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Visual Learning in Generation
http://tinyurl.com/ykt5bu Visual Learning in Generation "M" In this session Dr. Thornburg examines the significance of visual media in education content. One of the leading observations in this presentation is that educators spend the majority of all 13 years of the school experience on reading and writing instruction, while virtually no time at all is spent on explicit instruction in the use of visual media. This is "such a disconnect between what is happening in homes, outside of the classroom, that this becomes a real relevance issue". |
 
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Presentation by Hans Rosling
http://www.ted.com/tedtalks/tedtalksplayer.cfm?key=hans_rosling If you want to see the most amazing use of graphs ... that you've probably ever seen ... then have a look at this Presentation by Hans Rosling Video online .... brilliant .. and highly motivating to want to be really creative with graphs ... and demonstrates the power of presenting data dynamically and visually Hans Rosling is professor of international health at Sweden's world-renowned Karolinska Institute, and founder of Gapminder, a non-profit that brings vital global data to life. With the drama and urgency of a sportscaster, he debunks a few myths about the "developing" world. (Recorded February, 2006 in Monterey, CA.) The powerpoints themselves can be downloaded from .... http://www.gapminder.org/ |
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Photos: Pictures That Lie
http://news.com.com/2300-1026_3-6033210-1.html Photos: Pictures That Lie The doctored images were manipulated beyond straightforward cropping of edges or lightening shaded areas. Often they have a key element inserted or deleted. |
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Mikons
http://www.mikons.com/ Mikons Welcome to Mikons.com, a new form of self-expression that connects people through visual symbols (personal tags). Our mission is to give you a fun and easy way to create these symbols that tell your story, let you decide how you want to share them, and use them to connect with people anywhere in the world. Use the Mikon Machine™, our cool vector drawing tool, to create the symbols that tell your story. You can design from scratch or remix other graphics to build your personal set of Mikons. web 2.0 |
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Visual Literacy Toolkits
http://www.infovis-wiki.net/index.php/Toolkit_Links Visual Literacy Toolkits |
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The InfoVis:Wiki project
http://www.infovis-wiki.net/ The InfoVis:Wiki project is intended to provide a community platform and forum integrating recent developments and news on all areas and aspects of Information Visualization. Using editable?y?nyone Wiki technology turned out to be the only way of keeping the presented information up to date and knowledge exchange vivid. |
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Dasher : writing without a keyboard (free software)
http://www.l4l.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=76&Itemid=1 Free software for writing without a keyboard David MacKay demonstrated Dasher to us at the BETT 2006 Special Needs fringe - it was nothing short of amazing - this video is 65 mb but worth waiting for... Main Dasher website is at http://www.dasher.org.uk/ |
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Search By Drawing
http://blog.searchenginewatch.com/blog/060103-180848 Search By Drawing First discovered by Tara (and also blogged by Barry, Philipp, and John) is an experimental search tool called retrievr that allows the user to find related Flickr images by drawing a sketch. Barry writes that it doesn't work too well while Philipp is more postitive. Tara notes it works well for browsing. Experimental work in this are has been going on at Purdue University for several years. Here are a few related links, papers, and a small demo. |
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Circle Plot Diagram
http://www.readwritethink.org/student_mat/student_material.asp?id=26 The Circle Plot Diagram can be used as a prewriting graphic organizer for students writing original stories with a circular plot structure as well as a postreading organizer used to explore the text structures in a book. |
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Thinking Tools from Intel
http://www.intel.com/education/tools/index.htm Thinking Tools from Intel Increase student learning with these interactive, online tools designed to promote higher-order thinking in any subject. Each tool features an online workspace where students create and save visual representations of their thinking. Classroom strategies and teacher-tested project ideas suitable for K-12 classrooms will help you get started. Visual Ranking Tool Students show their reasoning and discuss differences in their conclusions as they use the Visual Ranking Tool to prioritize and compare items in lists. Seeing Reason Tool Seeing Reason Tool prompts students to investigate cause-and-effect relationships in complex systems. Students use an interactive causal mapping tool to create maps that communicate their understanding. Showing Evidence Tool Students use the Showing Evidence Tool to construct a well-reasoned argument and defend it with credible evidence. The interactive workspace prompts students to assess sources and analyze evidence. |
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Mappr
http://www.mappr.com/ Mappr is an interactive environment for exploring place, based on the photos people take. By adding geographical information to the wealth of photographs found on Flickr, it allows new ways of looking at spaces and images. Mappr adds place to pictures. |
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Venn Diagrams : : Online Interactive Tool
http://www.readwritethink.org/student_mat/student_material.asp?id=32 Venn Diagrams : : Online Interactive Tool This interactive tool allows students to create Venn Diagrams, enabling them to organize their information logically. Students may edit and print their finished diagrams. |
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Circle Plot Diagram : Online Interactive Tool
http://www.readwritethink.org/student_mat/index.asp Circle Plot Diagram : Online Interactive Tool Introducing the concept of text structure to elementary students is made easy?nd fun!?hrough the use of the Circle Plot Diagram. The tool can be used as a prewriting graphic organizer for students writing original stories with a circular plot structure (e.g., If You Take a Mouse to School), as well as a postreading organizer used to explore the text structures in a book. By students inserting main examples of a story? plot directly onto the circular interactive (shown at left), the concepts of structure and plot are reinforced each time the tool is used. |
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Fliker : image search engine
http://www.fliker.com/ Fliker is an image search engine and an inspirational tool. As you type and refine your search, you see results as quickly as your connection allows. Fliker is the fastest way of searching for images, all you have to do is concentrate on the images that flash in front of you. Fliker is also an inspirational tool, it dynamically reacts to your search terms as you type, so you receive exciting and unxpected results as you spell your searches out. |
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Introducing Visual Literacy : Grade Level: 7 - 10
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/dancin/resources/lesson_plan-l2.html Introducing Visual Literacy : Grade Level: 7 - 10 Language Arts classes teach students to be intelligent consumers of written texts, to read closely, understand and respond to the written word. Yet our students "consume" far more visual than written images, and far more of their information is gathered through television, video and film than though books. This lesson plan introduces students to the idea that visual images can be read and interpreted, and that they can become literate in media as well as text. It is meant to be an introduction to approaching visual literacy, either as a separate unit of study or as an ongoing perspective on films and images viewed throughout the school year. |
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Photo Literacy
http://www.angelfire.com/sc3/photoliteracy/ Photo Literacy This site will help you to understand the history and culture of photography and will make suggestions for the viewing of historically significant as well as contemporary photographs. Questions for Analyzing Photographs as Primary Resources |
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Visual Ranking : Analyzing and Prioritizing Information
http://www.intel.com/education/visualranking/index.htm Visual Ranking : Analyzing and Prioritizing Information Use an online tool for ordering and prioritizing items in a list Help students analyze and evaluate criteria for their decisions Compare reasoning visually to promote collaboration and discussion Making a list is usually straightforward and requires little thought. But when it comes to ordering and prioritizing items in that list, higher-level skills of analysis and evaluation are put to use. Visual Ranking brings focus to the thinking behind making ordered lists. Students identify and refine criteria as they assign order or ranking to a list. They must explain their reasoning and can compare their work with each other in a visual diagram. This tool supports activities where students need to debate differences, reach consensus, and organize ideas. |
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10x10 ('ten by ten')
http://www.tenbyten.org/ 10x10?('ten by ten') is an interactive exploration of the words and pictures that define the time. Every hour, 10x10 collects the 100 words and pictures that matter most on a global scale, and presents them as a single image, taken to encapsulate that moment in time. Over the course of days, months, and years, 10x10 leaves a trail of these hourly statements which, stitched together side by side, form a continuous patchwork tapestry of human life. |
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Intro and Make a Custom Graphic Organizer
http://www.edhelper.com/teachers/graphic_organizers.htm Make a Custom Graphic Organizer at EdHelper LOts of examples of different graphic organisers .. all on one webpage .. a great resource for introducing this topic. Introduction to Graphic Organizers | An introduction with samples of filled-in graphic organizers (PDF File) | Customize a KWL Printable | |
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Visual Literacy Free Resources
http://k-8visual.info/ Visual Literacy Free Resources This site is for K? classroom teachers who are interested in helping children to read and write information, both print and electronic. Visual literacy helps children to learn to read ?and to enjoy reading. Examples of visual texts include diagrams, maps, tables, time lines and storyboards. |
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Visual Literacy Activities
http://www.museumca.org/picturethis/look.html Visual Literacy Activities |
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Visual Literacy in Classrooms
http://members.ozemail.com.au/~leemshs/visual.htm Visual Literacy in Classrooms Students today live in a multimedia world and appreciate variety in their learning environment. Some forms of literacy they can develop include textual, numerical, visual, audio and multimedia. Visual Literacy can be defined as the ability to understand and produce visual messages. Both teachers and students can benefit by developing their abilities to create, use and evaluate visual resources. This site also has some links to other visual literacy resources. |
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The Graphic Organizer
http://www.graphic.org/ Graphic Organizers, Mind Maps, Concept Maps are a pictoral or graphical way to organize information and thoughts for understanding, remembering, or writing about. Graphic organizers, mind maps and concept maps are powerful tools that can be used to enchance learning and create a foundation for learning. |
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21st Century Literacies : Tools for Reading the World
http://www.noodletools.com/debbie/literacies/21c.html 21st Century Literacies : Tools for Reading the World In Intelligence Reframed Howard Gardner contends that ?iteracies, skills, and disciplines ought to be pursued as tools that allow us to enhance our understanding of important questions, topics, and themes.? Today's readers become literate by learning to read the words and symbols in today's world and its antecedents. They analyze, compare, evaluate and interpret multiple representations from a variety of disciplines and subjects, including texts, photographs, artwork, and data. They learn to choose and modify their own communication based on the rhetorical situation. Point of view is created by the reader, the audience and the medium. Basic Language Literacy | Visual Literacy | Historical Literacy | Information Literacy | Cultural Literacy | Political Literacy and News Media Literacy | Scientific Literacy | Mathematical Literacy | |
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Mindmaps using ICT
http://www.shambles.net/pages/school/mindmaps/ Mindmaps using ICT Software solutions for producing mindmaps and other graphical organisers |
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Key Visuals
http://www.actis.co.uk/cgi-bin/ema/user.pl?user=Guest What are key visuals? Key Visuals are ways of representing or organising information diagrammatically. Typically, the diagram or picture works independently of language, conveys meaning in itself. A time line, grid, or a Venn diagram, allows us to arrange our information logically, allows us to organise our thinking about data. A diagram is frequently 'self explanatory'. We have created a tool for authors of online learning materials which has the ability to: - create a variety of key visuals - create, edit, move and organise information that will populate the empty diagram - save the results in a fixed format Using the authoring tool, you can make materials that will support learners whose first language is not English, but whose grasp of the subject material is good. The key visuals can provide an intellectual entry point, and the fridge magnets can give a grip on the ideas, through finding their own language on the alternative sides. |
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What is a Graphic Organizer?
http://www.forsyth.k12.ga.us/sbeck/teacher_making_the_connection5.htm What is a Graphic Organizer? "A graphic organizer forms a powerful visual picture of information and allows the mind to see undiscovered patterns and relationships. We use them everyday in our lives, beginning with the calendar." |
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Graphic Organizer Makers
http://teachers.teach-nology.com/web_tools/graphic_org/ Graphic Organizer Makers The generators below will allow you to make graphic organizers by filling out a simple form. The materials are made instantly and can be printed directly from your computer. Your creations are exclusive to you. If you would like to keep your creations, save them when you make them. We are constantly developing new tools if you have an idea for a tool please let us know. Currently, the following tools are available in this area Concept Web Generator | Graphic Organizer Workbooks | KWL Generator | SQ3R Chart Generator | Time Line Generators | Venn Diagram Generator | |
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The On-Line Visual Literacy Project
http://www.pomona.edu/Academics/courserelated/classprojects/Visual-lit/intro/intro.html The On-Line Visual Literacy Project To be verbally literate, one must possess and be able to manipulate the basic components of written language: the letters, words, spelling, grammar, syntax. With a mastery of these elements of written communication, the possibilities of verbal expression are endless. Visual literacy must operate within the same boundaries. Just as there are components and common meaning for the elements of verbal literacy, elements and common meaning exist for the elements of visual literacy. |
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The Graphic Organiser
http://www.graphic.org/home.html The Graphic Organiser Some resources you might find useful for writing and the use of Graphic Organizers. |
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Graphic Organizers
http://www.educationworld.com/tools_templates/index.shtml Graphic Organizers : Venn diagrams, family tree chart, concept maps, comparison chart, event map, spider map, and KWL charts. |
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Art, Design & Visual Thinking: An Interactive Textbook
http://char.txa.cornell.edu/ Art, Design & Visual Thinking: An Interactive Textbook The entire book is available here at no cost, along with assignments to go with with the text. |
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Visual Understanding in Education
http://www.vue.org/ Visual Understanding in Education Visual Understanding in Education (VUE) conducts educational research focused on aesthetic and cognitive development that results from interaction with art. Based on its findings, VUE develops programs for schools and museums, principally Visual Thinking Strategies (VTS). VUE is not-for-profit and primarily supported by grants. |
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