5/6C’s Class Blog 2008

Making a graph of information can often help to give a clearer picture of what data you have or how parts of it connect to other parts. We’ve made graphs of our height, how we use our time, temperature over a day and many other sets of data. Here’s a new twist on graphs though – graph your website!

Plugging your site’s URL into this page will produce a graph of your content – it’s really interesting to watch the picture being constructed on your screen. I made graphs of our blog and our wiki; they look quite different, because the structure of each site is so different.  If you want to see some more amazing shots, there are more than two thousand posted here on Flickr.

  Here is another interesting tool which converts your site to a picture that looks like a DNA sample. According to the site,  ”WEB2DNA will take you website, analyze it, crunch it to little bits and spit it out as a graphic representation of a human DNA.” I think the most interesting part of this is, like the graphs above, comparing the pictures of different sites. Here are the WEB2DNA pictures of our blog and wiki:

 There are hundreds of other examples of sites pictured with WEB2DNA here on Flickr. 

So, has anyone found any other cool sites that change your webpages to graphics? Please let us know if you have!

Mrs C found an interesting site for sending unusual greetings: Geogreetings. The program uses buildings that look like letters, from around the world, to make up any phrase or message you like, up to 40 letters. Then you get a link to an animated page that spells out your message – very cool.

Click on the image above to see how it works.

 Our poll showed that games are high on our readers’ list of things they want to see on our blog. Ask and you will receive: Click here to play! . This challenge is fun! Use the equipment given to make the ball land in the cup. And no cheating (not mentioning any names, Jarrod!)

More games can be found on our blogroll to the right and on our Learning Links page. Enjoy! Please post a comment to tell us what you think of these games, and to recommend any other child and education-friendly sites.