ELI2008_Learning_Commons_tagclouds
The 2008 ELI Online Spring Focus Session - Captured in Conversation
To help facilitate connections between participants and with the content, participants in the 2008 ELI Online Spring Focus Session were invited to exchange ideas and URLs in the chat space during each presentation. There were also opportunities to reflect on the program content using discussion questions during each session break.
From those conversations, researchers at North Carolina State University generated tag clouds that visually map the most prevelant themes and words in each chat archive. The following pictures illustrate the key words that emerged.
Key ThemesAfter each day, researchers compiled a list of "Key Themes" from their observations of participant interactions with one another. The following tag cloud is generated from those key themes.
During each session, participants were invited to post questions and comments in the chat space within Adobe Connect. This tag cloud offers a snapshot of the conversation on the first day of the focus session, during "Making Learning Real: Turning Sim City into Sim Science!" by Diane Jass Ketelhut and "Using Computer-Simulated, Case-Based Scenarios to Improve Learning" by David Segal.
During each session break, participants were invited to respond to discussion questions that included, "What key points are you taking away from these sessions?" and, "What ideas are most applicable to your campus?" The following tag cloud came from their responses during the first session break on Tuesday.
Researchers also gathered text from the chat generated during individual sessions. The following tag cloud emerged during Trudi Abel's session entitled, "Integrating Community History, Technology and Service Learning: The Digital Durham Project," where she shared details of Duke Universities efforts to connect 8th grade students with undergraduates on projects with primary sources and technology.
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