Class Thursday, November 1, 2012

1. Happy (belated) Halloween!

Halloween pug

2. Google has put together an online resource to provide information about Hurricane Sandy and its aftermath. Google has pulled information from a variety of sources- the National Hurricane Center, Red Cross, weather.gov, NYC government, Storyful, and the US Naval Research Laboratory, among others.

NYC map- http://google.org/crisismap/2012-sandy-nyc

Eastern seaboard map- http://google.org/crisismap/2012-sandy

Google.org blog

According to the New York Times, Google also did a similar project for Hurricane Katrina and set up a “person finder” after the Japanese earthquake

3. Your next class project is right here.

4. I won’t be here tomorrow. You will likely have a substitute teacher. You will continue to work on your voter information webpages. Please do the best you can. I will be back Monday and can help with any questions or issues.