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As usual the NY  Times gets it right! Great tool for creating visualizations of data. The data is from the Times articles so it's a wonderful opportunity to have students read and then create compelling visualizations of data. 

Great explanation of Voicethread and some very scaffolded examples of how we can use Voicethread in our classrooms. Lee does a wonderful job of developing a compelling reason for using Voicethread and how to accomplish your goals.

Here is a phenomenal lesson, accessible to any child who knows how to subtract, and compelling to everyone, up to and including professional mathematicians. Get a kid engaged in it, and they'll do hundreds of subtraction problems without complaint, because it's helping them solve an honest mathematical mystery. I've seen this idea discussed in math education circles, but I haven't found any references to it online, so I want to share it here.

Voicethread of an interdicsiplinary "unit plan" teachers organized around the theme of the Underground Railroad