PIPA/SOPA were shelved last week in The United States. In reading up on it, I began to realize that this is a discussion that is valuable not only for educators and students but also for everyday citizens, whether American or otherwise. Clay Shirky gives an interesting TEDTalk about the ramifications of media industry’s influence over what seems to be inevitable in global legislation regarding copyright violation.
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The URL: http://www.ted.com/talks/defend_our_freedom_to_share_or_why_sopa_is_a_bad_idea.html

Here’s a followup to yesterday’s visualization chart. TeacherVision has an extensive collection of printable Graphic Organizers – organized into different categories. They all download in PDF format for easy opening/printing. You can also use your favourite search engine to search for other collections of “Graphic Organizers”.
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The URL: http://www.teachervision.fen.com/graphic-organizers/printable/6293.html

This uh, visualization…, from visual-literacy.org is a handy reference that collects many visualization methods and organizes them in the familiar periodic table format. Categorized into data, information, concept, strategy, metaphor, and compound areas, a viewer hovers over each ‘element’ and a popup displays an example of what that method looks like. I think you may be surprised to see how many elements are in common use in our work.
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The URL: http://www.visual-literacy.org/periodic_table/periodic_table.html