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Wonder Wheel and Visual Searching Appealing to Visual and Kinesthetic Learners Doug Henry Source: Classroom 2.0 Webinars by Shelley Rodrigo of Maricopa County Community College URL: tinyurl.com/googleatmcccd Link to this talk: learningforever.org

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Tinyurl.com/googleatmcccd Webinar Schedule

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Searching on the Internet Volume of data Data is still exploding Internet: 5M Terabytes, increasing by 100 Tb/Mo Brain: 10Tb stored data - maybe more, because of better compression and indexing Quality of the data "There are four kinds of lies: Lies, damned lies, statistics - and the Internet" Mark Twain (if he were still around) Goal: Data-(organize)->Information-(Analyze)->Knowledge

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Student Searching Problems Search term/keyword selection - wrong keywords, extraneous words, inexperience with advanced searching Shallow searching - only looking at first page of hits Searching too widely, too deeply, or in the wrong direction Searching in the wrong dimension Clustering and organizing hits

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Search Engines and Browsers Different algorithms - Google (crawlers and keywords/tags) vs Yahoo (human indexing) Ordinary search interfaces appeal to read/write learners Visual search engines appeal to visual and even kinesthetic learners

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Example: Google Wonder Wheel Introduced 2009 Wheel display of related searches Based on keywords, similarity Simple interaction Using Wonder Wheel Run Google search look on left Turn off Search Settings>instant search Browser-dependent (IE may not work) Several videos on Youtube (listed at end)

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Google Image Swirl Wonder Wheel for Images

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Timeline Adding a Search Dimension

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Google Squared Building a Spreadsheet

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Google Adwords Formerly Google Keyword Tool

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Applications of Visual Searching Keyword Highlighting Yolink

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Applications of Visual Searching 1. Appealing to different styles of learning Read/write learners - ordinary search engine results Visual - search "visual search engines" - e.g. http://www.masternewmedia.org/top-visual-search-engines-the-most- interesting-ways-to-visually-explore-search-engine-results/ (2009)

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Applications of Visual Searching Visual and kinesthetic learners moving and interaction http://diplomaguide.com/articles/30_of_the_Best_Educational_T ools_for_Auditory_Visual_and_Kinesthetic_Learners.html (2008) Search-cube Surfity

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Applications of Visual Searching - Kinesthetic Learners Touchgraph

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Visuwords learning Applications of Visual Searching - Kinesthetic Learners

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DoodleBuzz Applications of Visual Searching - Kinesthetic Learners

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Applications of Visual Searching 2. Organizing and clustering hits Group work e.g. assign each group a "spoke from Wonder Wheel Suggest new topics for assignments to group members Quintura

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Applications of Visual Searching - Organizing Hits Queens Library Aqua words only

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In Summary: Visual searching with tools like Wonder Wheel can engage and assist visual and kinesthetic learners Automatic detection of related searches can suggest new or different topics and assist in group work Clustering and organizing of search hits can aid in the transformation of data into knowledge

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Some Youtube Links: Wonder wheel keyword + timeline http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RGxOPUNzBj4&feature=related Wonder wheel + timeline http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qDnmQ9Mmj1Q&feature=related Google keyword tool http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDB6 Visual search engines http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6RrWoNKy-WI&feature=related