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!

The first week of the holidays is almost over already – as the saying goes, time flies when you’re having fun! What is everyone up to in the holidays?

This illustration was made using Spell with Flickr. A very cool tool. The images used are from Flickr groups which specialise in collecting photos of letters, digits and punctuation marks.  I found the link on Division 16’s blog, Huzzah. They are a grade 6 class in Canada who have been blogging for a couple of weeks. They have a great blogroll which includes many student and grade blogs, including ours!