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Video Chat: Using Easel.ly to Create Infographics in the Classroom

Watch the Video Chat Here and Read the Notes Below: We chatted with Megan Schonhar, an English Teacher at Greer Middle College Charter High School in South Carolina and author of the article, Using Easel.ly To Create Infographics in the Classroom.  Her article can be found in the Technology in Literacy Education blog by the Technology …

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Class Rules: Infographics for Every Teacher

School is out for the summer (in the United States at least), but that doesn’t mean teachers aren’t already gearing up for the next session. If you’re a teacher and you find yourself already bogged down in lesson plans and deciding how best to organize your classroom, here are a few ways that infographics can …

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11 Activities Using Infographics & Data to Teach The Election

Are you using infographics to explain or teach the election? If not, you should be. The election is a treasure trove for infographics and data representation.  There are so many things to analyze during election season–candidates, issues, numbers, polls, statistics–this is the infographic lover’s jackpot. Without visuals, we surely would drown. The 2016 election is …

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Infographics for Teaching Classic Literature

If you’re the English teacher or drama coach, you’re probably pretty up on your Hamlet and MacBeth. The rest of us–not so much. These works can be pretty daunting for students and mere mortals alike. Even with Sparknotes, Thugnotes, and reading Amazon reviews, the classics are tough to understand. They’re classics for a reason. Students …

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Infographics and The New Student

Nowadays, nearly everything about anything can be found online and often in a much more appealing form than what’s typically found at school. Who’d want to pay attention to a drawn-out explanation, copying endless equations off a dusty blackboard, when they could have the essential points presented in plain language with a direct and real-time demonstration (possibly with some funky music in the background), all in a few minutes of a YouTube video?

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