Infographics are a very powerful tool for learning. While we do have learning preferences – Visual, Auditory, Read/Write or Kinesthetic – our dominant sense is visual. Further we process images faster, some estimate 60,000x faster than text. Infographics when they are well designed effectively carry a message to us and our students that is easy [...]
There’s Facebook, facebook and more facebook. Between the movie about facebook – The social Network – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Social_Network and times man of the year http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/0,28757,2036683,00.html Facebook and its Developer/creator Mark Zuckerberg are getting huge publicity. Not that it really needs it with over 1/2 a billion people on the network – http://www.facebook.com/press/info.php?statistics I love facebook and [...]
Twitter tends to be quite polarising. People either live and die by twitter or hate it. Many people have started a twitter account and never use it beyond the first forays and others dive in boots and all. For the latter, for the enthusiasts, twitter can become a key element of their social network or [...]
This is a great interactive graphic that takes information about what a person (In the US) does each day. The graphics is activity vs age and time with a wide breakdown of age, race, and employment based groups. This is very cool! Click on the section on the graph to have a detailed breakdown of [...]
http://maps.met.police.uk/ This is a very useful and interesting mash up between Google Maps adn the Metropolitan police database adn crime statistics. The result shows trends, current statistics overlaid on a map of the greater London Area. This is the initial view of the London Area and the pop up bubble as you click on a [...]
http://serc.carleton.edu/NAGTWorkshops/visualization/index.html Seeing is believing, well thats how the story goes anyway. However if your are a visual learner then seeing how something works is a key element to your learning. In geography and the geo-sciences this can be hard to do because of the scale and location. However using a computer to visualise or simulate [...]
http://next.yahoo.net/download/newsglobe/index.html What a neat tool - take current headline news story from round the world published on Yahoo. Add one interactive globe, mash the two together and you have Yahoo News Globe. Spin the planet, select the stories by the red skyscrapers – the bigger the tower the more news stories, click on the [...]
