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Data visualizations and infographics can make complex datasets easier to understand and comprehend.
Data Visualization and Infographics Resources - Smashing Magazine | Smashing Magazine
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.
Middle School | This American Life
This week, at the suggestion of a 14-year-old listener, we bring you stories from the awkward, confusing, hormonally charged world of middle school. Including a teacher who transforms peer pressure into a force for good, and reports from the frontlines of the middle school dance.
This quarter, students will be creating an infographic based on their research of an important international issue.
Turk, Mrs / Infographic 6th Grade Calendar
CIDR - Discuss Your Student Ratings
There are many ways to get systematic student feedback (in addition to the Midterm Class Interview ): collecting in-class written feedback, getting feedback online, and using classroom assessment techniques. Instructors use this kind of feedback to help inform their decisions about what to address in subsequent class sessions, to help them see how students are experiencing the course, and to help students judge their own progress learning the course material. CIDR consultants are available to help you design and implement these different types of assessment, and also to help you interpret student feedback and decide what actions to take in response.Instructors are always getting feedback from students -- through the questions students ask, the looks on students’ faces, and the coursework students do -- but it can be difficult to interpret these indirect forms of feedback or to use them as a basis for decisions about teaching. Systematically collecting feedback during a course can help you see the course as students see it and help you identify ways to support student learning more effectively. Collecting feedback during the course provides information that can be useful right away, while you are still working with students that quarter.
CIDR Teaching and Learning Bulletin 8(1)
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Photo: Name Withheld; Digital Manipulation: Jesse Lenz The spring air in the small, sand-dusted town has a soft haze to it, and clumps of green-gray sagebrush rustle in the breeze. Bluffdale sits in a bowl-shaped valley in the shadow of Utah’s Wasatch Range to the east and the Oquirrh Mountains to the west.
Text Graffiti: Previewing Challenging Topics < Teaching Channel
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. The aim of the text graffiti lesson is that students are engaged in pieces of text, talking through the text on the paper, and they're really starting to build some ideas, either as a preview for a subject or as a review for a subject. Before the lesson, I cut up lines from stories that we're reading on white pieces of paper, and then I tape them on pieces of colored paper.
How to Foster Student Feedback | Edutopia
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.This web site takes users through the actual steps of writing a basic essay.
Interactive Websites
Paragraph Punch: An Interactive Online Paragraph Writing Tutorial
As students advance, to improve writing skills they need in-depth support.Fourth and fifth grade students collaborating to map a scrolled text. The scroll enables them to see at a glance the layout and content across many pages.
Workshop Notes - Scrolls and Textmapping
Interactive Infographics are online representations of information or data that usually allow the user to “interact” with it and the data that is visualized.