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800+ Persuasive Maps - And a Tool for Making Your Own. About a week ago Open Culture published an article about Cornell University's Persuasive Cartography collection.

800+ Persuasive Maps - And a Tool for Making Your Own

I hadn't seen that collection before so I went down a rabbit hole looking at map after map for a good 45 minutes. Persuasive maps aren't maps that you would use to teach a classic geography lesson. That's because persuasive maps are maps that were created for the purpose of sending a message. In Cornell University's Persuasive Cartography collection you will find maps that were created to persuade and satirize. The maps in this collection date back as far as 1491 and up to 2012. Applications for Education You can browse Cornell University's Persuasive Cartography collection from the homepage of the collection. I found the collection of maps related to imperialism to be particularly interesting. If you teach high school or middle school students, StoryMap JS is a good tool for telling stories through the use of maps, text, and multimedia.

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Rationale - Reasoninglab

Help your students develop critical thinking and writing skills, competencies essential for their study and future. Critical thinking is chosen as one of the 21st Century Skills. We would like to introduce Rationale®, a program to structure thinking and writing skills. Rationale® is an educational program designed to guide students from basic brainstorming tasks toward evaluated reasoning and clear well-structured essays. By making argument maps, you visually display and scaffold the thinking process. Rationale’s argument mapping method is an intuitive format, designed to build critical thinking and writing skills in all subject areas. Rationale® is easy and fun to use.

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Use of Propaganda in WWI Postcards. Millions of postcards circulated during the First World War and influenced public opinion.

Use of Propaganda in WWI Postcards

It is not surprising that something as ordinary as a postcard was used by governments on all sides to either defend their own actions, to discredit the enemy and to rouse the masses to support their nation. Within just three days of the declaration of war on 1 August 1914, publishers had war-themed postcards on sale. CONTENTdm. The Ransom Center's movie poster collection consists of an estimated 10,000 posters and spans the entire history of film from the silent era to the present day.

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All sizes of American film posters are represented: Window Cards (14" x 22"), Inserts (14" x 36"), Half Sheets (22" x 28"), One Sheets (27" x 41"), Three Sheets (41" x 81"), Six Sheets (81" x81"), and 24 Sheets (i.e.: billboards, 9' x 20.5'). The largest part of the collection comes from the Interstate Theater Circuit.

At one time, the Interstate Theater chain consisted of almost every movie theater in Texas, and the posters, film stills, lobby cards, and press books form the foundation of the Ransom Center's film publicity collection. Persuasive Essays — Literacy Ideas. Essay Structure 1.

Persuasive Essays — Literacy Ideas

Introduction In the introduction the student will, naturally, introduce the topic. Controversial issues make for great topics in this writing genre. How to Change Minds: Blaise Pascal on the Art of Persuasion. If it weren’t for the “backfire effect” — the strange psychological phenomenon behind our propensity for self-righteousness — changing people’s minds wouldn’t be such an uncomfortable luxury.

How to Change Minds: Blaise Pascal on the Art of Persuasion

One might even say that moving minds — our own as well as those of others — is among the most effortful labor there is. Nearly half a millennium before modern psychologists identified the three elements of persuasion — attunement, buoyancy, and clarity — French physicist, philosopher, inventor, and mathematician Blaise Pascal (June 19, 1623–August 19, 1662) intuited this mechanism as he arrived at a great truth about the secret of persuasion: Pascal came to see that the surest way of defeating the erroneous views of others is not by bombarding the bastion of their self-righteousness but by slipping in through the backdoor of their beliefs. Propaganda Posters. Interpreting a visual source, like a propaganda poster, is very different to interpreting words on a page, which is the case with written sources.

Propaganda Posters

Therefore, you need to develop a different set of skills. Propaganda is an attempt to influence peoples’ opinions or behaviour through the use of specific images and words. It usually gives limited information which is heavily biased in its presentation. Propaganda typically achieves its aims by generating an emotional reaction in the viewer. The Shape of Spectacular Speech: An Infographic Analysis of What Made MLK’s “I Have a Dream” Great. Martin Luther King Jr.'s speech analyzed by Nancy Duarte. Persuasive Techniques q2k5hr. Persuasive techniques. GCSE English Language - Literary techniques - Revision 2. Glossary of persuasive techniques. Persuasive Language Techniques. K12ELA7 7.2.2 PersuasiveTechniquesHandout BY SA1. VCE Media, Victorian Curriculum, Media Arts, digital literacy, media education, filmmaking. When you read an article, it’s important to clarify the issue being debated.

VCE Media, Victorian Curriculum, Media Arts, digital literacy, media education, filmmaking

When you’re identifying the issue, phrasing something as a question can often help clearly state what is being argued over.