It’s bloomin’ Digital Bloom’s Taxonomy

 

 

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This pyramid may not be blooming but it is chock-a-block full of some sweet Web 2.0 applications AND they are classified into corresponding information skills.  Why not search for the ones that interest you?

Why not check out 10 x10 because global news is particularly dynamic at the moment and suited to pictorial analysis. We have been talking about Web 2.0 and how the machine is working for us without our direct input – here’s a good example.  How does it work?

Every hour, 10×10 scans the RSS feeds of several leading international news sources, and performs an elaborate process of weighted linguistic analysis on the text contained in their top news stories. After this process, conclusions are automatically drawn about the hour’s most important words. The top 100 words are chosen, along with 100 corresponding images, culled from the source news stories. At the end of each day, month, and year, 10×10 looks back through its archives to conclude the top 100 words for the given time period. In this way, a constantly evolving record of our world is formed, based on prominent world events, without any human input.  So, you can scroll down the sides for a word that looks interesting, or wander among the thumbnail pictures; click on something you like and you are taken to a detailed version of the picture along with the stories that are relevant to that word.   More…

 10 X 10 appears to require our visual literacy skills but interesting that the process begins with verbal analysis/crunching.  But wait, there’s more if you are looking for image associated with verbal tags… the seriously spectacular Tag Galaxy.   Lastly, the Google Images filters can locate images of matching hues to the task at hand.  Enjoy!