Comments on: ILI2012 Workshop Prep – Appropriating IT: innovative uses of emerging technologies http://blog.ouseful.info/2012/09/25/ili2012-workshop-prep-appropriating-it-innovative-uses-of-emerging-technologies/ Trying to find useful things to do with emerging technologies in open education Mon, 20 May 2013 17:09:06 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Feeding Google Spreadsheets: Exercises in using importHTML, importFeed, importXML, importRange and importData (with some QUERY too) JISC CETIS MASHe http://blog.ouseful.info/2012/09/25/ili2012-workshop-prep-appropriating-it-innovative-uses-of-emerging-technologies/#comment-28312 Fri, 26 Oct 2012 13:55:10 +0000 http://blog.ouseful.info/?p=8584#comment-28312 [...] … W2 – Appropriating IT: innovative uses of emerging technologies. Tony has already posted a draft outline of the day. For the event I wanted to prepare some notes on using Google Spreadsheets/Sheets (I very confused [...]

]]> By: Brian Kelly (UK Web Focus) http://blog.ouseful.info/2012/09/25/ili2012-workshop-prep-appropriating-it-innovative-uses-of-emerging-technologies/#comment-28136 Fri, 19 Oct 2012 07:09:26 +0000 http://blog.ouseful.info/?p=8584#comment-28136 Hi Tony
Although some participants may value learning about simple development and processing environments such as Yahoo Pipes and Google Refine, it might also be useful to highlight some simple shrink-wrapper solutions. So perhaps a lead-in to introducing TAGS it might be useful to show some of the commercial equivalents (e.g. Twubs for Twitter archiving and even Klout,20ft.net, etc. Twitter analytics). You can mention the limitations of such services and then describe how TAGS may address such limitations (e.g. not spamming one’s followers as 20ft.net does) or suffer from the same limitations.

]]> By: Conference Treasure Boxes « OUseful.Info, the blog… http://blog.ouseful.info/2012/09/25/ili2012-workshop-prep-appropriating-it-innovative-uses-of-emerging-technologies/#comment-28128 Thu, 18 Oct 2012 19:52:37 +0000 http://blog.ouseful.info/?p=8584#comment-28128 [...] is a really powerful idea, I think, particularly for conference workshop sessions. For the workshop session I’m due to give (with @mhawksey) at ILI2012, one of the things it would be handy to do would [...]

]]> By: mhawksey http://blog.ouseful.info/2012/09/25/ili2012-workshop-prep-appropriating-it-innovative-uses-of-emerging-technologies/#comment-27745 Tue, 25 Sep 2012 14:26:05 +0000 http://blog.ouseful.info/?p=8584#comment-27745 Some example tutorials we’ve done which your readers might want to comment on in terms of relevance/interest

Google Spreadsheets
Dev8Ed: Slides and video of short version of hacking stuff together with Google Spreadsheets
http://mashe.hawksey.info/2012/06/dev8ed-slides-and-video-of-short-version-of-hacking-stuff-together-with-google-spreadsheets/

Using Google Spreadsheets Like a Database – The QUERY Formula
http://blog.ouseful.info/2010/01/19/using-google-spreadsheets-like-a-database-the-query-formula/

Creating Wordclouds
Generating Twitter Wordclouds in R (Prompted by an Open Learning Blogpost) http://blog.ouseful.info/2012/02/15/generating-twitter-wordclouds-in-r-prompted-by-an-open-learning-blogpost/

Notes on generating live wordclouds from Yahoo Pipes using D3.js
http://mashe.hawksey.info/2012/04/notes-on-generating-live-wordclouds-from-yahoo-pipes-using-d3-js/

Google Refine
Looking up Images Trademarked By Companies Using OpenCorporates and Google Refine
http://blog.ouseful.info/2012/03/25/looking-up-images-trademarked-by-companies-via-opencorporates-and-google-refine/

Google Refine/OAI-PMH
Exploring UKOER/JORUM via OAI with Google Refine and visualising with Gource [day 11]
http://mashe.hawksey.info/2011/12/google-refining-jorum-ukoer/

Gephi – Network Graphs
Visualising Twitter Friend Connections Using Gephi: An Example Using the @WiredUK Friends Network http://blog.ouseful.info/2011/07/07/visualising-twitter-friend-connections-using-gephi-an-example-using-wireduk-friends-network/

NodeXL equivalent http://mashe.hawksey.info/2011/09/twitter-network-analysis-and-visualisation-ii-nodexl/

Google Analytics
Using Google Spreadsheets to combine Twitter and Google Analytics data to find your top content distributors http://mashe.hawksey.info/2012/03/combine-twitter-and-google-analytics-data-to-find-your-top-content-distributors/

]]> By: mhawksey http://blog.ouseful.info/2012/09/25/ili2012-workshop-prep-appropriating-it-innovative-uses-of-emerging-technologies/#comment-27742 Tue, 25 Sep 2012 13:34:10 +0000 http://blog.ouseful.info/?p=8584#comment-27742 A while ago I was asked to do a session on cleaning up some oai-pmh data in Google Refine. I could walk-through the Jorum data again (more show-and-tell then hands on to avoid participants doing a local install of refine).

I also helped Natalie Pollecutt with an interesting recipe where she used Google Spreadsheets to scrap wikipedia’s ‘Today’s featured article’ and using the result to then search their library catalogue for related resources. The result was emailed but there’s maybe a way to wrap in a visualisation.

Will ponder some more

]]> By: Brian Kelly (UK Web Focus) http://blog.ouseful.info/2012/09/25/ili2012-workshop-prep-appropriating-it-innovative-uses-of-emerging-technologies/#comment-27738 Tue, 25 Sep 2012 13:10:39 +0000 http://blog.ouseful.info/?p=8584#comment-27738 Thanks for sharing this. A suggestion I’d make is that after you’ve introduced yourselves and described the aims of the session, ask the participants to say what they’d like to get from the session (possibly discussed in small groups before sharing with everyone). That will help you get a feel for their interests and level of experience and should make it less intimidating for the participants if they feel the session is beyond their levels of expertise.

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