Comments on: TagCrowd – A Meme and an Idea http://pocketsofchange.edublogs.org/2008/04/30/tagcrowd-a-meme-and-an-idea/ Wed, 04 Mar 2009 12:43:28 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 hourly 1 By: MsMichetti http://pocketsofchange.edublogs.org/2008/04/30/tagcrowd-a-meme-and-an-idea/comment-page-1/#comment-13 MsMichetti Fri, 02 May 2008 02:58:55 +0000 http://pocketsofchange.edublogs.org/2008/04/30/tagcrowd-a-meme-and-an-idea/#comment-13 Thanks for that idea, Duane. So you mean doing a tag cloud for each Act for comparison? I like the "clickable" option you mention, too. That would definitely make it easier to trace a word, or concept, throughout the text to see how it changes throughout. Anyone know how we could do that? (I'm a techie, but don't know how to design that kind of stuff.) Thanks for that idea, Duane. So you mean doing a tag cloud for each Act for comparison?

I like the “clickable” option you mention, too. That would definitely make it easier to trace a word, or concept, throughout the text to see how it changes throughout.

Anyone know how we could do that? (I’m a techie, but don’t know how to design that kind of stuff.)

]]> By: Duane http://pocketsofchange.edublogs.org/2008/04/30/tagcrowd-a-meme-and-an-idea/comment-page-1/#comment-12 Duane Fri, 02 May 2008 02:32:53 +0000 http://pocketsofchange.edublogs.org/2008/04/30/tagcrowd-a-meme-and-an-idea/#comment-12 One cool thing that could be down with tagclouds and Shakespeare is to do a cloud for each act, and then set up the display to allow the reader to move back and forth within the play's time to see how the important concepts change. For instance your Act 2 example shows KNOCKING so heavily presumably because of the Porter's speech, not because it's an important concept to the play - it would not show up similarly sized for any other act, I bet. Another option I enjoy enabling in my tagclouds is the "drill down" / filter. Say that the unit of measure is actually a "speech", for example. Now say somebody clicks "god", above. Then you go through, selecting only the speeches that contained the word god, and regenerate the cloud. Man, I wish I had the time to work on stuff like this :)... http://www.shakespearegeek.com One cool thing that could be down with tagclouds and Shakespeare is to do a cloud for each act, and then set up the display to allow the reader to move back and forth within the play’s time to see how the important concepts change. For instance your Act 2 example shows KNOCKING so heavily presumably because of the Porter’s speech, not because it’s an important concept to the play – it would not show up similarly sized for any other act, I bet.

Another option I enjoy enabling in my tagclouds is the “drill down” / filter. Say that the unit of measure is actually a “speech”, for example. Now say somebody clicks “god”, above. Then you go through, selecting only the speeches that contained the word god, and regenerate the cloud.

Man, I wish I had the time to work on stuff like this :) …

http://www.shakespearegeek.com

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