10 Awesome Free Tools To Make Infographics
Advertisement Who can resist a colourful, thoughtful venn diagram anyway? In terms of blogging success, infographics are far more likely to be shared than your average blog post. This means more eyeballs on your important information, more people rallying for your cause, more backlinks and more visits to your blog. In short, a quality infographic done well could be what your blog needs right now. Designing An Infographic Some great tips for designing infographics: Keep it simple! Ideas for infographic formats include: Timelines;Flow charts;Annotated maps;Graphs;Venn diagrams;Size comparisons;Showing familiar objects or similar size or value. Here are some great tutorials on infographic creation: Creating Your Infographic Plan and research.If required, use free software to create simple graphs and visualisations of data.Use vector graphic software to bring these visualisations into the one graphic. Free Online Tools For Creating Infographics Stat Planet Hohli Creately New York Times Many Eyes Wordle
What Does It Mean to Be Well Educated?
March 2003 What Does It Mean to Be Well-Educated? By Alfie Kohn No one should offer pronouncements about what it means to be well-educated without meeting my ex-wife. So what do you make of this paradox? Of course, if those features describe what it means to be well-educated, then there is no dilemma to be resolved. Or what about me (he suddenly inquired, relinquishing his comfortable perch from which issue all those judgments of other people)? The issue is sufficiently complex that questions are easier to formulate than answers. 1. 2. 3. To cast a skeptical eye on such claims is not necessarily to suggest that the term is purely relativistic: you like vanilla, I like chocolate; you favor knowledge about poetry, I prefer familiarity with the Gettysburg Address. 4. Seat time. Job skills. Test scores. Memorization of a bunch o’ facts. Look more carefully at the superficially plausible claim that you must be familiar with, say, King Lear in order to be considered well-educated. 5. 6.
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Sam Gosling - Snoop: The Secret Language of Stuff
Bio Orli Cotel As the host of Sierra Club Radio, Orli Cotel has conducted more than 300 interviews with leading opinion makers, activists, CEOs and politicians -- ranging from Thomas Friedman of the New York Times, to Indigo Girls' singer Amy Ray. Cotel first joined the environmental movement as a grassroots activist, running campaigns in New Orleans, Lake Tahoe, Cleveland, and Philadelphia. She later became the Sierra Club's National Publicist, searching out the most captivating environmental stories and heroes and pitching their tales to top media outlets. Born and raised in Manhattan, Cortel got her start in radio as a child, recording jingles and voice-overs for national commercials. Sam Gosling Sam Gosling, Ph.D., is an associate professor of psychology at the University of Texas at Austin. To download this program become a Front Row member. ZOOM IN: Learn more with related books and additional materials. Encyclopædia Britannica Article consumerism consumerism on britannica.com
Integrating Infographics into the iClassroom
So TechChef4U has caught the Infographics Influenza! Being a bit of a Pinterest fanatic, I have found an easy way to support and feed my Infographics Habit. Continuing to stock pile Educational Infographics on my Pinterest board, I waited until I found an app-ortunity to share these resources with one of my teachers and create a delectable lesson. During my stint as an 8th Math tutor, I had a few of the teachers approach me about engaging math lessons that they could utilize with 8th Math after the STAAR test. I mentioned the topic of infographics and shared a few of the ones I had collected. Then I worked with one of the teachers in particular, Mrs. Pinterest: Educational Infographics “Common Core Standards: Interpret information presented visually, orally, or quantitatively (e.g., in charts, graphs, diagrams, time lines, animations, or interactive elements on Web pages) and explain how the information contributes to an understanding of the text in which it appears”
Playing Music During Exercise
John Kelly/Getty Images For a study published last year, British researchers asked 12 healthy male college students to ride stationary bicycles while listening to music that, as the researchers primly wrote, “reflected current popular taste among the undergraduate population.” Each of the six songs chosen differed somewhat in tempo from the others. The volunteers were told to ride the bicycles at a pace that they comfortably could maintain for 30 minutes. But their riding changed significantly in response. The interplay of exercise and music is fascinating and not fully understood, perhaps in part because, as a science, it edges into multiple disciplines, from physiology to biomechanics to neurology. Just how music impacts the body during exercise, however, is only slowly being teased out by scientists. But there are limits to the benefits of music, and they probably kick in just when you could use the help the most.
25 Ways To Use Twitter In The Classroom, By Degree Of Difficulty
How Can We Stop Cheating In Online Courses? 6.11K Views 0 Likes While clearly not every student is trying hard to take the slacker route, it's worth noting that picking out the students trying to take this route gets a little more complicated when you move from taking classes in person to taking classes online. 5 Ways To Have A High-Tech Classroom With What You Already Have 11.45K Views 1 Likes There are a host of ways to use the technology you already have at your fingertips to create a Classroom 2.0. How Common Core Standards Mesh With Education Technology
Read "TWEEN" the Lines: Young Adult Novels Keep Tweens Reading
Newswise — Parents and teachers can help tweens become lifelong readers by encouraging them to read contemporary young adult novels. "When we think about contemporary young adult literature, we think about those kinds of novels that have similar characters to young adults; they contain plots and subject matter that tweens are dealing with on a daily basis," said Dr. Joyce Stallworth, senior associate dean in The University of Alabama's College of Education. "These kinds of books speak directly to tweens, so teachers would do well to incorporate this genre into their curriculum," said Stallworth. "In middle school, especially, teachers can incorporate young adult novels that match curricular requirements and the interests and needs of the students. So, when they can use those books tweens are interested in, the odds go up that they will be lifelong readers and continue to enjoy reading when they enter high school." But, Stallworth stresses, young adult literature is not just for school.
Blog Button in 3 Tutorials
Okay newbies! We know you are wanting to make that blog button for yourself that is unique and that others can grab. We've been there - all of us! If you're the kind of do-it-yourselfer, then here is a 3 step tutorial in videos that can teach you how using Microsoft Word (a program many of you have). I taught myself how to do it in order to teach you! So you can do it! As part of tutorial 3, I mention a place to grab code for your blog button that I used. And for more blogging help that I mentioned are hosted here on TBA, Blogging 101 Expo, Teaching Blog Traffic School and Ladybug Resources. Help my button is too big! Hope these tips help!
