TBers,

Reminder that the next (and last of this semester) TB will be Wednesday, May 1 at 8 am outside Starbucks.

I’ll end the semester with a topic of personal interest. The term “mapping knowledge domains” was chosen back in 2003 to describe a newly evolving interdisciplinary area of science aimed at the process of charting, mining, analyzing, sorting, enabling navigation of, and displaying knowledge.  A few years later (2006) EDUCAUSE published on this topic here: http://www.educause.edu/ero/article/mapping-knowledge-nodes-networks-and-domains.

As we strive to teach students how to do research in this environment, I thought it would be worth a brief pause to consider what is happening.   As an example, attached please find a large’ish’ PowerPoint with some of the best visualizations of knowledge as judged in 2003 by a group from the Beckman Center for the National Academy of Sciences in Irvine, CA.   Enjoy.

Mr. James B. Greenberg

Director Teaching, Learning and Technology Center 

Milne Library 

SUNY College at Oneonta Oneonta, New York 13820

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phone: 607-436-2701 

fax:   607-436-3677 

Twitter: greenbjb

"Ignorance is curable, stupidity lasts forever"