Graphical Representation in Education

"hypercities is a collaborative research and educational platform for traveling back in time to explore the historical layers of city spaces in an interactive, hypermedia environment." Examples include Cairo Egypt.

Workshop resources and Inspiration files to use with "Thinking Maps", from Kim Bannigan in Wisconsin. Site says it's no longer being maintained, but interesting resources

"Designs for Thinking" is the group that has developed and does training for "Thinking Maps" - 8 structured semantic maps: Circle map (context), tree map (inductive and deductive classification), bubble map (describing attributes), double bubble map (compare & contrast), flow map (sequencing), multi-flow map (cause & effect), brace map (parts of a whole), bridge map (analogies)

The folks at "Information is Beautiful" re-envision how to convey bloodtest results.

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.

"Free mathematics software for learning and teaching" - appears to run in web browser or in a downloadable app.

This is a free online bibliography tool - works for websites or offline resources, unlike Diigo, which as discussed in class is only for online bookmarking.

another free "mindmapping" or concept mapping online tool - appears best for hierarchical structures