The Gettysburg Address Animated

http://www.openculture.com/2010/11/the_gettysburg_address_animated.html

War Words

This is a great interactive by the Wall Street Journal that analyzes text from presential speeches about the war in Iraq:

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704271804575405320085384564.html

Visual Learning Tools Show and Tell

Here is a list of the web tools we critiqued during the 'Visualize' a Great Lesson workshop at the Just for New Teachers conference, Dec. 3.

Tripline
LIFE Timeline
ReadWriteThink Venn Diagrams
ReadWriteThink Drama Map
Wordle
Tagxedo
Glogster
Bar Grapher (NCMTM)
Worldmapper
Google Lit Trips
Many Eyes
Products of Slavery
Meausre of America
Google Maps
Primary Access


Workshop Participants: Please use the comments below to add your impressions of the tools.

Someday, you may be giving a presentation like this in your classroom

Hans Rosling's 200 Countries, 200 Years, 4 Minutes - The Joy of Stats - BBC Four

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbkSRLYSojo

Free Inforgraphic Creation Tools

10 Awesome Free Tools to Make Infographics

Is your favorite listed here?

Signal to Noise

Here's a great, brief webinar on the problem of signal-to-noise in visual presentation by presentation guru and author Nancy Duarte.
Signal to Noise from Duarte Design on Vimeo.

Presentation tips from the-scientist.com

http://www.the-scientist.com/article/display/57186/

Good round-up of interesting cognitive sicence for presenters, including this gem:

The brain likes it just right


Kosslyn calls the principle that audience members have limited capacities for the retention of information the “Goldilocks Rule.” Communication is most effective when neither too little nor too much information is presented at any one time, he says. Audience members can only typically handle four “perceptual units” (a word, phrase, or picture) at a time says Kossyln. For example, an assertion sentence (1 unit) followed by two images and one phrase (four units total) is easier for an audience to grasp and retain than a slide filled with bullet points.