I made a couple of visualizations of this week’s class discussions. I’m tempted to just throw them up here without any explanation, like Dr. Sample did with that French popsicle image, but I don’t think mine are spiffy enough to make any sense unless I provide at least some info.
- The black rectangles are the doors of Studio D.
- The red circles are occupied seats.
- The green rectangles are Dr. Sample’s perches, i.e. where he spoke from (his desk, where he stood).
- The orange-ish rectangles and squares are the tables.
- I used a different method for each of the visualizations.
- If you think of the flow of conversation as passing a ball around the room, then Tuesday’s image assumes that the ball is thrown back to Dr. Sample after each comment unless you’re directly responding to someone else.
- Thursday’s, on the other hand, assumes that the ball is thrown from student to student, and never given back to Dr. Sample after he “kicks off” the day’s discussion.
That’s all I’ll say! Hopefully you can make some sense of out them. Maybe you can even come to a meaningful conclusion. Maybe not.
Tuesday
Thursday
