Measuring Digital Opportunity for America's Children

The Children's Partnership has released a new report, Measuring Digital Opportunity for America's Children, which looks at the ways the Internet and ICT can improve children's lives across a range of measures. The report also points out an opportunity gap, otherwise known as the digital divide, between different groups of kids.

Digital Storytelling

This site, developed at the University of Houston College of Education, is a course in itself on what digital storytelling is. It also has great stories that can be used as multimedia content for other classes.

Is this News for 2014?

This is a great take on what news might evolve to by 2014. Take a look at the video created at Georgia Tech. US News has an interesting summary and commentary on the item.

New Maps for the 21st Century

A great place to find maps these days is Google Maps. These folks have added additional features and built on top of its functionality.

An article from Forbes: Google Maps Make Demographics Come Alive

Examples

• Chicago crime database
• Citizen ICAM
• Google Sightseeing