10 Awesome Free Tools To Make Infographics
Advertisement Who can resist a colourful, thoughtful venn diagram anyway? In terms of blogging success, infographics are far more likely to be shared than your average blog post. This means more eyeballs on your important information, more people rallying for your cause, more backlinks and more visits to your blog. In short, a quality infographic done well could be what your blog needs right now. Designing An Infographic Some great tips for designing infographics: Keep it simple! Ideas for infographic formats include: Timelines;Flow charts;Annotated maps;Graphs;Venn diagrams;Size comparisons;Showing familiar objects or similar size or value. Here are some great tutorials on infographic creation: Creating Your Infographic Plan and research.If required, use free software to create simple graphs and visualisations of data.Use vector graphic software to bring these visualisations into the one graphic. Free Online Tools For Creating Infographics Stat Planet Hohli Creately New York Times Many Eyes Wordle
30 Best Tools for Data Visualization
During the past few years the client demand regarding Data Info-graphics has increased in volume and demand as well as in : clarity. The range of technologies available by which to collect and examine data is constantly on the rise- both in web and desktop applications, which provide several great interfaces. From a technological aspect , such tools ( or technologies ) have created efficiency based models which have gone onto disrupting existing paradigms of the past. These vary and range from data synthesis to data visualization encompassing every type of data. Within this scope, such new tools are continually emerging whose main purpose is to- simplify the process within being able to harness data in lending impact and insight generation. 1. iCharts 2. FusionCharts Suite XT is a professional and premium JavaScript chart library that enables us to create any type of charts. 3. 4. Pizza Pie Charts is a responsive Pie chart based on the Snap SVG framework from Adobe. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.
A Visual Guide To Teaching Students Digital Citizenship Skills
Though we’ve talked about digital citizenship in the past, since we’re constantly using technology and interacting in digital communities, an ongoing discussion about digital citizenship isn’t a waste of time, but rather a necessity. The handy infographic below comes from Nancy White, who wrote on her site that she created the infographic when she was searching for a resource about the importance of modeling these skills for students. She noted that teaching digital citizenship as a separate curriculum is one thing, but finding ‘teachable moments’ – when they’re already performing a task where the principles of digital citizenship can be put to work – is another entirely. I think she’s right on the mark. Talking to your students about being polite in online communities and understanding what is appropriate (or not!) Themes Of Digital Citizenship Show, Discuss, Model It! When you’re working with your students on certain tasks, these themes of digital citizenship come up in context.
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:
Teaching With Infographics
s regular readers of this blog know, we've been fascinated for a long time with infographics as teaching tools. We like their interdisciplinary nature and their union of data and text to broaden students' learning. They also woo the eye with tantalizing designs that engage children in discovery. Until recently, infographics had saturated the business and blog communities but were late to most schools' curricula. In the past few months, though, more and more practitioners have adopted infographics into their teaching tool kits. For ideas about using infographics in the classroom, check out these tips and suggestions. Create With Students To see colorful examples of student-generated infographics, take a look at "Designing Infographics Easel.ly." Anum Hussain at the Hubspot Blog presents another painless method for creating images with his free downloadable template. For more advanced experimenters, check out The Top 20 Data Visualisation Tools from Brian Suda at Net Magazine.
25 Ways To Use Twitter In The Classroom, By Degree Of Difficulty
How Can We Stop Cheating In Online Courses? 6.11K Views 0 Likes While clearly not every student is trying hard to take the slacker route, it's worth noting that picking out the students trying to take this route gets a little more complicated when you move from taking classes in person to taking classes online. 5 Ways To Have A High-Tech Classroom With What You Already Have 11.45K Views 1 Likes There are a host of ways to use the technology you already have at your fingertips to create a Classroom 2.0. How Common Core Standards Mesh With Education Technology
Blog Button in 3 Tutorials
Okay newbies! We know you are wanting to make that blog button for yourself that is unique and that others can grab. We've been there - all of us! If you're the kind of do-it-yourselfer, then here is a 3 step tutorial in videos that can teach you how using Microsoft Word (a program many of you have). I taught myself how to do it in order to teach you! As part of tutorial 3, I mention a place to grab code for your blog button that I used. And for more blogging help that I mentioned are hosted here on TBA, Blogging 101 Expo, Teaching Blog Traffic School and Ladybug Resources. Help my button is too big! Hope these tips help!
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100+ awesome free and open source applications - Software - Seopher.com - StumbleUpon
Posted on Tuesday 27th of September 2011 at 13:05 in SoftwareIt has always amazed me quite how many incredible, varied and useful applications are available for free on the Internet. Be it free, open source, web-based or merely passive trials - the number of top quality items on offer is huge. The purpose of this list is to help people realise that the free and open source software communities are expansive and generous. In these tense economic times, raising awareness of such projects is something I'm more than happy to do. If you feel that I've missed something good off the list, please leave a comment at the bottom - I read absolutely every one. Image, Image Editing and Graphics GIMP – The GNU Image Manipulation Program is a Photoshop replacement that doesn’t have "quite" as much functionality but it’s excellent for free. Paint.net - A really good, lightweight alternative to Photoshop. Artweaver - Office Audio
