Two For Tuesday 12/9/08

Thanks to my Twitter and Plurk networks for all of their suggestions today (see below)!

1. Do Something: Empowering Teenagers to Make a Difference in the World (from @JazzyJsMom)
"Do Something believes you have the power to make a difference." They provide the ideas, resources and connections to help you bring your great ideas to life. Do something lives by five guidelines, they believe, trust, celebrate, respect and value the ability of young people to change the world for the better.

2. WorldMapper: The World As You've Never Seen It Before (from @plennig)
WorldMapper contains 366 maps, all available as PDF posters, which provide a visual representation of global data. Categories include movement, transportation, poverty, housing, education, pollution and religion, among others. For example, you can view a map of worldwide secondary education spending, passenger car distribution and the increase of carbon emmisions between 1980 and 2000 (see below).


Again, thanks to everyone in my Twitter and Plurk networks who gave me suggestions. (I've saved a bunch for future posts.)

Twitter:

	JazzyJsMom @lizbdavis http://www.dosomething.org/ 5 things they believe in: Believe in teens Trust teens Celebrate Respect & Value teens scholarships 2 about 2 hours ago from web in reply to lizbdavis
	ehaygood @lizbdavis my students love this site: http://fantasticcontraption... about 3 hours ago from BeTwittered in reply to lizbdavis
	hlvanrip @lizbdavis if you haven't used www.capzles.com it is a really great tool! about 3 hours ago from TweetDeck in reply to lizbdavis
	arvind @lizbdavis http://quizlet.com would be perfect for 2 for Tuesdays. 8th graders using it to create study sets and then share with each other about 3 hours ago from TweetDeck in reply to lizbdavis
	rseneta @lizbdavis http://www.pizap.com has caused me much distraction today. about 3 hours ago from TwitterFox in reply to lizbdavis
	monarchlibrary @lizbdavis How about the Free Rice website http://www.freerice.com/ind... in the spirit of giving. about 4 hours ago from TwitterFox in reply to lizbdavis
	plennig @lizbdavis have you done worldmapper? http://tinyurl.com/yoo6hw about 4 hours ago from twhirl in reply to lizbdavis
	Durff @lizbdavis oldies but goodies? RSS Readers like pageflakes and google reader; Voicethread about 4 hours ago from web in reply to lizbdavis

Plurk:

• December 09, 2008 at 17:38 clifmims Our fam had fun calling ChaCha and asking questions as we traveled over Thanksgiving. Sparked some teachable moments and brought lots of laughs. www.chacha.com
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• December 09, 2008 at 17:45 GingerTPLC Colonial House from PBS. Kids LOVED the Interactive History page. Even my kids!
• December 09, 2008 at 17:47 kimcaise says someone plurked this yesterday or the day before - www.ala.org/gwstemplate.cfm?section...
• December 09, 2008 at 19:07 tbell says these 2 are cool tools. www.geocommons.com/ and manyeyes.alphaworks.ibm.com/manyeye... for visual analytics thru maps