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We are offering partners the opportunity to guest blog on the Alliance's blog, High School Soup, about promising practices, ideas, and a message supporting the efforts and intent of Digital Learning Day.  Our blog is the most-visited section of the Alliance website and has already received over 750,000 hits this year to date, making it a great way to reach out to a wide K-12 audience. If you are interested in getting on the blog schedule, contact us.

Information graphics, visual representations of data known as infographics, keep the web going these days. Web users, with their diminishing attention spans, are inexorably drawn to these shiny, brightly coloured messages with small, relevant, clearly-displayed nuggets of information. They're straight to the point, usually factually interesting and often give you a wake-up call as to what those statistics really mean.

This is a great presentation. If you want to see how the best thinkers in the world are presenting their data, then take a look at this presentation by Hans Rosling. I think this presents a challenge to math teachers to have students look at data differently than we are now. I think the data on the income and child mortality rate is incredible. Such a powerful data set and it's a linear relationship!!

Powerful topic, poverty and patterns in data relationships over time, WOW. Hans Rosling uses some incredible statistical software to present the data, but the idea can be mimicked using some PP type technologies and creating graphs. The topic of poverty is explored in a very easy understandable way; I think high school students would understand the topic and love the idea. Make sure you listen to his use of the databases, and remember he is one of the premier statisticians in the world. He is changing how he presents data, and I think we need to listen to his message on this topic.

Voxopop talkgroups are like message boards that use voice instead of text.. Used by educators all over the world, they are a fun, engaging and easy-to-use way to help students develop their speaking skills. No longer confined to a physical classroom, teachers and students of oral skills can participate from home, or even from opposite sides of the planet! Anywhere. Anytime. 

Wiggio is an easy way to communicate and work in groups; provides group email, text, and voice messages, host web meetings, conference calls, and chatrooms; keep a shared calendar; store/edit files; poll the group; and keep track of group tasks. 

Wiffiti publishes real time messages to screens in thousands of locations from jumbotrons to jukeboxes, bars to bowling alleys and cafes to colleges. You can interact with Wiffiti from your mobile phone or the web.

Group texting site. Create a group and text everyone in one single text. 

Free video chat and video mail to anyone in the world without downloads or hassles. Video call your AIM, MSN, GMail and Yahoo buddies. Send video mail to any e-mail address.

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