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“We’ve all heard about the colorful towns around the world, there are really lots of them and their facades are very colorful and striking. But, are there any towns that are painted in only one color? Of course there are, but they are very rare. Exactly, the following list deals with these unusual tourist destinations – a one-color towns, enjoy the article.” Pictured is Izamal, Mexico on the Yucatan peninsula.
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John Boyer (http://www.youtube.com/user/Plaidcast) uses a variety of tech tools to teach thousands of students a year. Here’s his take on Poll Everywhere.
John Boyer’s teaching style and pedagogy as seen on http://plaidavenger.com/ have merged social media technologies deeply into the classroom, including http://www.polleverywhere.com/ and other great online resources. This is the perfect example of how to create a social media classroom. I had the privilege of speaking in the same conference session with John Boyer and Katie Pritchard earlier this year and this tag-team has really shifted the pedagogical paradigm. For more in-depth blog post, see: http://blog.polleverywhere.com/professor-john-boyer-aka-the-plaid-avenger-on
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The Ocean State didn’t just place last in our overall rankings for the second year in a row, it also finished in the bottom five of four individual categories in 2012. A little Providence, please.
The business leaders and politicians in Rhode Island are working hard to attract more investment and greater job opportunities. Rhode Island’s only neighbors, Connecticut and Massachusetts attract massive amounts of venture capital compared to the Ocean State (per capita as well, so Rhode Island can’t just claim that it’s a matter of scale). With 11% unemployment (2nd worst in the country), the economic geography of Rhode Island has problems. What factors have led to this economic situation? Possible solutions?
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This map is a graphical representation of the Dashboard’s available data on foreign assistance appropriations by fiscal year. The darker a country’s shading appears on the map, the more funding that U.S. Government country office received in that fiscal year. Users can switch between fiscal years by using the dropdown box in the top right corner of the page. Users can choose a country by clicking the map or by selecting the name of the country from the drop down box above.
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An OverlapMap is a map of one part of the world that overlaps a different part of the world. OverlapMaps show relative size.
The above overlap map is the United Kingdom compared to the state of Pennsylvania. This is an very simple way to demonstrate the true size of remote places, and ‘bring the discussion home.’ This site is as simple and intuitive as it is powerful and easily applicable. This is a keeper.
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This is horribly cheesy and from an incredibly biased perspective, but it does embody how many see the organic movement (and is quite entertaining for old Star Wars buffs like me).
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Conan Heiselt on TechSmith worked with a focus group to discover what make ‘best practices’ guide for making the most engaging screencasts (videos that show a computer screen). This awesome PDF is the result.
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One of the great things about Twitter is that it’s a global conversation anyone can join anytime. Eavesdropping on the world, what what!
While many educators have been using http://popvssoda.com/ to show the linguistic regions in the United States, this is a similar map, with the added social media component. To map out these regions, the cartographer used the word choice on geo-tagged tweets as the data source. For another twitter, map, the following link shows which regions are most actively engaged on Twitter: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/06/top-countries-on-twitter_n_1653915.html
What do these regions show us? What types of regions are these?
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