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WikiNodes is an app for the Apple iPad built by IDEA.org.〔Wikipedia's 'The Signpost' 13 June 2011, In the news.〕 WikiNodes was the first tablet app for browsing Wikipedia using a radial tree approach to visualize how articles and subsections of articles are interrelated. The app displays related items (articles or sections of an article), which spread on the screen, as a spiderweb of icons.〔Mossberg, Walt. "Encyclopaedia Britannica Now Fits Into an App." 28-September-2011. ( Wall Street Journal ). The article mentions WikiNodes, while discussing the Britannica app, noting that "This kind of visual array of related items isn’t a new idea. In fact, there is an iPad app called WikiNodes which does something similar for Wikipedia content."〕 == Operation == The app uses the SpicyNodes visualization technique which was awarded a "best for teaching and learning" award in 2011 from American Association of School Librarians (AASL),〔AASL. June 2011. (Top 25 Websites for Teaching and Learning ).〕 and voted #edchat's 35 Best Web 2.0 Classroom Tools in 2010.〔edudemic.com, "(The 35 Best Web 2.0 Classroom Tools Chosen By You )" (August July 2010).〕 The user interface is based on two display modes: * Page view -- displays Wikipedia articles in long form, similar to how they appear on the main Wikipedia web site.〔WikiNodes: app that presents a keyword to a word association game. Ideal for expedition Wikipedia! (Japanese) (AppBank )〕 * Node view -- divides Wikipedia articles into sections, and links articles to related articles, similar to mind mapping.〔"The interface presentation of information () similar to that of mind mapping, which I love." - Jess Seilheimer, (Digilicious )〕 The user can drag nodes, taps any node to display it in detail, with a panel to scroll to read the contents of the section.〔"The interface is a freestyle drag and zoom bonanza that lets you jump between related articles easily." - (iPad Apps )〕 This provides a visual way to see the relationships between articles.〔"()...could redefine the way that you use Wikipedia on the iOS." - Blake Grundman, (148Apps )〕〔"WikiNodes takes the huge sprawling maze of information that is Wikipedia and organizes it into a spider web of knowledge." - Phil Hornshaw, (Yahoo! News & Appolicious )〕 As of June 2011, the app supports the 36 (top Wikipedia languages ) (by number of articles). 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「WikiNodes」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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