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WHY BOTHER???

• It is grounded in standards
  • Texas TEKS: http://ritter.tea.state.tx.us/rules/tac/ch126toc.html
  • California: http://www.cde.ca.gov/ci/ct/sf/documents/ctestandards.pdf
  • AASL Standards: http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/aasl/guidelinesandstandards/learningstandards/standards.cfm
  • ISTE Standards: http://www.iste.org/AM/Template.cfm?Section=NETS
• Standards aside, students need to know!
  • News Literacy: http://bit.ly/newslit
• According to EDUCAUSE, Visual Literacy is one of the TOP FIVE TEACHING AND LEARNING CHALLENGES FOR 2009! We had better hurry! Only a couple more months to get it done!!! http://www.educause.edu/eli/Challenges
• It is exciting and fun with huge WOW factors!

OVERVIEW

• Media Literacy: http://www.medialit.org/pdf/mlk/01_MLKorientation.pdf
• Periodical Table of Visualization Methods: http://www.visual-literacy.org/periodic_table/periodic_table.html#
• Found at 10 PM last night! Google images to go with site above, Periodical Table. This gives examples of every tool! How great is that??? http://www.cems.uwe.ac.uk/xmldb/rest/db/Visualization/showAll.xql
• Twelve Essentials for Visual Literacy: http://bit.ly/12essentials
• Creative Glossary: http://www.creativeglossary.com/index.php
• News Sites
  • News Dots--I found this last spring and thought it was very interesting, and it was just shared via Resource Shelf/Gary Price: http://slatest.slate.com/features/news_dots/default.htm
  • Newsmap: http://newsmap.jp/
  • Ten By Ten: http://www.tenbyten.org/10x10.html
• Museums, Libraries, and Galleries
  • National Archives Digital Vault--Oh how I love this site!! http://www.digitalvaults.org/
  • Other Favorite: Brooklyn Museum Tagging Projects and other collaborative resources
    • Tag You're It: http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/tag_game/start.php
    • Freeze Tag: https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/freeze_tag/start.php
  • STEVE--The Museum Social Tagging Project: http://www.steve.museum/
  • MOMA, NYC Museum of Modern Art--many pages including: http://bit.ly/momacollect
  • LACMA--Los Angeles County Museum of Art: http://collectionsonline.lacma.org/mind
  • Metropolitin Museum of Art/ Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History: http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/
  • For Art students/buffs: Prado Museum: http://www.spanisharts.com/prado/elprado.htm
  • Universal Leonardo: http://www.universalleonardo.org/
  • Museum of TV History: http://www.mztv.com/
• Timelines
  • nu-real : a timeline of fantastic photomontage and its possible influences, 1857 - 2007: http://www.d-log.info/timeline/index.html
  • BBC British History Timeline: http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/interactive/timelines/british/index.shtml
  • World History--HyperHistory Online: http://www.hyperhistory.com/online_n2/History_n2/a.html
  • Classic Motown Timeline: http://classic.motown.com/timeline/
  • Big list of Timelines: http://www.math.yorku.ca/SCS/Gallery/timelines.html
  • Timetoast-Nifty timeline maker! To see/print chart, disable java and reload your product: http://www.timetoast.com/
  • OK OK I know I need to stop...but wait! Here is a Timeline of Timelines! http://www.cabinetmagazine.org/issues/13/timelines.php

• Creative Applications with Wide Application
  • Wordle: http://www.wordle.net/
  • Webspiration is free! Maybe I am only person in world who did not know this! Fantastic tool! http://www.mywebspiration.com/
  • Mindmeister--free mind mapping application: http://www.mindmeister.com/
  • Huge list!! Found days before presentation! DiRT, Digital Research Tools!
    • Main site: http://digitalresearchtools.pbworks.com/
    • Data Visualization tools: http://digitalresearchtools.pbworks.com/Data+Visualization
  • http://digitalresearchtools.pbworks.com/Data+Visualization
  • Create a Graph: http://nces.ed.gov/nceskids/createagraph/default.aspx
  • Big Huge Labs: http://bighugelabs.com/
  • Konfabulator: http://www.widgetgallery.com/
  • CoolText: http://cooltext.com/
  • Specific Examples at work in schools
    • Mr. Olejarz, Eisenhower Middle School, Wyckoff, NJ: http://www.wyckoffschools.org/eisenhower/teachers/olejarz/digitalimaging/index.html
    • Taking a Digital Walk: http://vr.woisd.net/users/cranfordp/weblog/663b6/Taking_a_Digital_Walk.html
  • Photographic Dictionary--Another one I love! http://www.thephotographicdictionary.org/home.html
  • This blog post is about how images can mislead, including graphs: http://www.joiningdots.net/blog/2006/01/misleading-pictures.html
  • This might have promise, found last night...Mural Maker! http://www.cems.uwe.ac.uk/xmldb/rest/db/Visualization/showAll.xql

  • Stat Planet--Create Interactive Maps! http://www.sacmeq.org/statplanet/StatPlanet.html

  • Google Literary Trips: http://www.googlelittrips.org/
  • Flash Earth: http://www.flashearth.com/
  • World Press Photo Contest Archive--database of amazing photographs. Students must attribute but...very compelling images: http://www.archive.worldpressphoto.org/
  • Use tagging for Reader's Advisory: http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6700362.html

  • Word Fun

    • Wordle

    • Word Sift--Similar to Wordle with added features! http://www.wordsift.com/visualize

• Subject Oriented
  • Science
    • Sea Monsters Interactive Timeline by National Geographic: http://www.nationalgeographic.com/seamonsters/timeline/index.html#introduction
    • Discover Data Porta from San Diego Supercomputer Center--this resource requires a bit of digging but has some very cool resources!l: http://education.sdsc.edu/discoverdata/
    • Bugscope: http://bugscope.beckman.illinois.edu/
    • Virtual Microscope: http://virtual.itg.uiuc.edu/
    • Just found this today via Curriki! http://www.visiblebody.com/Tour_what_is_it
  • Art
    • Visual Thinking Strategies--This program is highly praised by educators: http://www.vtshome.org/
    • Musems and galleries listed elsewhere on page.
  • Language
    • Wordle and other similar resources listed elsewhere on page.
    • Visual Thesaurus (fee based, free trial provided): http://www.visualthesaurus.com/
    • VisuWords--Free Graphical Dictionary! http://www.visuwords.com/
  • Math
    • Create a Graph--link below
    • National Library of Virtual Manipulatives: http://nlvm.usu.edu/en/nav/vLibrary.html
    • Gallery of Data Visualization: http://www.math.yorku.ca/SCS/Gallery/
  • History/Social Studies 
    • Maps, especially Google Maps and Tools
    • Here is a good blog with resources: http://blogs.uit.tufts.edu/id/2006/11/fridays_pick_teaching_history.html
    • Timelines
    • Museums
    • National Park Service, Historical Sites, etc.
    • The Object of History--National Museum of American History: http://objectofhistory.org/
    • Follow Historyplot on Twitter! http://twitter.com/historyplot

• DON'T FORGET BOOKS:
  • Help Me, Mr. Mutt! by Stevens and Crummel
  • How Much is a Million? Schwartz and Kellogg
  • List at this site: Math Concepts + Picture Books = Reading Fun: http://library.springbranchisd.com/sbisd_library/math_books.htm

• Resources NOT specifically linked or discussed at length. Also, they are so many-faceted that each could be a presentation in and of itself--I thought these self evident but if they are not ones you use, do search them out!
  •  Microsoft Office Tools and Tips
  • Google--Google Earth, Google Math, Google Tools in general and UPCOMING NEXT WEEK GOOGLE SONG SEARCH (I know I digress but this is exiting!
  • Creative Commons--I mention it but do not attempt to cover fully
  • Flickr and similar services
  • Video--I limited this to still images and their presentations

• SUCCESSFUL SEARCH TERMS
  • Data visualization
  • Visual literacy
  • Timelines
  • Digital images/imagery
  • You will get more resources than I can list here!!!

• FUN
  • SnapShirts--Put your word cloud on a T-Shirt:  http://www.snapshirts.com/index.php
  • Eye Candy
    • Dutch site: http://producten.hema.nl/
    • Weiman-Kennedy Advertisers: http://www.wk.com/
  • Women in Art Morphing Video: http://inkan.blogspot.com/2008/02/women-in-art-morphing-video.html
  • Twitter
    • Twitterfall: http://twitterfall.com/
    • Twittervision: http://beta.twittervision.com/
    • Twitscoop: http://www.twitscoop.com/
  • Five Beautiful (?) Social Media Videos: http://mashable.com/2009/04/14/data-visualizations-social-media/
  • Watch time go by--Timeline: http://home.tiscali.nl/annejan/swf/timeline.swf
  • Nancy Pearl at my Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/forwhomthebelltold/