Reminder: Gapminder
Lisa Van Gemert, who teaches at Lamar High School in Arlinginton, Texas, recommended Hans Rosling's talk at the Technology, Entertainment, Design (TED) conference in 2006. She wrote, "Rosling is a professor of world health at a university in Sweden, and he has done amazing research and developed the software to deliver the data in an extraordinarily fascinating way."I agree and if you haven't seen it, it's worth the time to sit down and watch it. It's online at the TED web site.
Rosling uses Gapminder software for his presentation, and that creates part of the impact of his presentation. His enthusiastic explanations are also key.I wrote about Gapminder and other graphic presentation software last November in an entry titled, Seeing Statistics. Check it out if you missed it.
And here's a reminder that you can see the categorized index of over 800 teaching comparative blog entries at the blog's del.icio.us site. You can view the index as an alphabetical list or as at Tag Cloud, which is another intriguing way to portray data.
Labels: demographics, pedagogy
posted by Ken Wedding @ 5:59 AM
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