From yesterday’s New York Times: “Many Eyes”: a visualization tool
for statistics.
Ben Shneiderman, a professor in the computer science
department at the University of Maryland, College Park, says, “The great fun of information visualization,” he said, “is that it gives you answers to questions you didn’t know you had.”
Full story at the Times:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/31/technology/31novel.html
Squidoo (”everyone’s an expert on something”) site has a great list of links to timeline generators on the internet.
http://www.squidoo.com/how-to-make-a-timeline
Looks like “Our Timelines” site is going to be the best for generating fictional characters’ bios, but I haven’t tried them all yet.
I’m just trying this out right now, but it’s working awesomely atm.
Official Google Docs Blog: Live blogging with Docs
This is Amit Agarwal’s Google Docs Blog post on how to use GooDocs as a live blogging app.
Worked with these guys some on alpha testing; it’s an interesting concept, and one that I’ve encouraged students to try out when they have thesis-driven topic-based papers to write.
A K-12 resource for teachers, students, and parents in a — you guessed it — wiki!