"new online project will let you 'pin' historic photos to images on Google Streetview giving you a snapshot of that particular location throughout history. "

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beautiful Ideas, issues, knowledge, data - visualized! See what you thin

Mr. Yunus was in the introduction of this Google Europe session. There is a speech by Hans Rosling where he discusses statistics in an interesting, enticing way to draw his students and the public into the conversation of the rest of the world...who live in squalor and poverty.

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Karen Bennett's blog; creator of pictureitsolved.com; many uses for non-linguistic representations

a .pdf template using the Vee diagram concept map; can enter your own terms and print

concept mapping as assessment tools; instructional strategies, including Gowins Vee diagram

explains various uses for concept mapping in mathematics, including Gowin's Vee Diagram

3 column, black headers with white background and gray boxes for widgets; minimalist for blogger

It seems to me that the increased communication capacities when using audio and video, as well as sharing links and screenshots make Skype one of the best free web applications to improve student access to teachers and their learning.

Skype techniques that belong to the Anticipation Reaction learning strategy family.

self-checking, a type of feedback, is discussed in this excellent posting for teachers and students.

ten resources for detecting plagiarism and teaching students to avoid plagiarism

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Don't have to wait any longer! Gapminder has been developed as a widget in iGoogle. Use your data in a dynamic way that you never imagined before.