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Compare the sizes of nations, states, and bodies of water plus a social media site to find and share news articles.

A well design maths game where two jellies battle it. Practise probablity, more/less than and size comparisons questions. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Maths

IfItWereMyHome.com is your gateway to understanding life outside your home. Use our country comparison tool to compare living conditions in your own country to those of another. Start by selecting a region to compare on the map to the right, and begin your exploration.

Nice find Chris. I just shared this on Twitter and my Board teacher site.

Settle the argument of who's is truly bigger with this planet size comparison tool. View a image of each planet as it's real ratio. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Science

I find the price comparisons interesting.

Asa Spencer of the Thomas B. Fordham Institute writes in the Education Gadfly Weekly: "Traditionalists cringe, tech buffs rejoice: This latest NAEP writing assessment for grades eight and twelve marks the first computer-based appraisal (by the "nation's report card") of student proficiency in this subject. It evaluates students' writing skills (what NAEP calls both academic and workplace writing) based on three criteria: idea development, organization, and language facility and conventions. Results were predictably bad: Just twenty-four percent of eighth graders and 27 percent of twelfth graders scored proficient or above. Boys performed particularly poorly; half as many eighth-grade males reached proficiency as their female counterparts. The use of computers adds a level of complexity to these analyses: The software allows those being tested to use a thesaurus (which 29 percent of eighth graders exploited), text-to-speech software (71 percent of eighth graders used), spell check (three-quarters of twelfth graders), and kindred functions. It is unclear whether use of these crutches affected a student's "language facility" scores, though it sure seems likely. While this new mechanism for assessing kids' writing prowess makes it impossible to track trend data, one can make (disheartening) comparisons across subjects. About a third of eighth graders hit the NAEP proficiency benchmark in the latest science, math, and reading assessments, compared to a quarter for writing. So where to go from here? The report also notes that twelfth-grade students who write four to five pages a week score ten points higher than those who write just one page a week. Encouraging students to put pen to paper (or fingers to keyboard) is a start."

Standardised testing and the resultant scores are good indicators for potential learning difficulties or strengths. But they're no substitute for face to face interactions. And sometimes that one on one interaction needs an experienced hand to really pinpoint the need. I'm committed to working with Gloria as much as I can this year. If our chance meeting didn't occur, she could have spent the year only working with a teacher aide group with students with learning difficulties. We can't let the push for standardised testing, even at the diagnostic rather than school comparison level, blind us form the fact we need to get to know our students more intimately. We owe it to the Glorias in our classrooms.

useful comparison of educational developments related to webbased learning resources and importance of considering 3.0 strategies.

Thinglink image annotation in the classroom, focusing on world language applications.

"I wrote a thing last fall about massive open online courses (MOOCs, in the parlance), and the challenge that free or cheap online classes pose to business as usual in higher ed. In that piece, I compared the people running colleges today to music industry executives in the age of Napster. (This was not a flattering comparison.) Aaron Bady, a cultural critic and doctoral candidate at Berkeley, objected. I replied to Bady, one thing led to another, the slippery slope was slupped, and Maria Bustillos ended up refereeing the whole thing here on The Awl."

Richard Byrne shares his updated list of six timeline creation tools and provides a comparison chart in a Google Doc.

Comparison between our foreign war efforts vs. our foreign investment in public education.

Compare numbers with this great football themed more/less than game with 3 levels of difficulty. Play full screen at http://www.fuelthebrain.com/Game/swfs/soccer.swf http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Maths

Overview of Citation Software at MIT: Managing Your References. Endnote, RefWorks and Zotero

There's so many other options out there now...Mendeley, Qigga, etc.

comparison for BP hosting w/ reviews

Comparison of webnotes and Diigo

Very interesting comparisons of discipline, success in algebra and retention at school across race and gender. What are US governments doing about the clear gap?

New Google features - especially like the 'card' style layout for search results and the 'football vs aussie rules' comparison searches