"Welcome to Tagxedo, tag cloud with styles\n\nTagxedo turns words -- famous speeches, news articles, slogans and themes, even your love letters -- into a visually stunning tag cloud, words individually sized appropriately to highlight the frequencies of occurrence within the body of text."
You've seen the motion graph tool. But up until now, the data exploration tool, Trendalyzer, has always been in the browser. Now you can download the desktop version, and keep everything on your own computer with Gapminder Desktop:Y
"Get notifications directly from your Blackboard Learn system with an easy-to-use browser toolbar. You'll receive regular updates of new content items, grades, discussions and announcements. And you'll save time and energy with an automatically generated set of links that give you one-click access to all of your courses."
Here, we present a web-based mapping tool designed for efficient collection of expert opinion of invasive species abundance. We use this approach to generate distribution maps of three prominent invasive plants in the southeastern United States: (1) Chinese/European privet
# Develops higher level thinking skills
# Promotes student-faculty interaction and familiarity
# Increases student retention
# Builds self esteem in students
# Enhances student satisfaction with the learning experience
# Promotes a positive attitude toward the subject matter
# Develops oral communication skills
# Develops social interaction skills
# Promotes positive race relations
# Creates an environment of active, involved, exploratory learning
# Uses a team approach to problem solving while maintaining individual accountability
# Encourages diversity understanding
"The Best Sources For Advice On Using Flip Video Cameras"
Thirty-Nine Interesting Ways* to use your Pocket Video Camera in the Classroom is a great online presentation from Tom Barrett.
7 Things You Should Know About Flip Camcorders is a good overview on using them in education.
Classroom 2.0 has a good discussion on its Forum about using Flips. I believe you can access it without being a member but, if not, it's free and easy to join.
Here's a valuable set of resources for Health Sciences education: "60 public access virtual patient cases released under a Creative Commons licence for open use and reuse. Cases were created working with subject experts in workshops across the province. Using the open-source OpenLabyrinth platform the PINE project has a research and development theme investigating common simulation, gaming and narrative patterns in educational case design. This is facilitated by the use of the Vue topic mapping toolset that allows authors to create visual representations of activities and decision making processes."
"Screenjelly records your screen activity with your voice so you can spread it via Twitter or email.
Use it to quickly share cool apps or software tips, report a bug, or just show stuff you like. "
Media Guardian: special report on the role of technology in overseas development and disaster relief
Technology is becoming easier to use and cheaper to buy. Who would have predicted that the mobile phone would become as ubiquitous as it has not only in the developed world where many people have more than one device but in the developing world as well?