Everyone can doodle. Doodling is the basis of visualization skills...or at least I think so.

Also, just cool. What visualization has stuck with you your whole life? "All 1,943 Cornell Faculty were asked to respond to the following question: Of the many charts (graph, map, diagram, table and 'other') you have seen in your life, which has been the most important, remarkable, meaningful or valuable? On the archival paper provided, they were asked to create a copy of the chart and in the remaining space annotate notable attribute of the data and the image, describe what they remembered about first seeing this image and comment on why they chose this image. All other Cornell community members are invited to share their favorite chart by visiting the display table in Mann Library near the reference desk on the first floor."

Wow- an even more complex way to look at social networks.....

Visualization of Climate change- from both perspectives

Representation of global media scares- would be cooler if it was compared to actual deaths from the purported deadliness

Ok, while you might not be able to get away with this at some schools, this is an amazing hook to let (older) kids explore the power of taking piles of data and transferring it to an infographic.

might be thought provoking as a short activity in a class. Ps....Pork floss? I had no idea either. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rousong

RAD. Infographics don't always require technology.

An interactive quiz using google earth!

I didn't know this existed! How cool!

Google MyMaps for Physics and Literature

Ooh, the best part of this is in the comments on the blog post! The readers are SERIOUS about the topic!

Okay, can't resist.

Flowing data (the site) is amazing in general, this article gives great insight into 7 rules for making charts and graphs