Comments on: Connection Activity – how you can help make more community

By: mhawksey

mhawksey — Mon, 20 Jan 2014 22:57:59 +0000

@aaron You can crank up the visualization to include these but it gets messy http://hawksey.info/tagsexplorer/?key=tDHgQeSbHR3fcvN81EHnxQQ&sheet=oaw&mentions=true&retweets=true

By: Aaron Davis

Aaron Davis — Mon, 20 Jan 2014 20:41:18 +0000

Love this task. Although I must say that a lot of the single dots are RT that have not simply ‘Retweeted’, but put a RT in front … False isolation …

By: Maha

Maha — Mon, 20 Jan 2014 16:05:05 +0000

Hiya, i find it really funny that I “followed” Dave’s suggestion here (talk about enforcing independence!) but it was a cool exercise. First, i realized some are not people(e.g. Youtube, scoopit). Second, i realized some ppl have more attractive twitter usernames than others. Several of the names i picked had already been contacted by others 😉 and so finally after lookig at the google map i thought to look for Arabic names and found another fellow Egyptian whom I just contacted. That is already a result 😉
Really enjoyed the ways folks have connected the distributed learning in the course and all the cool tech to make the learning relations more visible

By: mhawksey

mhawksey — Mon, 20 Jan 2014 09:58:54 +0000

Thanks Dave!

TAGSExplorer was borne out of the question ‘where am I’ and hopefully this will give others in the #rhizo14 twitter community a sense of where they are and identify people they find interesting or useful to connect with.

The data for this is read from a Google Sheet http://goo.gl/xmVvT4 which might appeal to people who prefer their data in rows and columns.

The good folks at the MLA have also created this interface for TAGS http://mlaa.github.io/tags-viewer/?0AqGkLMU9sHmLdERIZ1FlU2JIUjNmY3ZOODFFSG54UVE (hit one of the menus at the top to start slicing and dicing)

By: NomadWarMachine

NomadWarMachine — Sun, 19 Jan 2014 19:02:22 +0000

I just did a few. Two replies, one new follower. Result 😀

By: Vanessa Vaile

Vanessa Vaile — Sun, 19 Jan 2014 17:45:39 +0000

where and how do you want us to tell about it? I hope tagging suffices and that RTs count too

By: Christina Hendricks

Christina Hendricks — Sun, 19 Jan 2014 17:43:34 +0000

Great idea, Dave. I’ll do it. One other thing that struck me about myself is that since I’m low on time right now, I’ve often found myself focusing on posts from people I already know and reading those. It’s understandable, given that I want to keep up connections with those people, some of whom I haven’t connected with in awhile. But I also think it’s important to make sure I’m reading and commenting on things by people I haven’t connected with yet, and your post reminded me to do that. One has to pick and choose what one focuses on in a course like this, and now I’m prioritizing both keeping up existing connections and making new ones. Thanks for the reminder!