40 Maps That Will Help You Make Sense of the World
If you’re a visual learner like myself, then you know maps, charts and infographics can really help bring data and information to life. Maps can make a point resonate with readers and this collection aims to do just that. Hopefully some of these maps will surprise you and you’ll learn something new. If you enjoy this collection of maps, the Sifter highly recommends the r/MapPorn sub reddit. 1. 2. 3. 4. Pangea was a supercontinent that existed during the late Paleozoic and early Mesozoic eras, forming about 300 million years ago. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. 29. 30. 31. 32. 33. 34. 35. 37. 38. 39. 40. *Bonus* World Map Tattoo with Countries Visited Coloured
Using Images as Research Prompts to Teach Google Search Strategies
Over the last month I've shown the picture that you see to the left during a number of presentations and workshops. I've used the picture to model using pictures to spark students' minds at the beginning of lessons on search strategies. This is a strategy that I've developed by borrowing ideas from Daniel Russell's Search ReSearch activities and Dan Meyer's strategy of using videos and pictures to prompt students to ask math questions. When I show the picture to the left during my workshops (click it to enlarge it and feel to use it yourself) I simply ask people to share the questions that come to mind when they see it. All four of the questions above can be answered by using various search strategies and tools. Create your own image-based search lessons. For pre-made search lesson activities, take a look at the Google Search Education page.
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This map reflects the fact that a large number of basic values are closely correlated; they can be depicted in just two major dimensions of cross-cultural variation. ** Update ** Added supplementary data file. Each country is positioned according to its people's values and not its geographical location. To a large extent the two coincide, but the map measures cultural proximity, not geographical proximity. Thus, Australia, Canada, the U.S. and Great Britain are cultural neighbors, reflecting their relatively similar values, despite their geographical dispersion. The World Value Survey Cultural Map 2005-2008 Source: Ronald Inglehart and Christian Welzel, "Changing Mass Priorities: The Link Between Modernization and Democracy." The World Value Survey Cultural Map 1999-2004 Source: Ronald Inglehart and Christian Welzel, Modernization, Cultural Change and Democracy New York: Cambridg University Press, 2005: page 63. ** Update **
10 Google Search Tips All Students Can Use
I'm often asked for recommendations on how to help students use Google more effectively. This morning I sat down and thought about the recommendations that I make most frequently when I am asked. I wrote up my list and put it into PDF form for you to download and print if you like. A few things about the PDF. The list is not detailed (I wanted to keep it to one page) so you may have to show your students how to do some of the things on it. Techniques Google Search Star
Power Searching - TCEA's Get Your Google On
Google search operators allow you to further customize your searches to give you only the results you want. Common file extensions are shown below, including the file types in which they are classified: Office documents cpr, cwk, cws, dcx, doc, dot, fax, fp, fp3, frm, gim, gix, gna, gnx, gra, mcw, mdb, mdn, met, mpp, obd, pdf, pps, ppt, pre, prs, rtf, shb, shw, wb1, wb2, wdb, wk1, wk3, wk4, wks, wp, wpw, wp4, wp5, wp6, wpd, wps, wpt, wq1, wq2, wri, ws1, ws2, ws3, ws4, ws5, ws6, ws7, wsd, xls, xlt, docm, docx, dotm, dotx, potm, potx, ppam, ppsm, ppsx, pptm, pptx, xlam, xlsb, xlsm, xlsx, xltm, xltx Video and multimedia avi, cfb, cmv, dir, gal, m3d, mmm, mov, mpe, mpeg, mvb, qt, qtm, xtp, xy3, xy4, xyp, xyw, mpg, wmv Music and sound aif, aiff, ams, cda, dcr, dsm, idd, it, mdl, med, mid, mp3, mtm, mod, mus, nsa, ra, ram, rm, rmi, rtm, snd, stm, svx, s3m, ult, voc, wav, wow, asf Images Executables
Lesson Plans – Search Education – Google
Picking the right search terms Beginner Pick the best words to use in academic searching, whether students are beginning with a full question or a topic of just a few words. View lesson Advanced Explore "firm" and "soft" search terms, and practice using context terms to locate subject-specific collections of information on the web. Understanding search results Learn about the different parts of the results page, and about how to evaluate individual results based on cues like web addresses and snippets. Engage additional search strategies, such as generalization and specialization. Narrowing a search to get the best results Apply filtering tools and basic "operators" to narrow search results. Compare results for basic searches with ones that use operators to discover the impact the right operator has at the right time. Searching for evidence for research tasks Evaluating credibility of sources Consider, tone, style, audience, and purpose to determine the credibility of a source. Culture Culture
Crawling & Indexing – Inside Search – Google
L'exploration pour trouver l'information Nous utilisons des logiciels appelés robots d'exploration pour détecter les pages Web accessibles au public. Le plus connu de ces robots s'appelle Googlebot. Les robots d'exploration examinent les pages Web et suivent les liens qui y figurent, de la même façon que lorsque vous naviguez sur Internet. Le processus d'exploration commence par une liste d'adresses Web issues d'explorations précédentes et de sitemaps fournis par les propriétaires de sites. Des programmes informatiques déterminent les sites à explorer, la fréquence à laquelle l'exploration doit être effectuée, ainsi que le nombre de pages à explorer pour chaque site. Options pour les propriétaires de sites Web Pour la plupart des sites, il n'est pas nécessaire de définir de restrictions pour l'exploration, l'indexation ou la diffusion des pages : celles-ci sont susceptibles de s'afficher dans les résultats de recherche sans qu'aucune étape supplémentaire ne soit nécessaire.
