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Twitter Infographics Labs Page

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Make Your Own Infographics | Screencast Tutorial June 29, 2017 The Digital Shift On Libraries and New Media, powered by Library Journal and School Library Journal You are here: Home / K-12 / Make Your Own Infographics | Screencast Tutorial Make Your Own Infographics | Screencast Tutorial By Linda W. From You can create infographics—visual representations of data—from scratch using free web tools. Creating infographics | screencast tutorial from School Library Journal on Vimeo. PrintFriendlyEmailTwitterLinkedInGoogle+FacebookTumblr Filed Under: K-12, Software Tagged With: Easelly, Infogram, infographic, Linda W. About Linda W. Linda W. Comments Lucky Balaraman says: December 24, 2012 at 10:01 pm Hi Linda, A very nice presentation. Search the Shift Recent & Popular Advertisement Job Zone Tag the Shift On Twitter On Facebook About the Shift Top of Page Copyright Media Source Inc. © 2017 AddToAny

Sweet Search Pictarine - Zest of life Create Infographics With Piktochart It seems like every day I find a new infographic on at least one of the blogs that I follow. This is because a good infographic can deliver a lot of information in an easy-to-understand format. If you would like to have your students try their hands at creating infographics, Piktochart is a good tool to use. Piktochart provides seven free infographic templates. Each template can be customized by changing the colors, fonts, icons, and charts on each template.

10 awesome ways to use a USB flash drive Your trusty USB flash drive is much more versatile than you might realize, packing capabilities that go well beyond storing and transferring files. These little-known tricks can be utilized by computer newbies and technogeeks alike to achieve anything from restoring a virus-ridden computer to launching and playing portable apps right from the drive. Unlock our top-10 ways to use a USB flash drive with the guide below. Thanks to fellow How To blogger Ed Rhee, and the team at CNET, you'll be surprised to find that storing files might not be the best use of thumbdrives after all. 1. Lock and unlock your computer, secret agent style With Predator, you can turn your USB drive into a "key" that unlocks your computer when plugged in, and locks it when it's removed. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. Bonus: Quickly remove USB devices without using Safe Removal

7 Image Search Tools That Will Change Your Life by Maria Popova What martinis have to do with reverse art lookup and obscure German calendars from the 1990’s. Although Google has been playing with some fun image search toys in its lab and the official Google Image Search has recently significantly upped its game, some of its most hyped features — color search, instant scrolling, hover preview — are but mere shadows of sleeker, better versions that geekier, more sophisticated image search tools offer. Here are seven of our favorites. oSkope is a visual search assistant that lets you browse images and products from popular sites like Amazon, eBay, YouTube and Flickr in a highly intuitive way. You can skim thumbnails related to your search keywords and save search results from different services to a visual bookmark bar at the bottom of your browser screen. Thanks, Amrit! CompFight is a Flickr search tool tremendously useful for all your comp stock image needs but also doubling as a visual inspiration ignition engine. Share on Tumblr

A history teacher uses the oil spill for a student design project Devon ThomasStudents in Diana Laufenberg’s 11th grade history class discuss the infographics they created in a three-week project on environmental disasters. From left to right, the students are Ryan Francis, Luna Frank-Fischer, and Kern Clarke. To close Infographics Week here on The Learning Network, I invited a classroom teacher (and self-described “fanatic” about the use of infographics in education) to detail a project I first heard her talk about on a National Writing Project-affiliated podcast called “Teachers Teaching Teachers.” Diana Laufenberg has been a public school social studies teacher for the last thirteen years, eight at the middle school level and five in high school. Diana acknowledges that though the ready access to technology at a school like hers is a clear advantage, she spent eleven years in schools where access was limited — and she believes that “effective project-based, inquiry-driven learning is not dependent on technology.” So here’s Diana. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6.

Infographics for the Art Challenged I've been interested in infographics for a couple years now. The best ones do a fantastic job organizing complex ideas, sharing information through a mix of visuals and text. In fact they provide a unique opportunity to study (or practice!) the relationship between text and image for conveying ideas. Infographics are an excellent alternative to research papers when teachers want students to practice the skills of research, organiziation and analysis without taking the time to write (or grade!) I've never had students do them, though, because they always required a) artistic ability or b) hard-core Adobe Illustrator skills. No longer. As someone severely art-challenged (as many of my students, who have laughed themselves silly over my stick figures, will tell you), I especially appreciate the opportunity these apps provide for students to think in visual terms. I also think I'll use them to do my annual report.

By the Numbers: Infographics, cont. Are you growing tired of Infographics yet? We've finished round one of the Infographic Project, with lots of interesting feedback. You'll see student samples throughout this post--the best of the lot; most of them, quite frankly, didn't quite get it, for reasons I'll discuss below. In a nutshell, we deemed the assignment well worth another go, and feel students will do a better job the second time around. The assignment was for students to choose a specific tourist destination such as EuroDisney or Hurghada, Egypt, and show how the site fit into the Butler Model of tourism. As it turns out, that probably wasn't the best assignment for this type of project, as the research aspect was really difficult. Here's how we rolled out the assignment. Day One: The history teacher introduced the assignment, explained the Butler model and looked at examples of it. Day Two: I introduced the students to infographics using this pathfinder. 1. Working with text (I struggled with this, too).

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