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5 Tools For Creating Your Own Infographics. Five years ago, almost nobody knew what the heck an infographic was. (I sure didn’t, and I was a graphic design major in college at the time.) Now that the infographic craze has saturated us with new visual knowledge (and marketing gimmicks), something interesting has happened: The creation of infographics has become democratized. No longer is the act of creating a visual data story confined to professional designers using professional tools like Adobe Illustrator or Photoshop.

Now anyone with a data set can build an infographic. (See also 5 Business & Design Tools Every Tech Freelancer Should Learn.) Trust me when I say that with these tools, you don’t have to be a designer to create a high-quality, effective infographic. Does this mean there’s no place for professional designers and data? With that in mind, I’ve cobbled together a list of five services/methods that even non-designers can use to create or commission great infographics. Infogr.am: All The Bells And Whistles. 55+ Hand-Drawn Web Design – Build Creative And Approachable Websites. Having a hand-drawn web design is great for creating a personal and down-to-earth touch that will turn heads. Though hand drawings in website design is not one of the hot trends, it is a style that we all come across from time to time.

As you can see in the examples below, there are many ways to incorporate hand drawings in your web design and results are often great. Just like, with any other kind of art there are different styles that all fits the description “hand-drawn”. Rather you use illustrations, doodles, cartoonist drawings or sketches they all help you create a web site design that seems personal and approachable. However, if your goal is to build a website for selling your product, it is often a good idea to find a fine line where the design not only is creative, fun and entertaining, but also exudes professionalism and a business like attitude. Natrashka – MORE INFO Bearskinrug – MORE INFO The Kennedys – MORE INFO Lionite – MORE INFO Deborah Cavenaugh – MORE INFO Wired – MORE INFO. Fastest Way to Create Comic Strips and Cartoons - Toondoo. Interactive and multimedia learning blocks.

Sketchboard.io. How BookWidgets works. Interviews. What are the ways you get the information you are interested in? Reading analytical articles, books can become a boring pastime that doesn’t give you anything else, but a headache. Far more interesting is reading about the experience of competent people who know a thing about what they are talking about, and tell about it in the captivating way. They give you all the information about the question in simple and comprehensive manner, with bright examples and interesting descriptions. The interviews of famous web designers, developers, bloggers etc. help find out all the aspects of the themes you are interested in, and get inspired with their great ideas, and, perhaps, make use of the solutions that they offer in certain spheres.

Here we’ve compiled a set of 5 Interviews for Web Designers that are Worth Reading for you to be abreast of the latest online trends. Good Design is Invisible an Interview with iA’s Oliver Reichenstein Eric Meyer on the Past Present and Future of CSS Hello! Free Website Builder | Create a Free Website.

Kōrero the library lion loves tech on Pinterest | Evernote, Apps and Tech. Ed Tech Tips & Tricks. A few years ago, I heard a presenter at a conference proclaim, “If your students are not participating in meaningful, structured writing time every day, you DON’T have a writing program! ” What?!? I don’t? The comment made a significant impression on me, and though the presenter’s comment was laced with hyperbole, I took the message to heart. If we want kids to be better writers, they have to do it more often, and it has to be engaging. We’ve all been there… the complacency zone… where we require students to have a spiral notebook, read a prompt off the board, and write in their journals. But often during this automated process, students simply check out. At the end of the term, we wind up with a pile of half-destroyed journals, many smeared with some mystery goo and looking like they have lived in the trunk of a car for three months.

“…I tried meeting my students where they already were — in the land of MP3s and YouTube — and my classroom was forever changed Here’s what worked for me: