Learning About The Haiti Earthquake

Larry Ferlazzo, created a list of resources to learn about the earthquake in Haiti.

This are just some of the sites he included on the list. If you want to check the rest of themjust go to his blogsite.

A Tent in Port-au-Prince is a panoramic view of life inside a tent for a Haitian family. It’s from The New York Times.

Eyewitness in Haiti is a slideshow from LIFE.

Haiti: Three Weeks Later is from The Boston Globes’ Big Picture.

The New York Times has posted a panoramic view inside the devastated Cathedral in Haiti. You can certainly get a sense of the strength of the earthquake by looking at it.

Two new infographics just came out showing which countries are giving how much to help victims of Haiti’s earthquake:

One is from the British newspaper The Guardian and is quite easy to understand.

The other is from GOOD Magazine and looks far cooler, but the information is not particularly accessible (at least to me).Stephen Downes also points out that Canada’s sizable contribution is not included in it.

Major Earthquake Hits Haiti is a collection of all Washington Post photos on the disaster. The Post also has a special page on the quake that’s regularly updated.

Hope for Haiti Event Raises Millions is a Breaking News lesson for ELL’s.

CNN has an incredible 360 degree video from Haiti. I have never seen a 360 degree video before. Thanks to Jerry Swiatek for the tip.

The Big Picture has The Faces of Haiti.

Here’s a good interactive map.

The BBC has a very interesting interactive map and information on relief supplies getting to the island.

Tchaikovsky’s Piece by Phones

Sony Australia smashed a PS3 slim into a Bravia LCD TV at high speed. Now, Vodafone NZ hired a production team to orchestrate cellphones into “playing” Tchaikovsky’s 1812 overture.

The effort took 1000 phones and 53 different ringtone alerts, synchronized to recreate the famous classical piece. The resulting video is nothing short of amazing; you can also see the “making of” videos below.- by Stan Schroeder, Mashable.com

Join Us on Blog Action Day for the Climate, on Thursday, October 15, 2009

Blog Action Day 2009 revolves around climate change. On Thursday, October 15, 2009, bloggers from around the world will write about topics related to managing climate change and protecting the environment.

The Best Ways To Keep-Up With Current Education Issues

Always the Best from Larry Ferlazzo's Blog.

Maps of Swine Flue Outbreack

Shared by Google Earth Blog

Google Maps Mania is a blog site that has lots of incredible google maps.

This time, they shared the Maps of Swine Flue Outbreak. This maps show an overall impression on how the outbreak is spreading.

Other Swine Flue Resources:
The Best Sites For Learning About The Swine Flu Outbreak
A Visual Guide to Flu Pandemics
Flu Fears Dissipating In Mexico City
Public Health Campaigns: A Fine Line Between Informing And Alarming.

Sketchbooks in Schools

I read about this website in the the art teacher's guide to the internet blog.

Sketchbooks in Schools aims to promote the creative use of sketchbooks in schools through this co-created conversation space managed and directed by AccessArt. Is going to be directed at teachers in the UK but as written by Craig Roland- I’m sure teachers elsewhere who are using or considering using sketchbooks with their students will find this site of interest.

High School Venezuelan Musicians

They broadcasted 13 days ago at TED2009 via satellite from Caracas.

The Teresa Carreño Youth Orchestra contains the best high school musicians from Venezuela's life-changing music program, El Sistema.

The Teresa Carreño Youth Orchestra (Sinfónica Juvenil Teresa Carreño) is the national high school age youth orchestra of El Sistema, Venezuela's groundbreaking, life-changing musical education program. To put this ensemble's musicianship in context, the Simón Bolívar Youth Orchestra of Venezuela is the next step for many of these young musicians.

10x10

10x10 is a great way to visualize what words mean in pictures.

Every hour, 10x10 collects the 100 words and pictures that matter most on a global scale, and presents them as a single image, taken to encapsulate that moment in time. Each hour is presented as a picture postcard window, composed of 100 different frames, each of which holds the image of a single moment in time.

Every hour, 10x10 scans the RSS feeds of several leading international news sources, and performs an elaborate process of weighted linguistic analysis on the text contained in their top news stories.

10x10 was designed and developed by Jonathan Harris.

Finding Dulcinea

Considered the Librarian of the Internet, this website provides you with safe and most recent information in every topic you want. You may find information on any of the 3 sections of the website:

WEB GUIDES: 550-plus Web Guides contain meticulous research and insightful annotations on hundreds of topics, from the very general to the most specific.

BEYOND THE HEADLINES: Each news article in this section provides background and context to news headlines, including historical, academic and local perspectives.

NETCETERA: The feature articles in Netcetera showcase interesting topics, helpful resources and provocative ideas in a magazine-like format.

If you are looking for information in Spanish you may want to visit the Spanish version encontrando a dulcinea.




Site Toor:

24 hours in pictures

"24 hour in pictures" is a section from the guardian.co.uk online newspaper. In this section you will find a selection of the best pictures around the world.