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Daily Archives: January 20, 2009
Recent Links 01/20/2009
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Do you use the internet to store photos? Like flickr? Or Photobucket?
Now you can easily create a collage of all your photos by pasting
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The Extreme Presentation(tm) Method: Choosing a good chart
Consider which chart to use. It was inspired by the table in Gene Zelazny’s classic work Saying It With Charts (p. 27 in the 4th. ed)
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mapof.it provides a really simple way to get a map or a route without first visiting Google Maps, Multimap, Open Street Map, whatever your favourite mapping website is.
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Great collection: images, feature articles, news, global maps, activities
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CK-12 – Next Generation Textbooks
CK-12 allows one to customize and produce content by re-purposing to suit what needs to be taught, using different modules that may suit a learner’s learning style, region, language, or level of skill, while adhering to the local education standards.
CK-12 Foundation is a non-profit organization founded in January 2007. Our mission is to reduce the cost of textbook materials for the K-12 market both in the US and worldwide, but also to empower teacher practitioners by generating or adapting content relevant to their local context. Using a collaborative and web-based compilation model that can manifest open resource content as an adaptive textbook, termed the “FlexBook”, CK-12 intends to pioneer the generation and distribution of high quality, locally and temporally relevant, educational web texts. The content generated by CK-12 and the CK-12 community will serve both as source material for a student’s learning and provide an adaptive environment that scaffolds the learner’s journey as he or she masters a standards-based body of knowledge, while allowing for passion-based learning.
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Track This Now – Track articles across the world on a map
Track news articles on any topic across the world in real time. Amazing site, enter your search term and receive hits on articles about that topic from around the world, shown by pins on the global map to show you. Click the pins to see articles.
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Inaugural Words – 1789 to the Present – Interactive Graphic – NYTimes.com
A look at the language of presidential inaugural addresses. The most-used words in each address appear in the interactive chart below, sized by number of uses. Words highlighted in yellow were used significantly more in this inaugural address than average.
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Watch, Learn, Research, Teach.
What is a Nib?
A nib is a visual bookmark on a video timeline. Nibs also recommend related videos. As the Nibisphere grows, it will find more cooler stuff that makes you smarter, faster. We have a team of experts nibbing away engaging educational content.
Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.