Exposing What's True

• Domain Tools: Whois Lookup and Domain Suggestions
  Domain lookup and other tools, most of which would not be useful to educator- or student-learners, but some might.

• easyWhois: Lookup Domain Whois Records and Research DNS Information
  A pretty good domain lookup site -- simpler than most.

• The Genius Index: One Scientist's Crusade to Rewrite Reputation Rules
  After two years of number-crunching in his cluttered office at UC San Diego, Hirsch had it—an invention important enough to warrant publication in the (very prestigious) Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. In his 2005 article, Hirsch introduced the h-index (named after himself, of course). The key was focusing not on where you published but on how many times other researchers cited your work. In practice, you take all the papers you've published and rank them by how many times each has been cited. Say paper number one has been cited 10,000 times. Paper number two, 8,000 cites. Paper number 32 has 33 citations, but number 33 has received just 28. You've published 32 papers with more than 32 citations—your h-index is 32.

• eyePlorer
  Search engines help you find links and documents – they require you to follow these links and open the respective document in order to access information. eyePlorer.com, powered by vionto, provides immediate access to facts. It visualizes facts as well as relationships between facts. Furthermore, eyePlorer.com allows you to collect, process and publish interesting bits of information. eyePlorer.com is a visual knowledge workbench.

• eyePlorer 'Obama'
  Our approach is inspired by current research results from cognitive science, computational linguistics and neurobiology. We aim at radically improving the way users interact with knowledge and information online. Recent studies show that human thought processes have a strong visual component and that the brain can process images significantly faster than textual information. We are convinced that it is time for innovative, interactive, visual methods of working with and discovering facts and information instead of wading through ever longer lists of documents and search results.

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Employing Information

• Protovis
  Protovis composes custom views of data with simple marks such as bars and dots. Unlike low-level graphics libraries that quickly become tedious for visualization, Protovis defines marks through dynamic properties that encode data, allowing inheritance, scales and layouts to simplify construction.

• Historical Hurricane Tracker - - MSNBC.com
  This is a very cool and highly interactive visualize of hurricanes from the 1850s to present and across the states of the US

• 20+ CSS Data Visualization Techniques | tripwire magazine
  In this article you will find more than 20 unique and worth knowing CSS Data Visualization Techniques. The techniques show in this article reallt takes CSS to a new level and even if you’re not going to visualize data you may get inspired from investigating them.

• 50+ Essential Techniques and Tools for Visualizing your Data | Graphs and Charts | Tools
  Charts and Graphs are ideal to visualize data in order to quickly give your readers an understanding of the nature of a given problem or recent developments. Whatever type of data presentation you prefer or suits you data (pie charts, bubble charts, bar graphs, network diagrams etc.), there are many different options but how do you get started and what is technologically possible?

• Earthquakes In The Last Week
  A very cool Google Maps Mashup that shows earthquakes from the last week.

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Expressing Ideas Compellingly

• Dynamic Content, Powerful ways on How to Write them
  So you’ve got a Twitter account and you tweet. You’ve joined Stumbleupon and you stumble. And you’ve built a Facebook profile and you share. But you can’t seem to get the amount of traffic you want. The problem may not be your marketing methods but your content.

• Web Pages That Suck learn good web design by looking at bad web design - biggest mistakes in web design 1995-2015
  I've gathered what I think are the biggest web design mistakes committed during the period 1995 to 2015. Yes it is a little facetious to say these mistakes will be made in the year 2015, but it's human nature to repeat your mistakes over and over. But it's human nature to repeat your mistakes over and over.

• National Gallery of Art NGAkids collage machine
  For help using the NGAkids Collage Machine, roll over the question mark (?) and hold down the mouse button. If the top of this page is blank, download Shockwave or visit the Help page for technical support. Click theprinterprinter icon to print your desig

• Snipshot: Edit pictures online
  Snipshot Extensions let you quickly import a picture from any web page while browsing. There are three flavors to choose from depending on your browser.

• Unifix Drum Machine by David Tulga
  A cool drum machine that plugs into the social psyche.

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Using Information Ethically

• Welcome | Teaching Copyright
  There's a lot of misinformation out there about legal rights and responsibilities in the digital era.
  
  This is especially disconcerting when it comes to information being shared with youth. Kids and teens are bombarded with messages from a myriad of sources that using new technology is high-risk behavior. Downloading music is compared to stealing a bicycle — even though many downloads are lawful. Making videos using short clips from other sources is treated as probably illegal — even though many such videos are also lawful.

• The Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Media Literacy Education -- Publications -- Center for Social Media at American University
  This document is a code of best practices that helps educators using media literacy concepts and techniques to interpret the copyright doctrine of fair use. Fair use is the right to use copyrighted material without permission or payment under some circumstances—especially when the cultural or social benefits of the use are predominant. It is a general right that applies even in situations where the law provides no specific authorization for the use in question—as it does for certain narrowly defined classroom activities.

• Internet Attacks Are Growing More Potent and Complex - NYTimes.com
  Attackers bent on shutting down large Web sites — even the operators that run the backbone of the Internet — are arming themselves with what are effectively vast digital fire hoses capable of overwhelming the world’s largest networks, according to a new report on online security.

• Moral Sense Test-Test Your Intuitions | Twine
  Participating in the Moral Sense Test is quick and easy, and puts you at the center of an exciting research project. Before you begin, it is important that you read the information on this page. It describes the test, the conditions under which you should take it, and how to make sure it will load properly on your computer.In this version of the test you will be presented with several moral dilemmas, and you will be asked to judge each one. Most subjects finish in 15 to 20 minutes. Please do not discuss the questions with anybody else, or consult any texts or outside material, while you are taking the test. This version of the test is for fluent English speakers only.Your participation in this test is completely voluntary. You may exit the test at any time if you feel uncomfortable with the questions.

• Media Education Lab: University-community partnership for media literacy under the direction of Renee Hobbs:
  The framers of the U.S. Constitution clearly intended that the law of copyright -- including fair use -- would be tailored to serve the advancement of knowledge. Fair use relies on four factors: the purpose of the use; the nature of the use; the amount of the use; and the effect of the use on the potential market.

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