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mind map of many collaboration tools

Google Map Buddy helps you create maps suitable for framing, posters, classroom hangings, desktops, et cetera.

Japanese quake map showing the 584 quakes that have occurred over the last eight days - like a time-lapse. You can pause, rewind and hover over epicentres.

Great review for geography

Learn about the geography of the world and help some people around the world at the same time with this great map game. For each answer the site's sponsors will donate money to provide money for clean water projects in some of the poorest countries. The more accurate the answer, the more money is given. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/PSHE%2C+RE%2C+Citizenship%2C+Geography+%26+Environmental

Very well done interactive lesson on map skills of hemispheres, lines of latitude, lines of longitude, prime meridian, and equator. Also has built in questions to check understanding

A map of the world showing the orginal meaning of each country's name. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/PSHE,+RE,+Citizenship,+Geography+&+Environmental

This is a great Google Map mashup from the BBC that shows things in their true size from your location. From the size of historical battles, to natural disasters, to the size of the moon. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/PSHE,+RE,+Citizenship,+Geography+&+Environmental

View historical maps as Google Earth overlays. Great now/then material for History!

Nice collection of Map tools for teachers in a Live Binder

The now infamous computer hacks infuriated consumers who had personal information compromised and Hollywood honchos who had embarrassing emails made public. But headline-grabbing computer intrusions are only a fraction of what is going on in the Wild West of cybercrime. According to Nextgov, the online resource for federal technology decision makers, energy giant BP faces 50,000 attempts at cyberintrusion a day. The Pentagon? Ten million a day. The National Nuclear Security Administration? Another 10 million. Dramatic websites from two major computer security companies, Norse Corp. (http://map.ipviking.com) and Kaspersky Lab (https://cybermap.kasper sky.com) display vivid real-time maps of ongoing cyberwarfare being waged around the globe. That has sparked a mad dash for cybersecurity experts - and another mad dash to recruit and educate students in that field.

"40 Maps That Will Help You Make Sense of the World" but you wouldn't want to use all of them in the classroom!

An interactive map and chronology of the major battles of the civil war.