Anthony Leiserowitz talks climate communication

 

Historic Streetview

 Streetview is great, but what about the past? Here are two options:

1. Chronobook is great - make sure that you zoom-in enough as photographs and entire collections may pop-up.
2. Historypin is a similar approach.

Obviously you will get a lot more results in populated urban areas.

Thunderstorms over Lake Victoria

Nice example of convection within the Trade Winds: Watching Thunderstorms March Across Lake Victoria.

Wakelet

So Wakelet is pretty hip: basically an easy and fun way to curate things that you find on the Internet. Nothing that you could not do with a blog or a Google Doc, but with a fun and intuitive interface. Here are a couple of good resources:

• Wakelet (UMass Educ Class review)
• Using Wakelet In The Classroom For Curation And Research

As with all tools like this you need to ask yourself: how do they make their money and what does that mean for my privacy and the content that I'm creating?

The Four Laws of Learning

 All the usual caveats apply, but the 4 Laws of Learning (and How to Follow Them) is very helpful, for example for new college/university faculty who may have never had any training in pedagogy.

University COVID Models

 Yep - common sense seems to be missing from many of these 'Safe' Opening Plans...

Turnitin = Evil

 That's the synopsis - more details here: A Guide for Resisting Edtech: the Case against Turnitin

Would you upload your paper to a commercial website with these terms of service:

"Any communications or material of any kind that you e-mail, post, or transmit through the Site (excluding personally identifiable information of students and any papers submitted to the Site), including, questions, comments, suggestions, and other data and information (your “Communications”) will be treated as non-confidential and nonproprietary. You grant Turnitin a non-exclusive, royalty-free, perpetual, world-wide, irrevocable license to reproduce, transmit, display, disclose, and otherwise use your Communications on the Site or elsewhere for our business purposes. We are free to use any ideas, concepts, techniques, know-how in your Communications for any purpose, including, but not limited to, the development and use of products and services based on the Communications."