Saturday, April 4, 2015
Mount Everest
Scaling Mount Everest is a nice infographic that lets you climb the mountain (from bottom to top or vice versa) on your screen. Two similar approaches for visualizing depth or height: How Big Is Space and Journey to the Centre of the Earth.
Thursday, April 2, 2015
To PPT or Not?
This is one of these classic debates: should you provide your lecture slides to your students? The advantages are obvious, but so are the potential problems. Well, here we have a paper: Worthington and Levasseur (2015) To provide or not to provide course PowerPoint slides? The impact of instructor-provided slides upon student attendance and performance. Interestingly, they found no impact on class attendance, but an adverse impact on exam performance - presumably since the availability of the lecture slides led to decreased emphasis on note-taking during class.
I want it all!
And - for $60 per year - you can get Amazon Cloud Drive Unlimited Everything and to get you hooked you get 3-months for free. Time to throw-out these external hard disks!
Wednesday, April 1, 2015
Mapping CO2 Emissions
This map is quite interesting: Where carbon emissions are greatest is essentially a map of population density, urbanization, and industrialization, but even the major oceanic shipping routes are visible!
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