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Gapminder is an online resource for comparing statistics.  It allows for you to compare human based statistics in a graphical nature and then allows you to animate it through time to see how dynamic statistics really are over a period of 200 years.  This is an amazing tool and could be used in a variety of courses.

List of global teacher resources for teaching statistical education.

For all you statiticians out there: how Hans Rosling has reached Jedi status with stats!

What an incredible fellow! I like his point about statistics being everywhere and his debunking of the Mark Twain quote about lies and damn lies. If only Data Management classes could have been this cool while I was growing up...

"Find a video and use only what you need. Make it to the point. Explain it with your voice Change the audio of the video to explain it with your own teaching approach. Record audio notes at any time to add clarifications, remarks, an introduction, conclusions, you name it. Add quizzes along the video Add questions at any time during the video to check your students' understanding. Get individualized statistics of your students, and check the effectiveness of your lesson."

"Within the decade, it will either become the norm to teach this course (high school Algebra I) in middle school or we'll have finally woken up to the fact that there's no reason to give algebraweight over statistics and IT in high school for non-math majors (and they will have all taken it in middle school anyway)."

Report on the use of media by children age 0-8