Historypin

Historypin is a place for people to share photos and stories, telling the histories of their local communities.

Looks great - not sure what their business model is here...

Oblique Satellite Views

Earth at a Glance highlights some impressive obliques from 280 miles up using Planet’s SkySat constellation.

Shorthand

Shorthand claims to be beautifully simple storytelling for professional storytellers. Not sure we needed yet another Story Map platform, especially a commercial one.

Kibana

Kibana lets you visualize your Elasticsearch data and navigate the Elastic Stack. I have no idea what that means, but it looks and sounds cool.

Animated GIF

This was originally an interactive map in the NYT.

Free Courses by Anne K. Emery

Not sure how this works financially, but it seems like she's offering free self-paced courses on how to write better reports, work with spreadsheets, and data viz.

• Soar Beyond the Dusty Shelf Report in 7 Days is running right now.

'New' iPad for education

Not sure how much is really 'new' as opposed to 'new branding', but Apple Reveals A New iPad Aimed At Students is a nice review.

There is some truth here...

Just Google It!

LMGTFY (Let Me Google That For You) is great: http://lmgtfy.com/

Leaf-Out

Seen on FlowingData: Hang On, Northeast. In Some Parts, Spring Has Already Sprung.

Video Editors

I don't really do any video editing, but here's a good list and discussion of some free options: The best free alternative to YouTube Video Editor 2018: polish your clips before publishing.

Easter Island is Eroding

Easter Island is Eroding is a classic scrollable story map, showcasing all the current bells and whistles of these things.

Sit, Stay, Heel

Such a classic and so relevant to education today.

Peter Steiner, New Yorker, 25 June 1990

ICEMAP

ICEMAP is fun - animating the expansion and demise of the Fennoscandian Ice Sheet over the last ca. 35,000 years, complete with sea level and temperature. I want this for North America!

The Rise and Fall of American Cities

Seen on Maps Mania: The Alperin-Sheriff/Wikipedia population dataset - very cool in terms of the data and the presentation as a scrollable Story Map.

What to consider when creating pie charts

What to consider when creating pie charts is great and nicely-illustrated with examples. In-fact, the whole Datawrapper Academy site has some great information (regardless of whether or not you use Datawrapper).

The Energy-Water Nexus

Here's a new online tool - complete with learning activities - to explore the connections between energy, food, and water: HydroViz. The tool is described here: New Online Tool Teaches Students About the Energy-Water Nexus.

This reminds me of the great book Oil, Water, and Climate: An Introduction (by Catherine Gautier) - I hope she's working on the 2nd edition!

Global Weirding

Global Weirding is a YouTube channel with/by Katharine Hayhoe. She has become somewhat of a celebrity climate change science communicator because she is a) a real and accomplished atmospheric scientist and b) a real evangelical christian. If those seem at odds with each other have a look at her book A Climate for Change: Global Warming Facts for Faith-Based Decisions.

• Season 1 Summary (via GeoEd Trek)
• Season 2 Summary (via GeoEd Trek)

Here's her recent TEDx talk: What if climate change is real?

mPing app

Crowd-sourcing precipitation type with mPING by NOAA.

Extremes

Twine 2 and Harlowe 2

Twine 2 and Harlowe 2 are two connected tools to make games in the classroom - broadly connected to the world of Digital Humanities. Looks interesting!