Share your Experience with Gapminder Activity

Greeting everyone,

Please share your experience working on this activity.
Specifically, comment on the use of the new tools Gapminder, Wiki, Jing, etc.
Here are a few suggested questions:

1. Gapminder and Activity

- What did you like about this activity? What did you not like?
- What are your suggestions to make it better?
- Do you promote the use of Gapminder as a tool for viewing and exploring data
in a statistic class?
- Comment on different ways and different settings we can use Gapminder
to stimulate and expand learning.

2. Wikispace

- Do you like the idea of an editable public website, to read and share your work?
- What are the advantages and disadvantages of a wiki?
- Should it be for everyone or members only?

3. Jing

- How do you like Jing?(Jing can also capture a video via a webcam with a fee.)
- Could you suggest other ways to use Jing?
ex: For me, I could use Jing to capture my piano practice.
If I like the music enough I can save the link and share it with my sister.

Your comments are greatly appreciated.

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Thank you

I would like to thank everyone for participating in the Gapminder Extra Credit Activity. I hope we all had a good time creating our stories despite some initial frustration with the technologies, Wiki, Gapminder, Jing, etc. For those who did not join the activity this time, you can still create your stories and share them on the wiki.

It has been a great learning experience for me promoting the use of Gapminder as a tool for visualizing data and managing the wikispace. Your questions and comments have enriched my understanding of these tools. I look forward to reading your stories more in depth starting tomorrow night.

A big thank-you to those who were willing to go the extra mile to create and share your videos. Your stories will resonate with the viewers as they are able to see the motion pictures.

I invite all of you to read these stories, share your comments and suggestions with the authors. Most of all, have an enjoyable time.

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Posting Videos on Class Wikispace

You first need to create a video and save it as a file or obtain a URL. You can use any software to create your video. I used Jing for this demonstration. Let's watch the video from http://statistics401dxw-isu-spring2011.wikispaces.com/.

Extension for Gapminder Story Assignment

The new due date is April 2nd, 2011.

How to Capture Images or Create Video for your Gapminder Story?

Hello everyone,

I have been using the PrintScreen function on the keyboard to take a picture of my Gapminder graph.

However, today, a friend told me about a new software called Jing that can take a picture or make a short video of what you see on your computer screen. It can also let you share your video and picture instantly on the web.

This will be a nice way to capture an image and/or create a video for your Gapminder story. I encourage you to check it out. It is very simple and easy to use. You can download the software, watch the tutorial, and try it with your own story.

First you can learn to capture a still image using the Capture Image option, save, copy and paste it into your document.

Then try the Capture Video option to create a video to show the animation of your story. You can then obtain a link to the video and share it on the our wikispace or via email, web, etc. Here is the link:

http://www.techsmith.com/jing/

I will demonstrate how to use Jing in Lab on Thursday. Check it out before Lab if possible.
If you know any other methods of screen capture, please share.

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SAS code for Fisher z-transformation

If you are interested in using SAS for question c in Lab 7, you can use the code below:

TITLE Fisher z-transformation correlation test;
PROC CORR data=crime Fisher(rho0=.5 alpha=.01);
VAR violent poverty;
RUN;

I recommend doing this question by hand to find the test statistic z. SAS does not provide this value z. However, you can use the p-value in the output to decide whether or not to reject H0.

Request for Membership to Wiki

Hello everyone,
Please request for membership to the Wiki

http://statistics401dxw-isu-spring2011.wikispaces.com/
so you can post your Extra Credit Assignment.
Let me know if you would like to do an oral presentation.


To request for membership, just click on "Join this Wiki" on the wiki page and select "Request Membership".