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"Amazingly simple graphic design"

MyClassroomIdeas.com is a Pinterest-like site for teachers to discover and share pictures of classroom design elements like bulletin boards, reading corners, and door decorations. Any teacher can register and share his or her ideas with the community. If you just want to browse for ideas, there are seven galleries that you can browse through.

"Welcome!  Real World Math is a collection of free math activities for Google Earth designed for students and educators. Mathematics is much more than a set  of problems in a textbook.  In the virtual world of Google Earth, concepts and challenges can be presented in a meaningful way that portray the usefulness of the ideas."

Drag and Drop pre-designed themes and vector assets onto your canvas for easy creation and customization of rich infographics.

Get the Math is a multimedia project about algebra in the real world. See how professionals working in fashion, videogame design, and music production use algebraic thinking. Then take on interactive challenges related to those careers.

World Map is a free program developed by the Center for Geographic Analysis at Harvard University. World Map is designed to enable creation, visualization, and exploration of geographically referenced information. In other words, you can build some great mapped data visualizations on the service.

"This archive is designed as a resource for enriching your math courses and nurturing your interest and talent in mathematics! Each Math Fun Fact is a math puzzle or short article that contains a cool mathematics idea. You'll can learn about the mathematics of things like card shuffling to poker to computer vision to fractals to music, just to name a few. This makes great enrichment material for gifted math students or problem-solving groups."

Linda Darling-Hammond and others uncover the inconsistencies of Value-added models designed to rate teachers on effectiveness.  A must-read!  

"Practice, instruction, assessment, and intervention - designed for Common Core Math."

"Information is Beautiful released their visualization awards shortlist a couple days ago and if you like visual stuff you will want to check it out." Interesting from both a reading-for-information and creating/composition standpoint.

Input any text and this tool will generate professional-looking logos that can be customized, saved, and downloaded to use in different applications. Very easy!

Beyond the excellent explanations available in these animations, this site could offer great examples of technical writing/writing-to-teach that we might want to explore as useful assignments for students--even if they just designed the animation and did not produce it. Check out the hedge fund video--informative!

GoldenNumber.Net exists to share information on the pervasive appearance of Phi, 1.618 ... ,  the Golden Ratio in life and the universe.  Its goal is to present a broad sampling of phi related topics in an engaging and easy-to-understand format and to provide an online community in which new findings about Phi can be shared.  Select an area of interest below or begin with Phi for NeoPhites or the Golden Ratio Overview article.  Enjoy the 'phi-nomenon'!