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In 2008 the New York Times created a great article and interactive feature about Ansel Adams's photography of Yosemite National Park. The interactive feature includes nine of Ansel Adams's photographs. When visitors click on a photograph it enlarges and a woman's voice narrates a short story about Adams's photography. In addition to the photographs there is an interactive map that displays the year in which and the place in the park where Adams took each photograph.

"Drawing on case studies from news media to visualization research, we identify distinct genres of narrative visualization. We characterize these design differences, together with interactivity and messaging, in terms of the balance between the narrative flow intended by the author (imposed by graphical elements and the interface) and story discovery on the part of the reader (often through interactive exploration). Our framework suggests design strategies for narrative visualization, including promising under-explored approaches to journalistic storytelling and educational media."

ReadWriteThink offers a collection of online Student Materials to support literacy learning in the K-12 classroom. These interactive tools can be used to supplement a variety of lessons and provide an opportunity for students to use technology while developing their literacy skills. Click on the name of each interactive for a brief description of the tool and a list of the ReadWriteThink lessons that use the tool. From there you'll also be able to directly access the tool and use it in your classroom.

Digital Nation is a multiplatform project that includes this interactive Web site and a one-hour FRONTLINE documentary to air Winter 2010. The project aims to capture life on the digital frontier and explore how the Web and digital media are changing the way we think, work, learn and interact.

Some really interesting interactive art images

Some great interactive side shows with audio. Great examples of digital narrative and multimedia journalism.

Some great interactive sideshows with audio. Great examples of digital narrative and multimedia journalism. Ehgaging materials for students. Some heavy content though so choose carefully.

VisualWikipedia is a visual, intuitive, and interactive web interface to encyclopedic knowledge/information. It is designed to provide a fun place to learn stuff in an efficient manner.

Great interactive site about Egyptian mummies in French and English

"If you're tracking several data points to see changes over time, you can create an interactive Motion Chart. "

Clickers are a great way to actively involve students in the class.

1000 images on the tip of my tongue is an interactive site focusing on idiomatic expressions that have the same meaning in French, English and Spanish, but cannot be translated word for word. This trilingual directory provides more than 1000 idiomatic phrases classified according to themes. Each of them is inserted into a short text which illustrates its meaning and contains a digital audio file. Listening to the file allows to fully understand all the various shades in the pronunciation. The site also includes exercises and games as well as brief, humorous animations which contribute to the discovery of the fascinating world of colourful expressions.

Mash your ideas and media together with friends in a dynamic whiteboard wiki. Using photos, videos, and other web content you can instantly create brainstorms, presentations, scrapbooks, and enjoy an interactive chat with more than 50 friends.

Whirled uses Google Wave to say goodbye to 2009. music by: the temper trap http://www.thetempertrap.net created by: whirled interactive http://www.getwhirled.com

The ancient tradition of storytelling meets the digital age. When students create a movie or interactive slideshow to tell their story, learning becomes personal. With digital storytelling, students can: * Improve their writing. * Show creativity. * Have a voice. Digital storytelling projects lend themselves well to portfolio assessment.

ccMixter is a community music site featuring remixes licensed under Creative Commons where you can listen to, sample, mash-up, or interact with music in whatever way you want.

Fun, interactive, research-based simulations of physical phenomena from the PhET project at the University of Colorado.

"Migrant Stories Multiculturalism is an integral part of the nation�s fabric, with 23% of the population born overseas. The migrants made Australia their home for a variety of reasons. But as they age, they sometimes face a unique set of problems not encountered by the Australia born, including isolation, language difficulties and an inability to access essential health, transport and social services. Age reporters and photographers record the views of the now elderly migrants who left homes and families as young men and women to start a new life in Australia. Click here to download the latest flash player "

Great multimedia stories about immigrants to Oz

On this web site you can: * Create your own puzzles. * Play your own and common puzzles. * Send puzzles to friends. * Put created puzzles on your web pages. Your puzzles will not be visible to other visitors (except a receiver of a puzzle sent via Send). To create a new puzzle use the easy-to-use form above. This service is free.

On this web site you can: * Create your own puzzles. * Play your own and common puzzles. * Send puzzles to friends. * Put created puzzles on your web pages.

Photos are everywhere on the web. From sharing with friends, to editing, printing, buying, selling, searching, remixing and free hosting, we've lined up a plethora of resources for photo fiends.

interesting visual, shared by Larry Ferlazzo -- have you read all of these? taught with any of these? considering teaching with any of these?