Scrolling through things I had starred for holiday reading, I noticed that Gapminder.org has been updated.  I have blogged previously about Gapminder and the fantastic Hans Rosling, it is a fantastic tool for visualising a wealth of World data on lovely scatter graphs that animate changes through the years. Watch one of Hans Rosling’s classic TED talks to see [...]

I’ve been playing around with two tools for mapping data onto Google Maps.  They both have potential in and out of the classroom. Technorati Tags: Data, Google Doc, Google Spreadsheet, MapAList, mapping, maps, Maths, SpatialKey, visualising

Interview Reflection: Part 2: My interview lesson was rated as ‘good with outstanding features’ and as that was in part thanks to my network I thought it only fair I shared it with the World. I chose to teach a lesson focusing on data collection using questionnaires. A tricky lesson to get right I finally [...]