Edlightenment » software http://misterv.net Thoughts on Education and Technology Mon, 07 May 2012 18:09:10 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Visual Data http://misterv.net/archives/442 http://misterv.net/archives/442#comments Sun, 20 Feb 2011 21:16:38 +0000 Mister V http://misterv.net/?p=442 Numbers tell stories*. The difficulty is in getting them to do so in a way that humans understand.

A side project (feasible?) I’m currently working on for work is a functional, real time data dashboard. In my mind I can picture the end result of a dashboard that serves up relevant and understandable data that [...]]]> http://misterv.net/archives/442/feed 1 The future of the internet: Semantic Web http://misterv.net/archives/324 http://misterv.net/archives/324#comments Tue, 05 Jan 2010 15:15:32 +0000 Mister V http://misterv.net/?p=324 A glimpse at the next step for the internet.

]]> http://misterv.net/archives/324/feed 0 Video, PD, and Conferencing http://misterv.net/archives/321 http://misterv.net/archives/321#comments Mon, 04 Jan 2010 15:25:18 +0000 Mister V http://misterv.net/?p=321 Sometime in the future I plan to get into the fine points of creating and using video for class (and peer) instruction. I’m still in the experimental stages, but have definitely been convinced of the handiness of some basic video editing software, a flip video, and the ever handy vimeo.com.

Personal geek hero of mine, [...]]]> http://misterv.net/archives/321/feed 0 Best Mind Mapping Software http://misterv.net/archives/263 http://misterv.net/archives/263#comments Wed, 09 Sep 2009 15:28:58 +0000 Mister V http://misterv.net/?p=263 I’ve fiddled with the software called Freemind from year to year and, while being impressed with its abilities, never got around to using it with any kind of regularity.

That changed at the end of last year. I created a mindmap of everything needed in 8th grade social studies (check out the fun [...]]]> http://misterv.net/archives/263/feed 0