Science education should look like science.
A beautiful typographic video of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights put out by the Human Rights Action Center:
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights from Seth Brau on Vimeo.
It amazed me how large a percentage of the world doesn't enjoy the basic rights set forth in this declaration. In fact, even the United States may not allow for its citizens to enjoy all the rights laid out by the declaration.
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Video from vimeo :: via NOTCOT.org
While I'm not sharing these with my students anymore (yahoo for summer!), I'm still finding good stuff that I'm tucking away in my personal files. Here's a sampling of sites that made me SSOL (say "sweet!" out loud):
Part of the Boston Globe's online space, The Big Picture posts amazing high quality images of recent events.
Particular posts I found moving/incredible/inspiring:
I only recently realized there's this culture of utilizing typography in a wide variety of artistic ways. Some of my favorites:
The art of using spoken text to create animated text which extends, adds to, or changes your perception of the original text.
This short animated video utilizes only letters, numbers, and symbols right off the keyboard to tell its story.
I just ran across this yesterday thanks to BoingBoing.net. It's a graphical depiction of the United States federal discretionary budget (i.e. where you income taxes go). Incredibly detailed yet incredible to look at, it's quick way to visualize the priorities of the government based upon how they fund the various departments. You can zoom and pan around the image at their site to get a better look. If you really like it, you can buy it as a 24-inch by 36-inch poster (that's roughly 61-cm by 91-cm for those world citizens out there).
Wow! SSOL!
