Learning Curve is the school-focused home of Great Britain’s National Archives. I explored Crime and Punishment, pictured here. See the green, blue, and red tiles? Behind each is a question about Crime, Prevention, or Punishment for a given time period. Click on one and you’re taken to a details page that presents multiple case studies. [...]
Archive for September, 2007
(this via 43 Folders) I found this post about something called a “tact filter” on Merlin Mann’s website. The gist: “normal” people filter what they say before they say it; and “nerds” filter what they hear. All people have a “tact filter”, which applies tact in one direction to everything that passes through it. Most [...]
Personal productivity site Lifehacker has been asking people to empty their messenger bags and share a picture of their contents with the world. Their results are here, here, and here. Well, my students wanted to contribute, so here’s what’s in their backpacks. After we were done, I found myself quoting a co-worker likes to say, [...]
The Google Blog announced last week that their Gmail collaborative video is complete. Here’s the official page for Gmail: A Behind the Scenes Video. My favorite part is the Google Map where they tagged the location of each submitter. Can you believe that over 1100 videos from 65 countries were submitted between July 24 and [...]
