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