Philip Tubman
Learning Technology Specialist from Lancaster University
Location Lancaster
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Philip Tubman made a comment
Phil, 43, thinking about making a move perhaps and so interested to learn some tips in successful interview technique
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Philip Tubman replied to Sarah P
Thanks @SarahP what a lovely thing to do. I hope others are able to connect with you through this !!
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Hi that would be a great suggestion for the comment discovery tool however I can only get the comments with an id rather than the name for upload. This makes the pseudonymous but not identifiable. Thanks for the suggestion though :)
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Comments updated daily so are 24h behind. Sometimes the corpus isn't ready until later in the day too, but they will all end up in the cloud if they meet a 'word count' threshold (ie try to encourage others to use your # and use similar ones to amplify that theme)....
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Philip Tubman made a comment
Comment Discovery Tool is now live!
Try to remember to use #hashtags in your comments and it will display these in a separate tab on the #visualisation - #sociallearning #uk #secondaryeducation (for example).
Comments are always 1 day behind live, but the tool becomes more useful as new people start (I bet you never look behind you when you race through... -
Great! I've updated the comments corpus now so you will see a lovely wordcloud rather than the cute dog ! Try to use #hashtags in your comments and these will appear in a separate tab, which allows you to kind of 'self-theme' your comments and makes it easier to find comments which are interesting to you. Have another go now!
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Philip Tubman made a comment
Comment corpus became available on 20/10 and is now uploaded to the system. Will be updated daily!
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Philip Tubman replied to Marnie Weiss
Sure just write them as a single word with a hash at the front #multisensorytechniques !
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Philip Tubman replied to [Learner left FutureLearn]
@BenPinkDandelion @AdrienneCullen-Morgan - Survey is active now. Thanks
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@MicaelaKristin-Kali @BenPinkDandelion - the survey is active now. Looking forward to hearing your feedback!
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hi @CarrieMitchell - All working now. Thanks for your patience. (I love that word too)
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Hi @LorraineO'Hanlon @BenWood - the CDT tool is now up and running. I have to upload the comments separately when they become available from FutureLearn.
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Hi @VeenaBhambhani can you try on a different browser. Suggest Google Chrome...
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Philip Tubman made a comment
The words are arranged both semantically and using a 'folksonomy': so the top 200 words in the course comments (minus key stopwords) are visualised in the main and weekly graphs, and all words prefixed with a # are visualised in the hastags tab.
The idea is that you are able to hashtag any word to create sub-communities of interest, or your own...
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Hi @GeraldineKyle I think that the 'most liked' feature is weighted towards early comments, especially if later people just click on most liked, and then add another 'like'. this is also called the 'matthew effect' https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_effect (or 'the rich get richer' effect)
thanks for your comment!
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Philip Tubman replied to Elizabeth B
I personally also think that FutureLearn doesn't do enough to encourage learners to think about their own goals from doing the course, so I think having a think about what words to click on can help in this type of reflection activity.
It is a fun activity to ask what other learners click on, so the peer group can 'compare notes' and say what new things...
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Philip Tubman replied to Elizabeth B
Hi Elizabeth - Thanks for your feedback. The research tool is developed for discovering new conversations within the larger corpus. For example most learners will only read around 20 comments on a given page, and will not return to a previous page to see if anything of interest has been added. These common interactions do not encourage a wider use of the...
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Philip Tubman replied to Dorcas Serwaa
@BaderRemawi Thanks for you comments. I have switched the comment tool on now!
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Philip Tubman replied to Nkem Ukpabi
Thanks for you comments. I have switched the comment tool on now!
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Philip Tubman replied to Naomi Cheung
Thanks for you comments. I have switched the comment tool on now!
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Philip Tubman replied to Philip Tubman
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Philip Tubman made a comment
Thanks for you comments. I have switched the comment tool on now!
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@JenniHyde - it uses the whole corpus of comments for the weekly and the overall cloud. the hashtag feature is to enable learners to determine 'themes' as the overall clouds can get cluttered with 'linking' words, although many 'grammatical' words (the and but) are stripped out of all of them.
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Philip Tubman made a comment
Hi All - thanks for your comments about the CDT/ cloud tool. I hope a few of you found it interesting. I've just had a look at this corpus of commentary and there were over 8500 comments overall (so far!), so well done everyone for contributing to the 'funds of knowledge'.
The 'cloud visualisation' intends to give a view on this corpus, but the real value...
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I think the Quakers course will run next April
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Philip Tubman replied to Gillian M
You can come back to 1.14 but it is also available in 3.14, 4.13 and 5.12 on its own step like this one. Unfortunately Week 2 is new for 2020 and I missed out adding it in specifically. There is a link in 2.9 to return to this step though. Thanks for your comment - Phil - (wordcloud designer)
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Philip Tubman replied to Laurie G
sorry @LaurieG - the activity is back up and running
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Philip Tubman replied to Rebecca O
Hi @LindaPayne - but i rabbit holes can be very serendipitous experiences, no? The idea of the cloud being a not-search is to encourage these types of self-determined and random learning encounters!
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Philip Tubman replied to Jan Taylor
It should pick up all the #hashtags but it is always a day behind as i need to upload the comments corpus to the system separately. Will have to have a look at the Nat Lib Scot site I've not seen it there.... can you give the link out please?
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Philip Tubman replied to Kay Stopforth
it's on a reflection and inquiry learning activity at the end of each week
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Remember that many more comments will be added to each step after you have moved on; discovery is greater when there are more comments to mine into and the hive mind is bigger!
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thanks @CaroleSturgiss - the full comments dataset today was only 150k but by the end of the course it will be more like 15MB (that's a 100 fold increase). Thanks for trying and try to put the hashtags in so it is easier to find themes within the visualisation.. Hopefully that instruction makes more sense now!
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Philip Tubman replied to Glenis Newton
# appear later in the week on 1.17 - I have developed a visualisation so you can search based on terms which are preceded with a # symbol... Don't worry though it is optional!
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Philip Tubman replied to Glenis Newton
Hi Glenis, thanks for using the # in your comments. Just a note though - you need to use a single word with no spaces for it to be properly included in the visualisation step in 1.17 #dovecottage. Just write the term at the end of your comment if it doesn't feel right mid-sentence. Thanks again - Phil (visualisation developer)
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@MalcolmFowles what a great comment. Sometimes noticing what is missing is also a useful exercise. I think @FiS is also right about forgetting to # but the other clouds just pick up on frequency, so this cohort have not been talking about #mulch enough for it to make the list.
As a tip though, if you click on a word which you think may be related, the cloud...
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i'll do that and post it to the final discovery tool page in week 4 in a couple of weeks @ClareDonnison !! Thanks!
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Philip Tubman replied to Chelsea l
All other Lancaster University courses do it!
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Philip Tubman replied to Paul Sanders
The tool is available on one of the final steps of each week. It can be accessed from any of these steps but it has been inserted into the learning design there as the designed intention is not to break the flow of content, but to provide an opportunity at the end of the week to think about what you have heard or read and have a look back on areas you want to...
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Philip Tubman replied to Mick Krupa
Yes I have tried to create 'sections' of content in the weekly structure and in the hashtags. Pro tip: 'borrow' each others' hashtags too if it pertains to a similar area of interest rather than creating a new derivative....
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it is updated each day with yesterday's comments, because it is an external tool hosted by Lancaster and not integrated into the FL side of the platform...
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Philip Tubman replied to Cathy Kelly
you can use this exercise whenever you like. It is at the end of every week, but feel free to revisit it on this page or any of the other 2.x, 3.x and 4.x Thanks and glad you are enjoying it as a new way to discover new conversations :)
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@AlenaJurisa yes that would be a good idea. The idea is for the learning community to work out what the most relevant terms are for that specific course.
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Thanks for your comments @EduardoMórlan and thanks for being the 'guinea pigs' for this new version :) All comments taken onboard and I hope you come across the CDT in future courses. :)
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Philip Tubman replied to ALFRED WASIKE
@ALFREDWASIKE - i had to come back and tell you that #Uganda has made it onto the #hashtag cloud :)
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have you tried it out in another browser rather than chrome? I will try to replicate this error (do you use any extensions etc. on Chrome and are you PC or Mac based?)
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Philip Tubman replied to ALFRED WASIKE
Hi @ALFREDWASIKE - the words appear in a simple count operation and the top 70 or so hashtags appear on the page, largest are the most common.
OK - I have looked and I can see you #Uganda around 6 times in your comments - sometimes you used #Ugandan which is a different term and other times you used the # next to a " which makes it a different term again...
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@HendJandali - what exactly happens when you click - do you get a 'white screen' or an error message? A catch-all trick is often to clear your browser cache and have another go.....
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Thanks, I will do this - good idea!
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Philip Tubman replied to Val C
if there is a hashtag which is related to yours, you should use that one in order to surface your comment and then use your own too in case others find your tag through the more popular one, if this makes sense.....
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Philip Tubman replied to Catrin EGAN
Fair point @CatrinEGAN although this is entirely unintentional. The course in the video is about chemistry in the 1700's and it is a little unknown fact that women were indeed enthusiastic participants to the lectures which would have been uncommon at the time, so the opposite effect is intended. Sorry!
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Which browser are you using? I've known it to conflict if you have privacy extensions installed on your browser, but it has been tested across all common browsers.
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Philip Tubman replied to Tom Ireland
Only the hashtag tab has a limit of one thanks
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Philip Tubman replied to Kim Harrison
Look in the # tab I think French is in there.....
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Philip Tubman replied to Bert Horwood
Hi @BertHorwood - try looking for related words, or just interesting words, rather than searching for a specific term (or just pick a random word and see where it takes you...). Often the words you were looking for appear on the 2nd cloud if you find a related word in the initial cloud. Thanks for your feedback!
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Yes - you could also use the 'bookmark' feature, but it is locked into a step isn't it? And the issue you say with non-free access expiry. You are probably doing the right thing by keeping side notes. Actually the more i researched platform features and tools, the more I realised that there probably should be a 'notebook' feature, where you can push...
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First up: I don't know why the FL product team have not implemented a search, but if i can surmise, it is because the pedagogical premise of the platform design is to have conversation at the same place as the content, thus a comments area on every page. This is a key part of the 'conversational framework' developed by Diana Laurillard (google it: there are...
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Philip Tubman replied to The William
Thanks - the # tab is totally new - we have been developing this tool for about 3 years at Lancaster, but only just introduced #. Originally I thought people would write a normal comment and then add metadata, but actually people tend to just # terms as they write, so perhaps a multi-# feature might work well. Thanks for your feedback!
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Philip Tubman replied to Cathy Gunn
The second term should filter down, except in the hashtag tab, where there is a 1 term selection limit....
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Philip Tubman replied to Sue Jones
I chose #hill and blew my mind re: history of the English Civil War, or English Revolution....
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Philip Tubman replied to Barbara Rossi
Click on the you tube logo to view in you tube which will have full screen. Thanks
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@TheWilliam thanks for this. Will include in updated video. This course is a real guinea pig for #
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@BreO'Connell # all one word no spaces to be included in cloud. Cloud takes top 200 as a count/ by popularity... Thanks
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Philip Tubman replied to Mark Tulley
You can search via the browser cntl+f or cmd+f but really the exercise is about discovering rather than searching = serendipity rather than algorithmic surfacing
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Philip Tubman replied to Anne Gambrell
It’s the search on your browser. Click cmd+f on your Mac
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Philip Tubman replied to ALFRED WASIKE
Try clicking on Africa in the main cloud if it is there, or maybe another word relating to Uganda and maybe you will find some Ugandans!!
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Thanks for your comment: hashtags all one word no spaces to be included. Top 200 get included in cloud, so if there is one already in use which is close to your topic, start to use that one too. It’s the first course to try this feature so we are learning as we go!! Would love to include # recommendations but this app is hosted at lancaster and developed by us...
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Philip Tubman replied to Fiona Baxter
It's available at the end of each week, and obviously the corpus grows everyday. Have a look at the #hashtag tab also which may give more 'thematic' responses. Also look at how the wordcloud changes as you pick words - you may find that some words get larger representing something intriguing or surprising... There is no obligation to participate in this...
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Philip Tubman replied to Tina H
The search in the video is actually something on the browser. Just click cmd +F or cntl +F (depending whether you are Mac or PC), and then search for a word. Works on any website!!
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Philip Tubman replied to Philip Allum
It isn't in the remit of this project, but the idea of the hashtags was that short phrases could be attached to comments prefixed with #hashtag to improve discoverability.
This project tries to disinguish between search and discoverability... search is good if you know what you are looking for (ie google) and is primed to deliver the most...
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Hi @SueBrackenridge these comments are just from this intake (2020 cohort).. thanks
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Its available at the end of every week, but it is the same exercise/ tool
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Philip Tubman replied to Wendy Tait
It has been developed by researchers at lancaster to help with managing social learning. It isn’t available generally on fl but it is on all lancaster courses.
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Philip Tubman replied to Jane Saunte
@JaneSaunte The comments in the cloud are a day behind the course, so your tag may appear tomorrow. it usually takes a few days before the tool really starts to get interesting... if you keep writing and leaving #hashtags the idea is that others will use the same tags as they read and start to form thematic learning communities... hope this helps...
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Philip Tubman replied to Sari T
The comments corpus develops throughout the course, so will have many more words and hashtags in it in a few days...
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Philip Tubman made a comment
Words are uploaded to the Wordcloud Tool on day 2 of the course (28th April)
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On my Mac I use the alt+3 key, but a lot depends on the keyboard layout you have (UK) - On my PC keyboard it is just next to the <enter> key with no shift or alt or anything. This link https://www.wikihow.com/Type-Symbols-on-a-Keyboard shows you how to do it but its a big longwinded. I'd just open a text editor and experiment...
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Hi @EIrving @MarciaBlackman - in the coming weeks try to use your #parents tag on your comments and hopefully other learners will pick up on it and start using it too. Glad you found each other though!
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Keep trying @MarciaBlackman i update it daily with a new corpus. Also try related words and the secondary cloud might have the words you are looking for...
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Philip Tubman replied to Marnie Wild
It is available for as long as you have access to the course. If you are 'unlimited' (subscription) or upgrade this course then the tool, and the comments are available indefinitely. Otherwise I believe access is limited to course length + 2 weeks = 6 weeks from joining on the free plan. Thanks!!
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Philip Tubman replied to Sophia B
It is available as a step at the end of each week, but you can always come back to this page too if you like....
Search is not available on the individual steps of a course; this tool is designed as 'discovery' rather than 'search' as it intends to be more free flowing and suggestive...
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Philip Tubman replied to Marnie S
What browser are you using? I've tested it on many devices and not seen an 'anchor' problem before because the URL of the 'join' link has the comment id appended to it (same as the notifications links)
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Its the search/ find tool on your browser. Press control (or CMD for Mac) + F
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Philip Tubman replied to Daleen D
Thanks for your feedback. This is certainly a work in progress, and hashtags are brand new for this run. However, as the corpus grows, the tag cloud should start to prioritise tags which are used multiple times, so random tags should drop off the list. Indeed i have just updated it this morning and it looks to have more relevant terms in already to me...
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Thanks @EduardoMórlan for your comment. You're right the use of metadata is to create #themes in the course content, so it is easier for learners to discover their own interests amongst the massive participation.
I have found that learners rarely 'look back' at steps when they have 'marked complete', so a whole part of the commentary is unavailable or...
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Keep up with it! - the corpus will grow. There are around 5000 learners on this course!!
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Philip Tubman replied to Marnie S
Hi @MarnieS - what do you mean it stops on the main page. If you click 'join this conversation' it should go to the step, then scroll to the anchor point of that specific comment.
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Philip Tubman replied to Kevin McAteer
thanks @KevinMcAteer - keep up with it. I think it gets more interesting as the corpus of words grows... Also try to 'categorise' your results - so pick a more general word if you can't see your first pick in there, and it can narrow down from there. Thanks for the insightful commentary....
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Philip Tubman made a comment
Comments will be available later today (21st April)
**UPDATE** - they are available now!!
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Philip Tubman replied to mary russell
@maryrussell Hi. Thanks for your interest. The wordcloud is built to accessibility standards, so a screenreader would be able to tab through each word in order and press enter to highlight.
It is also a work in progress, which is being further developed through iterative feedback (like this), and I am currently working on a new version (v2) which has the...
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Philip Tubman replied to Tania Okeefe
Thanks @TaniaOkeefe - you may find that by looking for and clicking on a more general terms about your topic will be a good start in narrowing down to specific things, as the wordcloud changes when you select a word to only display words from comments which also include your first word, so many new and more specific/ niche words will appear in the second/...
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@AmandaOliver Yes - a visualisation of the comments with URLs would be useful and is something I have thought of. I also recognise that the algorithm I deployed for the research papers above is limited in that it makes an assumption that conversations happen in 'units' and my code can check the 'units' but not the interpretative links between original posts,...
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The thing about silos is that I would like to see people use multiple hashtags on their posts - so like instagram - for example i got this one through searching #dogwalkers https://www.instagram.com/p/B4UPTs9la85/ but there are lots of other tags to also explore, so you could put your comment in multiple silos in a kind of 'everything is miscellaneous' kind of...
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"Then there's the question of whether the tool takes you to the first comment on the thread or jumps straight in where the keyword is mentioned, because often ideas develop over the course of the thread." - this is also something i have designed for. The 'new' V2 cloud will have a 'show conversation' button to reveal the whole conversation from the wordcloud...
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@AmandaOliver Hi, yes i agree with it all really. There is a chance # will make comments more 'silo'ed', but along with the other tabs it may be useful for some. then again, adding more tabs will make the interface more complicated for others... with all design a push in one direction is always a pull in the other, and when those designs are 'affordances' in...
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PS - If you have the time, I would really appreciate the opportunity to do an online interview with you to discuss all this stuff 'more formally' and dig deeper into your uses of the FL platform such as your strategies for doing courses out of order, your downloading of videos etc. If you want to express an interest, please follow the survey link here:...
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but i have a smaller dataset of 'bad words' at least...
The idea of computationally making 'related' words join or something is an idea that I struggle with, as part of the reason for the cloud is to click on a word, and see what words are displayed on 'cloud 2, 3 etc.' so people are able to make 'conceptual connections' through...
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@AmandaOliver thanks for your comments.
In order - the CDT tool is only used on the Lancaster courses, so i'm not sure what the one on the 'scottish clans' course is. Is this a way of adding a single word as an answer which gets visualised from the response? My cloud examines ALL words, but this could fall foul of 'keyword stuffers' as you say...
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@AmandaOliver - I have a couple of ideas, the following very close to implementation - have multiple tabs on the interface to display: 1. wordclouds for each week; 2. wordclouds for only tutor comments; 3. wordclouds for only words preceded with #, to encourage learners to think about 'self-coordination' of content throughout the whole course.
I am less...
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Philip Tubman made a comment
If anyone is interested in participating in a short (20 minute) online interview as part of my PhD research to discuss this exercise, please register your interest here: https://lancasteruni.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_88Ig365MUVQlSiF
Thanks!
