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Damian Gordon and Deirdre Lawless from the School of Computing at Dublin Institute of Technology discuss the concept of tag clouds and their importance in visualizing word content in documents.
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Getting Our Heads out of the Clouds Damian Gordon Deirdre LawlessSchool of ComputingDublin Institute of Technology
Tag Cloud • A tag cloud is a visual depiction of the word content of a document, the importance of a tag is shown with font size.
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Process People Technology Knowledge Management
Process Source: Bhatt, 2001 20% People Technology 70% 10% Knowledge Management
eLearning Web 2.0 Universal Design Web 2.0
Web 2.0 • There are some reasonably well explored technologies under the “Web 2.0” umbrella that are used in education…
Web 2.0 • But are we missing out on opportunities with other technologies??
Suggestion • Despite your most incredible efforts during lectures, despite your penetrating insights, your profound reflections and your fundamental appreciation of a topic… • …for some students the first time they look at your PowerPoint slides will be the night before their exam… • …so we better make sure that our lecture notes send the ‘right’ messages… • …because sometimes it’s hard to keep an eye on the marco- when writing the micro-
Dataset MSc in Computing (Knowledge Management)Research Methods and Proposal Writing