Daily Spotlight on Education 05/25/2010
Office 2010 Trial Extender Activates Office 2010 for up to 180 Days
Have the new office free for 180 days with this tool.
Does Windows 7 Make Up for Vista?
Lifehacker cites a report that says that customer satisfaction with Microsoft is "at an all time high" mostly because of Windows 7. Would be interested to hear from someone using it. I have to admit that the snapping windows look very cool.
Post Project Reflection Blog Post - grownupdigital
This student did a solid job of describing visual data analysis and shared some cool new tools that I didn't know about. I especially like the explanation of 4d mapping at the end of this.
Worldmapper: The world as you've never seen it before
Amazingly cool maps shown in so many different ways. This is a great tool for geography teachers.
Teacher information and facts on how to use google docs to import data into Gapminder to plot it yourself. Statistics teachers in middle, high school, and college may also find this very useful.
Gapminder: Unveiling the beauty of statistics for a fact based world view. - Gapminder.org
A student on netgened shared this with me based upon his topic "visual data analysis." This is an amazing repository of statistics shown in very cool ways. Great for social sciences.
Daniel's Reflective Blogpost - grownupdigital
An excellent blog post and video about augmented reality from a student on netGened. This is what a successful project looks like.
2do App for iPhone/ iTouch/ iPad
I love this app and use it to sync with toodledo! It is very useful and incredibly "beautiful." Just one of the best list managers on my itouch that I've seen.
Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.
