Hi,
If you want some more explanations of the visualizations, here are some videos. The video of the parallel coordinates explains an older version of the visualization. The latest version supports re-arrangment of the axes by using drag and drop and you can visualize a histogram on top of the axes to get a better idea of the real distributions.
Sorry, but I do not seem to be able to embed the videos in the forum, so I just post the urls to the videos...
Explaining the statistics window:
http://www.screencast.com/t/MTZhMWU1
Discussing the line chart:
http://www.screencast.com/t/YTQ0NThh
...and the parallel coordinates:
http://www.screencast.com/t/ZTNkZWIwO
Finishing off with the bar chart:
http://www.screencast.com/t/ZDdjY2UyYm
Both the "coverflow" at the bottom and the tag cloud in the recommendations panel show the same data. Namely the resources on which the most time was spent. In the future we want to improve this and provide some different way of visualizing the top resources together with some added visual things, e.g. sparklines.
Any feedback, ideas and questions are of course very welcome!
Sten
Thanks. I like this widget and would use it in some circumstances. I would like it even more if you could add time spent elsewhere - a bit like the Wii-fit gives you an option to count exercise not done on the Wii. I've grabbed a lot of files for this course and then worked offline, blogged, added chunks to VUE-map etc. I guess my working style is not even remotely unusual so to use the widget the teacher/student/administrator needs the 'health warnings' and the wider context.
Sten, thanks for your help and the technical support.
I usually do not sign into the moodle forum. The guest status is faster and more appropriate for me. It corresponds to the just-in-time-learning.
I usually do not sign into the moodle forum. The guest status is faster and more appropriate for me. It corresponds to the just-in-time-learning.
Sten Govaerts wrote,
videos.
Via Vanessa Vaile, who noted,
videos are not optimum choice for those on dial-up. ironically, open access courses like this underscore the digital divide,
You mean digital divide or gap in participation?
both ~ intensive use of apps that are bandwidth hogs is bound to contribute to participation gaps among users with access limitations
Sten,
Thanks for the cool data visualizing! I wonder how useful will Prof. Siemens find from these visual diagram.
Su-Tuan
Thanks for the cool data visualizing! I wonder how useful will Prof. Siemens find from these visual diagram.
Su-Tuan