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Tired of being a Twitter transcriptionist at conventions? Consider taking visual notes instead.

For students creating presentation or visual data. Helps reinforce digital literacy and apply high-order thinking by creating the visual data rather than merely evaluating it. 

This is a visualization engine that shows relationships between items in the Amazon Marketplace. May be an interesting method for finding books that my interest children, for example.

Information is Beautiful released their visualization awards shortlist a couple days ago and if you like visual stuff you will want to check it out.

In this set of visuals, graphic artist Gustavo Sousa uses the iconic Olympic rings to represent which continents have the most prisoners, HIV patients, McDonald's, and more. Naturally, the relative size of each ring correlates to the relevant data points. Would led to some great discussions with students.

Fantastic! Thnx for sharing.

Some great, user-friendly visualization tools to engage students and teachers.

How one teacher uses data visualizations to get students thinking!

15 Crazy Useful JavaScript Solutions for Charts and Graphs Graphs and charts are a great way to break down the information at hand to the user in a descriptive and visually enticing manner. These visual structures allow you to easily simplify complex data and output easier to understand content. Everyone can use a graph or chart, however, not everyone has the right tools to create an effective one. Below we've compiled the best JavaScript graphs and chart solutions. We chose to put a list of JavaScript graphs because of their flexibility and functionality.

VisualWikipedia is a visual, intuitive, and interactive web interface to encyclopedic knowledge/information, especially from Wikipedia.

Interesting of 'facts' and 'statistics' here - potentially useful, nonetheless, if used carefully.

Great tool for visualizing data

Visualizing data. Includes downloadable tools.

View CIA data sets with Google Earth technology. Download data sets, generate kml files, and compare areas of the world easily.

CIA World Factbook visualized interactively with Google Earth. Allows you to download .kml files for the data set of interest, as well as edit the style...wow.

CIA World Factbook visualized interactively with Google Earth. Allows you to download .kml files for the data set of interest, as well as edit the style...wow.

Below are 50 of the best data visualizations and tools for creating your own visualizations out there, covering everything from Digg activity to network connectivity to what's currently happening on Twitter.

a visual representaion of a Digital version of the new Bloom's hierarchy.

This site is designed especially with the young learner in mind with its age-appropriate content and emphasis on visual and auditory learning. Glossopedia is the kind of site that you can leave open for students to explore and find a fast fact of the day, find their favorite image, or video Glossopedia Categories Geography and Places Nature and the Environment Technology Animals Earth and Space People and Cultures Human Body Chemistry Natural Forces This site is simple and visually pleasing. The font size is great for young learners. Words are hyperlinked to an audio pronunciation that is a real person, speaking really slowly at first then more quickly, and finally the written meaning of the word. Images and photos have a print button prominently displayed.

Reading comprehension strategies. Nothing new here, but think about technology integration... esp visualizing. Pull in images into a class blog to group visualize a chapter.

Teachers from around the world share their inspiring ideas for using technology in the classroom.  These are pulled together as a presentation that teachers everywhere can benefit from.

Great visuals to inspire lesson plans. We are a visual world and students are attracted to this. Good source for creating ideas to helping student increase their learning skills

Great starting point for inspirational ideas in the classroom.

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Graduating from high school means better job prospects and higher earning potential for individuals, but what does it mean for the community or country as a whole? In partnership with NBC News' Education Nation, and using data from the Alliance for Excellent Education, Visualizing.org challenges you to visualize the projected benefits and economic ripple effects that would result from improving America's graduation rates.