Outside the U.S.

I have personally never been on a cruise but would like to someday.   When I do I will definitely consult the advice in Arthur Frommer’s ‘Budget Travel’ magazine.   Specifically, the May 2010 issue had an interesting article, ‘50 Top Tips from the World’s Smartest Cruisers‘.  Check it out!  It is a fun read even if [...]

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I learned about the ‘The Google Public Data Explorer‘ from ResearchBuzz.org.   Very interesting!  Might be of use in the classroom or for doing a research project or paper.
In Google’s own words, the resource subtitled,’Data visualizations for a changing world’:
‘makes large datasets easy to explore, visualize and communicate. As the charts and maps animate [...]

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My daughter showed me this incredible painting that she discovered via ‘StumbleUpon.com‘.   It was posted on Flickr.com.  The poster said,
‘This is a movie of a super-cool “painting” hanging in the basement of the British Library, in London. The author has done many such paintings, but this is the best (and all the others are very [...]

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I have read that in the last week over 250 domain names (Website addresses or URLs) have been registered regarding Haiti relief and contributions.   While some of these are legit I suspect that some were just registered to distract givers away from legitimate sites.   Charity Navigator is a useful Website that helps charitable givers to [...]

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I learned about GoogleLab’s ‘Living Stories’ collaboration project with the New York Times and the Washington Post via ResearchBuzz.  I see great potential in this application.  Is this the new RSS Reader?  The new Wikipedia?   To understand ‘Living Stories’ watch the brief video on the page.
Currently, the following TIMELY stories are included:

Health Care Reform

Afghanistan War

Global [...]

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One of our teachers in my school was wanting some good material to teach a lesson on the Panama Canal.  I set off looking for materials and enjoyed the journey!  The Panama Canal is fascinating to me.  Here are some of the resources that I found (that weren’t blocked at my school - ex. YouTube [...]

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Ran across two interesting articles today and ironically they were both about the return of a book after 60 years or more later.
One of the books was a book of art compiled by Hitler for a planned musuem, the ‘Fuhrermuseum’.  The book was removed from Hitler’s home and is to be returned to Germany in [...]

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TheStar.com had a great article on the role of libraries today AND the future of libraries.  The article, ‘A tale of two countries’ libraries’, looked at public libraries in Canada and the U.S.A. to see what is working.  Here is an excerpt:
‘In a 2006 poll, 78 per cent of Americans said if their local library [...]

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