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use with google maps. Collect data in a spreadsheet import the url of the data into the map visualization tool and create a visualized timeline.

"a visual search engine that displays results in 4 grids which give webpage previews. The entire page is visible in preview instead of just a list of results with links and summaries. Oolone can be used for standard website search, for image search, or news search.

This search engine is so visual it may be very helpful for some students. Check it out.

Just as the title states an exemplary guide to visual design.

this is a MUST read post if you are assessing or creating anything visual- brochures, presentations, posters etc.

data visualization sties.

Visual of how Democracy has spread throughout the world

This is a very interesting visual. Students could predict what they think will happen next in the post modern era.

Great interactive visual for doing research.

Great visual on research, appropriate for younger grades (probably best for 3-8 but could be used in HS). Though it is geared towards younger students it would be a great way to introduce research to freshmen or struggling students.

Repository of infographics

Very intereting post with a visual showing the diffusion of tweets during the Japan earthquake.

very interesting graphic and video of the power of twitter as a global information tool.

Great list of resources on infographics from the NY Times

similar to google scholar but with several enhanced features like visualizations and lists.

very interesting interactive map which shows varying data

Great visual representation of data.

"A collaborative project in which a select group of designers, illustrators, and artists create visual interpretations of the most defining moments in United States history as a way of informing others of our proud, yet sometimes troubled and forgotten past."

"...a new archive of 14,000 images from the French Revolution, created by Stanford University and the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF). The new archive contains visual materials that will intrigue scholars as much as history buffs."

"Dipity is a free digital timeline website. Our mission is to organize the web's content by date and time. Users can create, share, embed and collaborate on interactive, visually engaging timelines that integrate video, audio, images, text, links, social media, location and timestamps."

Collaborative way to create a digital timeline

"Google Earth offers the means to display geographic data from a wide variety of sources together in a geospatial context. This data includes imagery for the entire globe at varying resolutions that contains a great deal of interpretable visual information. Students can use it to find their homes, schools, and other locations that are familiar to them. They can make inferences by comparing places to other locations. In addition, students can learn about the world through rich layers of mappable data offered by Google's server and a great deal of third-party content. They can also create and display their own data."

great visual on teaching wikipedia

"Create visually compelling clips and quotes of web content that are easily embedded in blog posts,email, forums, and websites."

Another screenshot tool. It's from Mbarek so it has to be good!

Finally got around to sort out a start page - one stop shop for all my important online communities and information http://www.symbaloo.com

this could be very useful for leading students to helpful websites

"The Library of Congress presents the National Jukebox, which makes historical sound recordings available to the public free of charge. The Jukebox includes recordings from the extraordinary collections of the Library of Congress Packard Campus for Audio Visual Conservation and other contributing libraries and archives."

easy way to find music from different eras