Data Visualization and Infographics Resources - Smashing Magazine. Advertisement Data visualizations and infographics can make complex datasets easier to understand and comprehend. By creating a graphical represenatation of data and statistics, complicated concepts and information can make more sense in less time. Many visualizations focus on representing a specific set of data or statistical information. Others focus on less-concrete topics, providing a visual representation of abstract concepts. Generally speaking, the first type appear more like graphs or charts and the latter are often more creative and imaginative. But visualizations and infographics can be used poorly, too.
Also consider our previous articles: Data Visualizations and Infographics which lists examples and types of infographics and data visualizations.Data Visualization: Modern Approaches showcases modern examples of data visualization and infographics. 1. Strange Maps Strange Maps features only map-based graphics, both modern and historical. Wall Stats Visual Complexity Cool Infographics.
Teens Are Sending, Receiving 60 Texts a Day [STUDY] Teens are texting more than ever — and their thumb-crunching habits are showing no signs of slowing, according to a new study. A new report by the Pew Internet & American Life Project revealed that the amount of texts sent and receive each day among teenagers has jumped in the past few years, especially among boys, older teens and African-Americans.
The study looked at the behavior of nearly 800 teens ages 12 to 17 during a three-part survey between April and July 2011 and a series of focus groups involving 57 people ages 12 to 19. Teens on average are sending and receiving 60 texts each day, up from 50 in 2009. The increase is being led by older teens ages 14-17, who went from a median of 60 texts a day to a whopping 100 two years later. Girls are still the most active texters, sending and receiving a median of 100 texts a day compared to boys sending 50.
However, boys are texting more than they were just two years ago — in 2009, they sent about 30 each day. Middle School. Turk, Mrs / Infographic 6th Grade Calendar. • Chart of the day. CIDR - Discuss Your Student Ratings. CIDR Teaching and Learning Bulletin 8(1) The NSA Is Building the Country's Biggest Spy Center (Watch What You Say) | Threat Level. It needs that capacity because, according to a recent report by Cisco, global Internet traffic will quadruple from 2010 to 2015, reaching 966 exabytes per year. (A million exabytes equal a yottabyte.) In terms of scale, Eric Schmidt, Google's former CEO, once estimated that the total of all human knowledge created from the dawn of man to 2003 totaled 5 exabytes.
And the data flow shows no sign of slowing. In 2011 more than 2 billion of the world's 6.9 billion people were connected to the Internet. By 2015, market research firm IDC estimates, there will be 2.7 billion users. Thus, the NSA's need for a 1-million-square-foot data storehouse. The data stored in Bluffdale will naturally go far beyond the world's billions of public web pages. Once it's operational, the Utah Data Center will become, in effect, the NSA's cloud. 1 Geostationary satellites 2 Aerospace Data Facility, Buckley Air Force Base, Colorado 3 NSA Georgia, Fort Gordon, Augusta, Georgia 5 NSA Hawaii, Oahu.
Text Graffiti: Previewing Challenging Topics < Teaching Channel. Register Now and join a community of a million educators. Take 30 seconds to register (it's free!) And: Access our downloadable Back To School Starter PacksComment on videosGet help - and help others - in our Q&A section Register Now Already registered? Learn about Teaching Channel Plus for Schools & Districts Sign In or Sign Up Text Graffiti: Previewing Challenging Topics Grade 8 / ELA / Literacy Common Core State Standards Embed Video TEACHING CHANNEL / TEXT GRAFFITI INTERVIEW WITH JENNIFER OCHOA JENNIFER OCHOA: Hi, name is Jennifer Ochoa and I’m an 8th grade literacy teacher at MS 324 in Washington Heights, and my lesson idea is called Text Graffiti. Error loading player: No playable sources found <div>Please enable Javascript to watch this video</div> Related Videos Informational Texts: Reading for Inquiry Grade 2 / ELA / Questioning ELA.RI.2.1 / ELA.RI.2.5 / ELA.SL.2.1a46062 > Lesson Objective Preview a topic and make predictions based on textual evidence Length 5 min Questions to Consider Feedback.
How to Foster Student Feedback. At the end of the year, the student survey can be your best friend -- that honest and supportive friend that gives you meaningful feedback and leaves you with something to think about. Your job is to set the stage for your friend to perform on, and then listen with an open mind. I've given surveys to every group of kids I've ever taught -- as young as second graders -- and I've found them invaluable in improving my practice.
First, let's consider the purpose of the survey. Though it can be a tool for reflection, primarily, it's a way for students to give you feedback. An Opportunity to Reflect A reflection is mostly for helping the learner become aware of his or her own learning experience and communicate that to the teacher. A survey, however, has the class, school, or teacher as its content. Here's my spiel when giving kids an end-of-year survey: "I need to know what you think about this class and my teaching this year. "I want to take you seriously. The Format of the Survey What to Ask? Interactive Websites. Paragraph Punch: An Interactive Online Paragraph Writing Tutorial. Workshop Notes - Scrolls and Textmapping. The Best Sources For Interactive Infographics. Interactive Infographics are online representations of information or data that usually allow the user to “interact” with it and the data that is visualized.
They’re generally created by newspapers for their websites, and often, though not always, are accessible to English Language Learners. In fact, they can be an exceptionally accessible way for ELL’s to learn complicated information that might ordinarily not be comprehensible. I’ve posted about quite a few interactive infographics over the past three years. And I’ve posted A Collection Of “The Best…” Lists On Infographics. I thought readers might find it useful to learn which sites I have found to be the best sources of good interactive infographics.
In addition to listing them here, I’ll be adding a section on them to the Teacher’s Page of my website. The links on this list will take you directly to the Interactive Infographics page of the named newspapers. The Wall Street Journal TIME Magazine USA Today The Sun Sentinel The Guardian. Data Visualized: More on Teaching With Infographics. Information aesthetics - Data Visualization & Information Design. Infographics. By Alex , Helping students interpret visual representations of information. Update: Feb. 29, 2012 Please note: The original video we used for this post was a video podcast by Gestalten TV in which New York Times Graphics Director Steven Duenes and Graphics Editor Archie Tse describe how their team works with breaking news to create clear, concise visualizations of data for readers. Since that has now been taken down, we have substituted a classic TED talk by David McCandless that we refer to in the post. We’re declaring this week Infographics Week on The Learning Network because we know how important it is for students to be able to read and interpret visual representations of information — and because The New York Times consistently creates useful and elegant examples that we think teachers across the curriculum should know about.
Not only do charts, graphs and maps show up on standardized tests of all kinds, but whiteboard technology has made the graphic depiction of information that much more useful and ubiquitous in classrooms. Infographics in General: Final Infographics (Pictures) | Ms. Madrid. Helping children to become better researchers. To teach children how to become competent researchers requires several stages. I like to use Inspiration (or Kidspiration) Graphic Organisers to guide them in this task. Once they have some knowledge of the topic at hand teachers generally set them an activity where they have to come up with a question to research about.
Most children find this difficult. That is why I use this Graphic Organiser 'What do we know about? ' The nouns or verbs in the question are likely to be their search words. The next step is to go to Google or any other search engine enter in the search words. Type in one of the key words, if that word is on the page it will be highlighted, ask the child to read the sentence the word is highlighted in, refer them back to their research question and ask them if it answers their question, if not they click on the Next and that will highlight the next instance of that word, again they read that sentence. I Love Charts - PBS Kids Video. Infographics and Inquiry Presenting. All of my schools at the present are embroiled in Rugby World Cup fever. Students are researching and finding out information not only about their own country but also adopted countries.
Soon they will need to present this information so I have been talking to teachers about how 'Infographics' are a great way to present student work. Students will have created their research question, found their keywords and used the smart researcher tools to find information. They will have copied photos or graphics to folders and the internet references to WordProcessor (Word, Pages, Google Docs) along with 'brief' notes copied from Internet pages that answer their research question. Now how could they present it? The following example has been created in Comiclife. Or in PowerPoint Or in Keynote The following diagram lists all of the possible elements that could be included in an infographic The criteria for an infographic presentation is For younger children you can simplify the criteria.
Infographics and Inquiry Presenting. Creating Infographics with Students I have been mesmerized by Infographics for a while now. Take a look at my previously written posts. What are infographics? Here are some definitions I ran across as I was learning and wrapping my mid around teaching with infographics: Visua.ly, a soon-to-be-released site to “Create, Share, Explore Great Visualizations” states in their intro video: Visualization= Story+Data+Design The video clip also points out the following three elements of an Infographic DesignJournalismAnalysis which lead directly into the reasons why we should not only teach students WITH but also to allow the to CREATE their own infographics. You can download the following flyer “Creating Infographics with your Students” as a pdf file. Creating Infographics with your Students Why teach with infographics? How to create your own infographics? What tools to use to create your infographic: Creating charts and other components Pulling all together: Word/PagesPowerpoint/KeynotePhotoShopComicLife (mac and iPad app)Visualize (iPad app)