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Common Core State Standards. Tips - Dealing with Difficult Parents. Taken from the article "14 Steps to Teacher Assertiveness: How to cope with difficult parents, principals and staff members" by Mike Moore Remember that you can't change toxic parents, principals or fellow staff members, but you can learn to cope with them and neutralize their impact on your life.
Here are some effective strategies to try. Always stand at eye level with the person you are confronting. Never have them standing over you, looking down. Respect the toxic person and always expect respect in return. Jkylewood. Shellyterrell. The 18 Best Free Web Tools Chosen By You. It’s the start of a new year and that means there’s infinite possibilities that lay before you. The Anatomy Of An Infographic: 5 Steps To Create A Powerful Visual. Information is very powerful but for the most bit it is bland and unimaginative.
Infographics channel information in a visually pleasing, instantly understandable manner, making it not only powerful, but extremely beautiful. Once used predominantly to make maps more approachable, scientific charts less daunting and as key learning tools for children, inforgraphics have now permeated all aspects of the modern world. I designed a couple of infographics back in college, the need arising especially around the time Soccer World Cup fever spiked. It was a fun process representing the different groups, predicting winners in each group at each stage and creating a mock pairing of teams that would clash all the way leading upto the finals.
The 7 ½ Steps to Successful Infographics. 40 Useful and Creative Infographics. Six Revisions Menu Main Categories CSS HTML JavaScript.
9 Ways You Can Improve Your Infographic Pitches to Blogs & Websites. Over the past year, I’ve worked on approximately 20 different infographics for a single client. One of the most frustrating things about the process has been the unevenness of the response. Even if we do everything seemingly right, an infographic might not take off. After a string of disappointing infographics, I decided to go back over every step and figure out what we had missed.
After fixing the way we work with our design firm (hint: for best results, compile your own research and craft your infographic’s storyline before handing it off), we revamped our outreach process. Infographics are a unique type of content. 10 Tips for (journalists) Designing Infographics. This article was originally published on “Digital Newsgathering”, a class blog for Journalism 226 at San Francisco State University, Instructor: Staci Baird.
Infographic App & Presentation Tool. 20+ Tools to Create Your Own Infographics. A picture is worth a thousand words – based on this, infographics would carry hundreds of thousands of words, yet if you let a reader choose between a full-length 1000-word article and an infographic that needs a few scroll-downs, they’d probably prefer absorbing information straight from the infographic. What’s not to like? Colored charts and illustrations deliver connections better than tables and figures and as users spend time looking back and forth the full infographic, they stay on the site longer. Plus, readers who like what they see are more likely to share visual guides more than articles. 20+ Tools to Create Your Own Infographics.
Cramberry: Create & study flash cards online. Audioboo. Apple TV in the Classroom. 50 Education Technology Tools Every Teacher Should Know About. Technology and education are pretty intertwined these days and nearly every teacher has a few favorite tech tools that make doing his or her job and connecting with students a little bit easier and more fun for all involved.
Yet as with anything related to technology, new tools are hitting the market constantly and older ones rising to prominence, broadening their scope, or just adding new features that make them better matches for education, which can make it hard to keep up with the newest and most useful tools even for the most tech-savvy teachers. Here, we’ve compiled a list of some of the tech tools, including some that are becoming increasingly popular and widely used, that should be part of any teacher’s tech tool arsenal this year, whether for their own personal use or as educational aids in the classroom. Social Learning These tools use the power of social media to help students learn and teachers connect.
Twiducate - Social Networking & Media For Schools. Literature Learning Guides & Teacher Resources. Literature. Teacher/education cartoons you can use! - ANDERTOONS TEACHERS. VideoSparkNotes. Creating Effective Poster Prese. Comic Books as Journalism: 10 Masterpieces of Graphic Nonfiction - Kirstin Butler. An unusual summer reading roundup of books that blend meaty subject matter with engaging visual storytelling Who doesn't love comic books?
While infographics may be trendy today (and photography perennially sexy), there's just something special about the work of the human hand. Good old-fashioned manual labor, literally, brings a unique richness to storytelling where words alone sometimes fall flat. I've put together a list of some of my favorite graphic non-fiction. These hybrid works combine the best elements of art, journalism, and scholarship, and provide the perfect way to mix some visual magic into your summer reading list. ACMI Generator. Inkle » inklewriter. Zopler - Collaborative Story Telling.
ZEODIA.COM. Connect your story to the city! 21st Century Learning - Teaching the teachers. ToonDoo - World's fastest way to create cartoons! NCTE High School Matters: Annotating text using Google Docs. By Tara Seale Recently, I wrote an article for the Google Docs Blog titled Google Docs: the tool for the 21st century classroom.
The focus was how to use Google Docs and folders in an English classroom. Besides the ideas in the Google post, my students are also using Google Docs to annotate articles, short passages, or poems. 62 Ideas, Lessons and Humor for English Teachers #engchat. I start back to school today for my eleventh year of teaching next door to my own high school English teacher.
Mrs. Comics and Cartoons. 21 Signs You’re a 21st Century Teacher. Are you a 21st Century Teacher?
Find out! PLUS if you can help me add to my list you may win a special $200 prize. Keep reading to find out how... 1. You require your students to use a variety of sources for their research projects...and they cite blogs, podcasts, and interviews they've conducted via Skype. 2. StarTribune.com: News, weather, sports from Minneapolis, St. Paul and Minnesota.