Graphical Representation in Education

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

Okay, can't resist.

Copy of an old (1989) article about what graphic orgranizers are. It is interesting to see them 'newsworthy' 21 years ago knowing how popular they are now. The article itself includes many organizers.

Comparison of major league baseball teams' wins and payroll spending over the past 10 years. No surprise--Yankees spend the most and win the most games. But there are some interesting trends.

A YouTube Video that explains Betty's Brain

Google MyMaps for Physics and Literature

As described by Tufte, sparklines are "intense, simple, word-sized graphics". Question: are there specific types of educational content/subject areas that are most amenable to the use of sparklines?

The website of "data journalist" David McCandless. Really solid design and informative infographics.

"A graph depicting the social network of the Flickr community"

a combination of digital storytelling with geographic information

"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)

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

This map features green connections and community resources linked to CHERP. CHERP is the Campus Honors Environmental Research Program at the Pierre Laclede Honors College, University of Missouri - St. Louis. CHERP is a series of urban ecology courses, a platform for environmental sciences research, and a home for transformative activities as part of the Campus Ecology movement.

"ESSENCE seeks to build collaborations between individuals and groups with expertise or a view to share on some aspect of climate change, and software development groups who have Web platforms they want to see tested. On the wiki Tools pages, you'll find introductory profiles to each of the Technology Groups who are participating in this experiment. Check them out, indicate your interest in trialling their tool if you can, or get in touch with them direct to find out more." Includes "Cohere", "Compendium", "Debategraph", "Deliberatorium", "TruthMapping", "Debatewise", "CoPe_it!", and "Argumentations"

From the site: Debategraph helps groups collaborate in thinking through complex issues by building and sharing interactive maps of domains of knowledge from multiple perspectives.

for class "Teaching & Learning With Technology: Graphical Representation Tools"

"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.

Took me a while to parse this, but sort of interesting.