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• Moodle free tutorials! Learn from 55 easy Moodle tutorials!

  Screencast tutorials for Moodle

  tags: moodle tutorials

• Google Moderator

  I keep forgetting about this tool for getting audience input.
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  Let your audience decide
  Get to know your audience by letting them decide which questions, suggestions or ideas interest them most.
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  Everyone's voice is heard
  The voting box at the top of page focuses attention on submissions recently added and on the rise, making it simple and easy to participate.
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  Be creative
  Include people in your preparation for lectures, interviews and hard decisions or work together to organize feature requests and brainstorm new ideas.
  

  tags: google discussion

• SHOW®/WORLD - A New Way To Look At The World

  An oldie but a goodie. See the world in new ways

  tags: visualization maps data

• Real-time local Twitter trends - Trendsmap

  Check on what the world is talking about. Interesting that tweets are coming from some countries - where the government has tried to block it

  tags: twitter visualization

• JESS3™

  More excellent visualizations

  tags: visualization

• C-SPAN Video Library

  Lots of video - but you can save just the portion of the clip you want/need

  tags: visualization

• NASA Buzzroom - Home

  What are the astronauts tweeting? Want to ask them a question? Even if they're on a mission???

  tags: nasa visualization

• Project Vote Smart's VoteEasy ™

  Check out this great interactive map about the candidates. Get down to your local area. Find out who the candidates are and what their voting record is - and more

  tags: vote visualization

• Google Fusion Tables

  Check this out. Some great data charts. When you see the data, click the Visualize link above it.

  tags: visualization tables

• True size of Africa

  Check out this map of Africa to see its real size. Tell me again why we don't study Africa in school?

  tags: visualization geography mapping

• America's Richest Counties and Best Educated Counties - Education - GOOD

  Are the richest people in America also the most educated? Check out this and the MANY other visualizations on this site.

  tags: visualization data

• VizThink | All you need to know about Visual Thinking

  More on visualizing data

  tags: visualization data

• A Visual History of the American Presidency | timeplots.com

  BUY THIS POSTER!

  tags: social studies potus visualization

• Dipity - Find, Create, and Embed Interactive Timelines

  Not only can you create your own timeline, but it will show a timeline of whatever is in the news. Check it out TODAY!

  tags: timeline visualization

• Twitter Sentiment - A Sentiment Analysis Tool

  Want to find out what the sentiment of the people is regarding a particular hashtag or keyword

  tags: twitter analysis

• Mapping America - Census Bureau 2005-9 American Community Survey - NYTimes.com

  "Browse local data from the Census Bureau's American Community Survey, based on samples from 2005 to 2009. Because these figures are based on samples, they are subject to a margin of error, particularly in places with a low population, and are best regarded as estimates. "

  tags: mapping demographics statistics data

• Tracking Twitter Traffic About the 2010 Midterm Elections - Interactive Feature - NYTimes.com

  " In the final days before Tuesday’s elections, Twitter users interested in politics have increased their bursts of 140 characters. The chart below highlights the number of posts related to candidates running for governor or the Senate. "

  tags: politics data

• Learn more about the US Presidents by using Google Earth | Google Earth Blog

  Google has built a pretty neat site using the Google Earth Plug-in to show off information about all 44 presidents that we've had in the US.

  tags: GoogleEarth

Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.