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Documentary List | Top Documentary Films
A comprehensive list of documentaries to //watch online//, preview and download. = = =Web Searches and Referencing= [|Web Searches and Source Referencing] [|Easybib.com]

=Statistical Tools/Interactive Maps/Information Systems =

[|News Map]
 Is an application that visually reflects the constantly changing landscape of the Google News news aggregator.

**The Big Picture - Boston.com** The Big Picture - News Stories in Photographs from the Boston Globe.

[|World Stat] -
www.worldstat.com is an educational site that gives you access to updated statistics for a fact-based education in order to ensure a greater understanding of the world without prejudice and misunderstandings. Includes Case Study activities

[|Statplanet]
 Map maker software for creating fully customizable interactive flash maps.

[|Maps]
maps of all shapes, styles, and themes

[|Indexmundi]
 Index Mundi, home of the Internet's most complete country profiles. This site contains detailed country statistics, charts, and maps

[|Gapminder World] --
 Professor Hans Rosling's revolutionary statistical visualization tool. Worth every second spent on the site media type="youtube" key="jbkSRLYSojo" height="349" width="560"

[|Geo-cube]
 Geocube is an attractive online resource about Geography. Geocube is based on the principle of the Rubik Cube with six faces and 54 topics.

[|World Mapper] --
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> World maps that shrink/blow up countries according to chosen indicators (e.g. Mandarin speakers)

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Show World]
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Learn about the world by changing the familiar map. Select a subject from the top menu and watch the map resize.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">World Freedom Atlas
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The world freedom atlas is a geovisualization tool for world statistics.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">WORLD HEALTH RANKINGS - World Life Expectancy
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The most comprehensive listing of Country Health Profiles and World Health Rankings for all leading Causes of Death ever assembled in one place....

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Data Visualizer]
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> -Data visualization tool for World Bank Stats

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|International Human Development Indicators]-
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> -Great for looking at Trends

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|World Health Organization]
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> WHO data base and visualizations

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Country keyword pages on a world map]--
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> google map linked with guardian that allows you to find country specific guardian articles (great for case studies)

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Encyclopedia of Earth]
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> An electronic reference about the Earth, its natural environments, and their interaction with human and animals

[|Population Visualizations]
= = =<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Online Collaboration Tools** =

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Zoho]
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Offers a suite of online web applications geared towards increasing your productivity and offering easy collaboration. (Like googledocs + works in China)

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Webspiration
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Facilitates every step of your project, from brainstorming and research, to content creation, collaboration and sharing.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Type with Me]
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Online Collaborative Note Taking

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">//Mind42//.com -
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Online mindmap collaboration tool. You can easily share and develop your ideas with your friends.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal;">[|Prezi]
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal;">The zooming, mindmapping, collaboration presentation creator

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal;">[|SlideShare]
Offers users the ability to upload and share publicly ppts, word documents, and pdf files

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 27px;">**Online photo pools and tools**

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">//Flickr//
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> The best online photo management and sharing application in the world.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">//Photobucket//
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Offers image hosting, free photo sharing and video sharing.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Picnik
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Picnik lets you edit all your photos online, from one easy place.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">//BeFunky.com//
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">lets you apply photo effects, enhance, edit pictures and photos online. = = = = =<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Online File Storage =

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Dropbox
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">//Dropbox// is the easiest way to store, sync, and, share files online.

= = =<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Online Surveying Tools =

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">//SurveyMonkey//
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Create and publish online surveys in minutes, and view results graphically and in real time.

=<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Online Portals/dashboard software =

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%; line-height: normal;">** iGoogle ** <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%; line-height: normal;">personalized Google page. Add news, photos, weather, RSS readers, and stuff from across the web to your page.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%; line-height: normal;">[|**__Netvibes__**] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">delivers secure, scalable personalized workspaces, portals and industry dashboards.

=Teaching Using Inforgraphs= media type="youtube" key="pLqjQ55tz-U" height="349" width="560" <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Teaching with info graphs- as start]

<span style="background-color: #000000; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">[|Data Visualized: More on Teaching With Infographics] ====<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Sources Around the Web for Interesting Infographics ==== <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">We’ve chosen one or two classroom- or kid-friendly examples from each of the following, though in some cases the graphic was made by the authors of the site or blog itself, and in others the purpose of the site or blog is simply to collect good examples from around the Web. > Example: __<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0000ff; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; vertical-align: baseline;">[|Understanding Shakespeare with Visualization] __ > Example: __<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0000ff; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; vertical-align: baseline;">[|How to Win Rock-Paper-Scissors Every Time] __ > Example: __<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0000ff; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; vertical-align: baseline;">[|International Number Ones] __ > Example: __<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0000ff; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; vertical-align: baseline;">[|The Most Controversial Books in America] __ > Example: __<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0000ff; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; vertical-align: baseline;">[|Time Travel in Popular Movies and TV] __ > Example: __<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0000ff; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; vertical-align: baseline;">[|Most Widely Spoken Languages in the World] __ > Example: __<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0000ff; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; vertical-align: baseline;">[|Who Drives Worse, Teens, or Seniors?] __ > Example: __<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0000ff; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; vertical-align: baseline;">[|The Geotaggers’ World Atlas] __ > Example: __<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0000ff; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; vertical-align: baseline;">[|BBC Dimensions] __ > Example: __<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0000ff; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; vertical-align: baseline;">[|Relative Sizes of the US Surplus and Debt] __ > Example: __<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0000ff; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; vertical-align: baseline;">[|U.S. Mood throughout the Day Inferred from Twitter] __ = = =<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|GOOD.IS] =
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">__<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0000ff; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; vertical-align: baseline;">[|flowingdata.com] __
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">__<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0000ff; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; vertical-align: baseline;">[|Information Is Beautiful] __
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">__<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0000ff; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; vertical-align: baseline;">[|Good Magazine infographics] __
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">__<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0000ff; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; vertical-align: baseline;">[|Cool Infographics] __
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">__<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0000ff; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; vertical-align: baseline;">[|The Infographics Showcase] __
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">__<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0000ff; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; vertical-align: baseline;">[|Fast Company infographics] __
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">__<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0000ff; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; vertical-align: baseline;">[|Visual Complexity] __
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">__<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0000ff; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; vertical-align: baseline;">[|Infographics News] __
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">__<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0000ff; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; vertical-align: baseline;">[|Nigel Holmes | Explanation Graphics] __
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">__<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0000ff; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; vertical-align: baseline;">[|Information Aesthetics] __

=<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|New York Times Learning Network] =

=== <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">  [|Hohli] is an intuitive, simple online chart maker. It’s incredibly easy to pick your chart type, add some data, vary the sizes and colours and see the finished chart. The finished charts are also very well designed and look great! ===

===<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">__ [|Wordle] __ lets you create word visualisations using text you enter. There are plenty of interesting designs to choose from. Enter whole books, short passages or see what other people have used. In this example, we can see the US constitution visualised ===