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Archive for August 2007

Online, Interactive Student Journalism

Aug 4th, 2007 | By Eric Hoefler | Category: Education/Literacy

From Boing Boing:
These student presentations are better than anything I’ve seen from “real” news agencies and could serve as a model for the future of interactive/online journalism.
Boing Boing: Students produce the future of newsgathering
Interesting stuff from students at the college level. Could serve as great models for secondary students (or younger?), and provide some [...]



Another Stab at Teacher Salaries

Aug 3rd, 2007 | By Eric Hoefler | Category: Education/Literacy

PayScale is a service that offers salary and compensation profiles for a wide range of jobs, and they’ve just added a service called GigZig that tries to predict career paths and subsequent pay scales.1 It’s been a while since I’ve complained about financial compensation in the world of education, so I thought I’d test [...]



Visualizing Comparative Scripture

Aug 3rd, 2007 | By Eric Hoefler | Category: Folklore/Philosophy

I love it when some clever person finds a way to represent complex data in a unified, visual form. “Similar Diversity” is an exhibit that attempts to do that with the scriptures of the major world religions (courtesy of information aesthetics).

I just wish I could find a larger image so I could try to [...]