{"id":217,"date":"2010-01-19T07:05:45","date_gmt":"2010-01-19T13:05:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.weblearning.co.za\/blog\/index.php\/2010\/01\/19\/information-and-confusion\/"},"modified":"2010-01-19T07:05:45","modified_gmt":"2010-01-19T13:05:45","slug":"information-and-confusion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/weblearning.co.za\/blog\/information-and-confusion\/","title":{"rendered":"Information and Confusion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I love the rough and ready index cards that Jessica Hagy uses with her &#8220;Venn Dadagrams&#8221; at <a href=\"http:\/\/thisisindexed.com\/\">Indexed<\/a>. Her <a href=\"http:\/\/thisisindexed.com\/2009\/10\/needles-and-haystacks-and-such\/\">Needles and Haystacks<\/a> graph (slide 3)perfectly captures the befuddled brain after a long morning of course introductions.<\/p>\n<div id=\"__ss_2947459\" style=\"width: 425px; text-align: left;\"><a style=\"font:14px Helvetica,Arial,Sans-serif;display:block;margin:12px 0 3px 0;text-decoration:underline;\" title=\"AV \/ Ed Tech Introduction\" href=\"http:\/\/www.slideshare.net\/weblearning\/av-ed-tech-introduction\">AV \/ Ed Tech Introduction<\/a><object style=\"margin:0px\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"425\" height=\"355\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/static.slidesharecdn.com\/swf\/ssplayer2.swf?doc=1edtechcourseoutline2010-100119062817-phpapp01&amp;stripped_title=av-ed-tech-introduction\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<div style=\"font-size: 11px; font-family: tahoma,arial; height: 26px; padding-top: 2px;\">View more <a style=\"text-decoration:underline;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.slideshare.net\/\">presentations<\/a> from <a style=\"text-decoration:underline;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.slideshare.net\/weblearning\">Derek Moore<\/a>.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>To finish off their befuddlement, I hauled out the data projector and subjected the class to their first (but certainly not last)\u00a0 &#8220;death by powerpoint&#8221;. My collection of icons and &#8220;pictures&#8221; illustrated what they could expect this year, and (I hope) allowed them to take in a bit of visual data. While the slideshow was not as articulate as Jessica&#8217;s visual vocabulary, it must have stuck, because <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/CarmiaKorsten\">Carmia<\/a> took up my slide 25 challenge, and tracked me down on Twitter an hour later. I&#8217;m impressed. I wonder if anyone else can find me?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love the rough and ready index cards that Jessica Hagy uses with her &#8220;Venn Dadagrams&#8221; at Indexed. Her Needles and Haystacks graph (slide 3)perfectly captures the befuddled brain after a long morning of course introductions. AV \/ Ed Tech Introduction View more presentations from Derek Moore. To finish off their befuddlement, I hauled out &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/weblearning.co.za\/blog\/information-and-confusion\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Information and Confusion&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[47],"class_list":["post-217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-discover","tag-ukznav","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/weblearning.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/weblearning.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/weblearning.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weblearning.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weblearning.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/weblearning.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/weblearning.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weblearning.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weblearning.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}