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ITSC 2012: Data Visualization in the Classroom with Diana Laufenberg

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Here are the resources from her blog:
http://laufenberg.wordpress.com/keynotespresentations/learning-visually/

More creation tools- to play with data sets
manyeyes:  http://www-958.ibm.com/software/data/cognos/manyeyes/
if you want to put your own data on you have to log in, but you can use the data that is already presented
her example is using 2008 voter data

another cool site using data about state of the union speeches
http://stateoftheunion.onetwothree.net/

For PC users:  She loves: tableau 7.0
www.tableausoftware.com/public

create a graph for elementary students with data sets that they are familiar with and accessible
http://nces.ed.gov/nceskids/createagraph/default.aspx

There are forums on flowing data to discuss data:  http://flowingdata.com/

Be sure to check out her blog.  You can contact her that way as well.
http://laufenberg.wordpress.com/