Monday, December 10, 2012

5. Defining and Visualizing Concepts


                                                Defining and Visualizing Concepts

1. List two concepts highly relevant to your sociological focus. Briefly state why you would like to learn more about them and especially why you would like to build multimedia around them.

Two concepts that are highly relevant to my sociological focus are education and teaching in media.  I would like to learn more about these concepts and build multimedia around them because both education and teaching are the basis of the progress of people and nations 
renaissance, and they are the most important elements of education.

2. Provide a brief description relative to how each concept has been defined and measured 
(i.e., operationalized) in the academic literature (books and/or journal articles). In so doing, consult at least two references per concept (be sure to provide citations for references (follow 
citation style of American Sociological Review).

For education ,the article" Conductive Education" by Ratiffe, Katherine T, Sanekane, Cindy. Discusses the importance of education, learning disabilities and the importance of developing learning environments for students and help them achieve their goals.
For teaching, the article" Techno Teaching" by Anonymous. Discusses the role of teaching in education and that most of the teachers are trying to develop teaching plans by embedding 
technology.

3. For each concept, briefly describe how you might approach it via multimedia representation.

 Education via distance education.
Teaching through videos.  

4. Relative to A Periodic Table of Visualization Methods, determine the following for each of your concepts:

a. Would “structure” or “process” visualization work best?

I think the visualization structure will work best in education and teaching, because the media has become a necessity in training and education.

b. Which of the six broad types might be most applicable?

Either via the concept of metaphor or vision, because the use of educational technology in the process of teaching and learning makes education more effective and impact among students.

c. Within that broad type, which particular visualization device might be most appropriate?

The best way to focus on images and learning map because it best suited for learning and teaching

d. Run each concept through Wordnik, Visuwords, Lexipedia, and Ngram Viewer. Did you discover anything noteworthy?

*Wordnik:
Education: A program of instruction of a specified kind or level.
Teach: To give instruction, especially as an occupation.

*Visuwords:
Education: knowledge by learning and instruction.
Teach: A person whose occupation is teaching.

*Lexipedia:
Education: The knowledge acquired in school, which person's mind and character.
Teach: impart skills or knowledge to.

*Ngram Viewer:
Education:

    
            Teach:


What I found in the Wordnik, Visuwords, and  Lexipedia definitions are very similar but in the Wordnik view the definitions was clear and easier. As for Ngram viewer is different in display compared to others because it shows via the graph.

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