’s only tangentially related to most of what I do and it would take a lot [...]
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So I’ve spent a lot of time in the last year talking about how we need to understand what peer review really is. Most of that time it leads to posts about the limitations of the system. Today, not so much. I keep going back and forth about whether to write this this morning because [...]
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Meet Dinah –
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Last spring, I talked about showing a news visualizer from MSNBC called Spectra to a group of advanced composition students. And I talked about how none of the students chose to use that tool when they got to the hands-on portion of the class. I thought about that again this morning because three sections of [...]
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So remember that the New York Times visualizations are awesome? And that the dynamic web has made election-watching, particularly crazy-obsessive election-watching, a very different thing than it was a while ago? You might think that I am going to be one of many to say the NYT election map is great. It is, but I’m [...]
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