Mapping America: Every City, Every Block

Mapping America: Every City, Every Block http://projects.nytimes.com/census/2010/explorer

The New York Times offer these maps, based on 2005-2009 Census Bureau's American Community Survey.

Classroom idea:  These would be great for Civics and Economics classes, discussing voting patterns as related to other factors.

Brain Games

 http://www.proprofs.com/games  Easily created embeddable crosswords, etc

Classroom Idea.  These are easily embedded into Moodle or another website and could be used as vocabulary refresher. A language class could build multiple crosswords based on theme - weather, home life, etc.

WolframAlpha widgets

WolframAlpha widgets. Fun and interesting. I love the historical weather ones, too.

http://developer.wolframalpha.com/widgets/gallery/featured/ Widgets

Trulia Hindsight

Trulia Hindsight http://hindsight.trulia.com/map/#lat=38.342&lon=-95.273&zoom=4&mix=0.500

  Here is a site that allows visualization of how cities actually developed.  

Classroom ideas -  I can see using this in history and literature classes. How developed was Long Island in Jay Gatsby’s day? What was pre-war Los Angeles like?

Tubechop

Tubechop  http://www.tubechop.com lets you select start and end points on youtubes so you don’t have to show entire video.

Gapminder

Gapminder http://www.gapminder.org/ From their website “unveil the beauty of statistical time series by converting boring numbers into enjoyable, animated and interactive graphics.” Visualize statistics and data.

Classroom idea:  Great for  comparative studies. This site has a learning curve, but the presentations you can make really bring data to life.

Video Ant

Video Ant http://ant.umn.edu/ Video annotator – analyze and annotate videos you and students find (or make). Works on flv files.

Classroom idea : Give students step by step critiques of video projects.