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Jason Dillon

visualizing.org | Data Visualizations, Challenges, Community - 0 views

visualizing.org

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  • James Linzel on 12 Feb 14
     
    A location for students to share work.....note: gapminder!
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  • Jason Dillon on 12 Feb 14
     
    from James
  • Jason Dillon on 13 Feb 14
     
    I think graphic designers who work with museums to develop static or interactive displays are sometimes very good at thinking about how to represent information so it is visually appealing and helping to foster comprehension. We might reach out to people who do this type of work at some point to consult with students or to offer feedback on our students' work.
  • Jason Dillon on 13 Feb 14
     
    James--Should I assume from your note that you have seen Hans Rosling videos where he demonstrates gapminder? I think the Econ teacher in my previous school told me there was a way for students to enter their own data sets into the software; not sure.
Jason Dillon

Bees and Colony Collapse - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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bees ecology farming

shared by Jason Dillon on 15 Jul 14 - No Cached
  • real issue, though, is not the volume of problems, but the interactions among them. Here we find a core lesson from the bees that we ignore at our peril: the concept of synergy, where one plus one equals three, or four, or more.
  • the most sophisticated data set available for any species about synergies among pesticides, and between pesticides and disease. The only human equivalent is research into pharmaceutical interactions, with many prescription drugs showing harmful or fatal side effects when used together, particularly in patients who already are disease-compromised.
  • We discovered that crop yields, and thus profits, are maximized if considerable acreages of cropland are left uncultivated to support wild pollinators. Continue reading the main story 98 Comments Continue reading the main story Recent Comments Clyde Wynant 26 minutes ago There is no precedent in the short history of mankind for the toxic soup of chemical we all ingest from birth to death, in our food supply,... Carolyn Egeli 37 minutes ago Thank you for this thoughtful piece on the demise of the honeybees. The clear message is we have a problem the increasing use of pesticides... phyllis 58 minutes ago Bzzzzzzzzz! A very good reminder of the dying huge numbers of honeybee colonies and the also the plants they pollinate . We must always... See All Comments Write a comment A variety of wild plants means a healthier, more diverse bee population, which will then move to the planted fields next door in larger and more active numbers.
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  • Honeybee collapse has been particularly vexing because there is no one cause, but rather a thousand little cuts.
  • farmers who planted their entire field would earn about $27,000 in profit per farm, whereas those who left a third unplanted for bees to nest and forage in would earn $65,000 on a farm of similar size.
  • lesson in the decline of bees about how to respond to the most fundamental challenges facing contemporary human societies.
  • Mark Winston, a biologist and the director of the Center for Dialogue at Simon Fraser University, is the author of the forthcoming book “Bee Time: Lessons From the Hive.”
Tom Musk

Effective Oral Presentations | Learn Science at Scitable - 0 views

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oral presentations

shared by Tom Musk on 28 Aug 14 - No Cached
  • hree components
  • Verbally (and as a general rule)
  • nstead, memorize the outline of your presentation
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  • Vocally, vary the tone, rate, and volume of your voice
  • Visually, control your body
  • practice more, pace yourself, and support your spoken discourse with appropriate slides
  • non-native speaker
  • Practicing helps you identify missing vocabulary
  • Practicing in front of an audience
  • During your presentation, pace yourself
  • Pacing yourself also means speaking more slowly than you otherwise might
  • Most speakers, even experienced ones, are nervous before or during an oral presentation
  • perhaps the most effective one is to focus constructively on your purpose at all times
  • Before your presentation, eliminate all the unknowns
  • Visualize what you want to achieve, not what you want to avoid
  • Tom Musk on 28 Aug 14
     
    This is a really useful guide to effective presentations. We can use it as a primary teaching tool.
Jason Dillon

Gapminder: Unveiling the beauty of statistics for a fact based world view. - 1 views

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statistics presentation visualization

shared by Jason Dillon on 04 May 14 - Cached
  • Jason Dillon on 04 May 14
     
    teachers share resources and talk about how they use this tool with their students http://www.gapminder.org/for-teachers/#.U2bFe62SxsY
  • Jason Dillon on 04 May 14
     
    from the designer of this software: http://www.gapminder.org/donations/ Building a fact-based world view Gapminder is a non-profit foundation based in Stockholm. Our goal is to replace devastating myths with a fact-based worldview. Our method is to make data easy to understand. We are dedicated to innovate and spread new methods to make global development understandable, free of charge, without advertising. We want to let teachers, journalists and everyone else continue to freely use our tools, videos and presentations.
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