Max Kiesler - Designer, SOMA San Franciso

Visual Understanding Environment
At its core, the Visual Understanding Environment (VUE) is a concept and content mapping application, developed to support teaching, learning and research and for anyone who needs to organize, contextualize, and access digital information. Using a simple set of tools and a basic visual grammar consisting of nodes and links, faculty and students can map relationships between concepts, ideas and digital content.
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Interactive Periodical Table I've always had trouble understanding the relationship of the elements in the periodic table. This application gives you an understanding of the how those relationships are made. This learning visualization was developed by Adams Brian of Touchspin Design, and is an aid to his own understanding and that of his students. While this is not a new visualization I always like to highlight learning based design. This is a great example. Thanks to Adams and Touchspin.
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Visualizing Cultures - Image Driven Scholarship Image driven scholarship is a lofty goal, however, MIT's Visualizing Cultures has created a wonderful visual learning space. I spent quite some time tonight going through the site and throughly enjoyed it. As they state, " Visualizing Cultures was launched at MIT in 2002 to explore the potential of the Web for developing innovative image-driven scholarship and learning. The VC mission is to use new technology and hitherto largely inaccessible visual materials to reconstruct the past as people of the time visualized the world (or imagined it to be). I love the idea and the site, however, the top drop-down menu at the top of the page started to bother me over time. Since this is the main navigation for the site it might be nice if it was a breadcrumb rather than a poppy drop-down. I still like the site very much.
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Learning AJAX & Javascript by Example - Tutorials, Source-Code and Documentation
I learn the best by example, so I read about, and try, as many AJAX and Javascript examples as I can find. Below you'll find a short list of the AJAX tutorials and examples that I've seen recently. They have all been organized by category with the exception of the "General" category which includes some example that didn't lend themselves to a vertical. Please let me know through email or a comment if you know of any other great AJAX tutorials, and I'll be glad to post them. Also special thanks to all of the folks who produced all of these great free learning experiences.
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