Comments on: Looking for a way to make those text-driven, page-turning e-learning courses more challenging? http://janetclarey.com/2008/01/09/480/ Spinning the Social Web Thu, 17 May 2012 05:40:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Janet Clarey http://janetclarey.com/2008/01/09/480/comment-page-1/#comment-2641 Janet Clarey Tue, 15 Jan 2008 15:33:16 +0000 http://janetclarey.com/?p=480#comment-2641 Good points Emma. I think many of these aggregation tools could be seen as limiting. I'm revisitng josie's post...thanks for passing that along. Good points Emma. I think many of these aggregation tools could be seen as limiting. I’m revisitng josie’s post…thanks for passing that along.

]]> By: Janet Clarey http://janetclarey.com/2008/01/09/480/comment-page-1/#comment-4986 Janet Clarey Tue, 15 Jan 2008 15:33:00 +0000 http://janetclarey.com/?p=480#comment-4986 Good points Emma. I think many of these aggregation tools could be seen as limiting. I'm revisitng josie's post...thanks for passing that along. Good points Emma. I think many of these aggregation tools could be seen as limiting. I’m revisitng josie’s post…thanks for passing that along.

]]> By: Emma http://janetclarey.com/2008/01/09/480/comment-page-1/#comment-2640 Emma Tue, 15 Jan 2008 15:26:12 +0000 http://janetclarey.com/?p=480#comment-2640 From an accessibility point of view, I also wonder if people with cognitive difficulties might find it very hard to spot the smaller words. Perhaps it's just me, but I'm not really that keen on tag clouds. I find that, by their very nature, my eyes are drawn to the biggest words, which tends to make me concentrate on those. However, the smaller ones could be of equal (or even greater!) interest. One of the things that I've read several times as a critique of Web2.0 is the ease of identifying with a group of people that have similar interests to you. Clearly at times that's what you want, however, there is the drawback that it could mean that it's not allowing you to have a broader set of contacts. I guess it's getting back to the discussion on Homphily that was going on at the start of the academic year (October, for those in the Southern Hemisphere). http://fraser.typepad.com/socialtech/2007/10/homophily.html Perhaps it's just me; I feel that I _ought_ to have a tag cloud on my blog, because others do, and they expect them. (I guess I could use the accessibility point, but not sure that it would really work, and as I have links to all my categories, then it could be argued that providing a tag cloud as well allows different users the option to select what suits them best). From an accessibility point of view, I also wonder if people with cognitive difficulties might find it very hard to spot the smaller words. Perhaps it’s just me, but I’m not really that keen on tag clouds. I find that, by their very nature, my eyes are drawn to the biggest words, which tends to make me concentrate on those.
However, the smaller ones could be of equal (or even greater!) interest.

One of the things that I’ve read several times as a critique of Web2.0 is the ease of identifying with a group of people that have similar interests to you. Clearly at times that’s what you want, however, there is the drawback that it could mean that it’s not allowing you to have a broader set of contacts.
I guess it’s getting back to the discussion on Homphily that was going on at the start of the academic year (October, for those in the Southern Hemisphere). http://fraser.typepad.com/socialtech/2007/10/homophily.html

Perhaps it’s just me; I feel that I _ought_ to have a tag cloud on my blog, because others do, and they expect them.

(I guess I could use the accessibility point, but not sure that it would really work, and as I have links to all my categories, then it could be argued that providing a tag cloud as well allows different users the option to select what suits them best).

]]> By: Emma http://janetclarey.com/2008/01/09/480/comment-page-1/#comment-4985 Emma Tue, 15 Jan 2008 15:26:00 +0000 http://janetclarey.com/?p=480#comment-4985 From an accessibility point of view, I also wonder if people with cognitive difficulties might find it very hard to spot the smaller words. Perhaps it's just me, but I'm not really that keen on tag clouds. I find that, by their very nature, my eyes are drawn to the biggest words, which tends to make me concentrate on those. However, the smaller ones could be of equal (or even greater!) interest. One of the things that I've read several times as a critique of Web2.0 is the ease of identifying with a group of people that have similar interests to you. Clearly at times that's what you want, however, there is the drawback that it could mean that it's not allowing you to have a broader set of contacts. I guess it's getting back to the discussion on Homphily that was going on at the start of the academic year (October, for those in the Southern Hemisphere). http://fraser.typepad.com/socialtech/2007/10/homophily.html Perhaps it's just me; I feel that I _ought_ to have a tag cloud on my blog, because others do, and they expect them. (I guess I could use the accessibility point, but not sure that it would really work, and as I have links to all my categories, then it could be argued that providing a tag cloud as well allows different users the option to select what suits them best). From an accessibility point of view, I also wonder if people with cognitive difficulties might find it very hard to spot the smaller words. Perhaps it’s just me, but I’m not really that keen on tag clouds. I find that, by their very nature, my eyes are drawn to the biggest words, which tends to make me concentrate on those.
However, the smaller ones could be of equal (or even greater!) interest.

One of the things that I’ve read several times as a critique of Web2.0 is the ease of identifying with a group of people that have similar interests to you. Clearly at times that’s what you want, however, there is the drawback that it could mean that it’s not allowing you to have a broader set of contacts.
I guess it’s getting back to the discussion on Homphily that was going on at the start of the academic year (October, for those in the Southern Hemisphere). http://fraser.typepad.com/socialtech/2007/10/homophily.html

Perhaps it’s just me; I feel that I _ought_ to have a tag cloud on my blog, because others do, and they expect them.

(I guess I could use the accessibility point, but not sure that it would really work, and as I have links to all my categories, then it could be argued that providing a tag cloud as well allows different users the option to select what suits them best).

]]> By: Carri Saari http://janetclarey.com/2008/01/09/480/comment-page-1/#comment-2639 Carri Saari Thu, 10 Jan 2008 14:00:19 +0000 http://janetclarey.com/?p=480#comment-2639 This would be a great homepage tool for an online course in Blackboard. Students wouldn't have to dig through learning modules to find something referenced during lecture. I'll have to play with the HTML code generated by TagCrowd.com to see if it works after adding href's within the LMS. Thanks for the new gadget to play with! This would be a great homepage tool for an online course in Blackboard. Students wouldn’t have to dig through learning modules to find something referenced during lecture.

I’ll have to play with the HTML code generated by TagCrowd.com to see if it works after adding href’s within the LMS.

Thanks for the new gadget to play with!

]]> By: Carri Saari http://janetclarey.com/2008/01/09/480/comment-page-1/#comment-4984 Carri Saari Thu, 10 Jan 2008 14:00:00 +0000 http://janetclarey.com/?p=480#comment-4984 This would be a great homepage tool for an online course in Blackboard. Students wouldn't have to dig through learning modules to find something referenced during lecture. I'll have to play with the HTML code generated by TagCrowd.com to see if it works after adding href's within the LMS. Thanks for the new gadget to play with! This would be a great homepage tool for an online course in Blackboard. Students wouldn’t have to dig through learning modules to find something referenced during lecture.

I’ll have to play with the HTML code generated by TagCrowd.com to see if it works after adding href’s within the LMS.

Thanks for the new gadget to play with!

]]> By: Janet Clarey http://janetclarey.com/2008/01/09/480/comment-page-1/#comment-2638 Janet Clarey Thu, 10 Jan 2008 13:16:28 +0000 http://janetclarey.com/?p=480#comment-2638 Yes, very true. Accessibility issues could be problematic. Perhaps a touch screen... Yes, very true. Accessibility issues could be problematic. Perhaps a touch screen…

]]> By: Janet Clarey http://janetclarey.com/2008/01/09/480/comment-page-1/#comment-4983 Janet Clarey Thu, 10 Jan 2008 13:16:00 +0000 http://janetclarey.com/?p=480#comment-4983 Yes, very true. Accessibility issues could be problematic. Perhaps a touch screen... Yes, very true. Accessibility issues could be problematic. Perhaps a touch screen…

]]> By: Karyn Romeis http://janetclarey.com/2008/01/09/480/comment-page-1/#comment-2637 Karyn Romeis Thu, 10 Jan 2008 10:05:25 +0000 http://janetclarey.com/?p=480#comment-2637 It might be an idea to link the words in the cloud to a brief overview of how that objective is met by the material. There may be problems with accessibility issues, though, because a screen reader would probably struggle with the words and a person who uses the keyboard rather than the mouse may not be able to tab through the cloud. It might be an idea to link the words in the cloud to a brief overview of how that objective is met by the material.

There may be problems with accessibility issues, though, because a screen reader would probably struggle with the words and a person who uses the keyboard rather than the mouse may not be able to tab through the cloud.

]]> By: Karyn Romeis http://janetclarey.com/2008/01/09/480/comment-page-1/#comment-4982 Karyn Romeis Thu, 10 Jan 2008 10:05:00 +0000 http://janetclarey.com/?p=480#comment-4982 It might be an idea to link the words in the cloud to a brief overview of how that objective is met by the material. There may be problems with accessibility issues, though, because a screen reader would probably struggle with the words and a person who uses the keyboard rather than the mouse may not be able to tab through the cloud. It might be an idea to link the words in the cloud to a brief overview of how that objective is met by the material.

There may be problems with accessibility issues, though, because a screen reader would probably struggle with the words and a person who uses the keyboard rather than the mouse may not be able to tab through the cloud.

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