First I played and explored YouTube some more since it was the first place video winner under 2007 Web 2.0 Awards. I have used this site before and I thoroughly enjoy it. Today I searched "babies" and saw some of the funniest laughing babies videos you could ever want to see. Someone even condensed the top three laughing babies into one video. What a hoot! YouTube's useful features are that you can search easily, see how long each video is before you view it, and see the rating for each video and how many rated it. You have to be a member to rate a video but you don't have to be a member just to view a video.
The second place winner under the visual arts category was Swivel, which rather surprised me when I explored it. It surprised me that it was under the visual arts category because it incuded much information that I didn't think was actually related to visual arts. I found the sight rather fascinating because of the factual, numerical data that included statistics and graphs! The following was one of the articles featured on the home page. Unfortunately, I cannot show you the photo or graph here, however.
Spotlight Aviators and accidents
Source: Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association
July 24 commemorates the 110th birthday of famed female pilot Amelia Earhart. She is internationally celebrated for her accomplishments as a pilot; she was the first woman to fly across the Atlantic and the first woman to fly across the US. However, she may be even more famed for her legendary disappearance in July 1937 near Howland Island in an attempt to fly around the globe. Today, most fatal accidents are caused by pilots; in 2005, pilots were responsible for 75 percent of total accidents and 83 percent of fatal accidents. This graph shows the causes for the deadliest pilot related accidents.
Source: Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association
July 24 commemorates the 110th birthday of famed female pilot Amelia Earhart. She is internationally celebrated for her accomplishments as a pilot; she was the first woman to fly across the Atlantic and the first woman to fly across the US. However, she may be even more famed for her legendary disappearance in July 1937 near Howland Island in an attempt to fly around the globe. Today, most fatal accidents are caused by pilots; in 2005, pilots were responsible for 75 percent of total accidents and 83 percent of fatal accidents. This graph shows the causes for the deadliest pilot related accidents.
I think this site could be very useful for students or anyone researching a subject where they need facts, figures and/or photos. I like statistics and graphs because they show a great deal of factual information in a relatively small space. Often times students can't find this kind of information readily but they might like to use a user friendly site such as this one.
2 comments:
Thank you for posting about Swivel. You can actually embed the pilot error graph if you click on in in Swivel and then click on the Post to Blog link below it: http://www.swivel.com/graphs/blog/21015894
You can play with options to get the graph to look right for your blog and copy and paste the HTML into your blog. Let me know if you need help with it. Hope to see you on Swivel.
Dmitry
http://swivel.com
Guess what? Your blog is actually on the front page of swivel!
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