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?
Who says that sharing information can’t be beautiful, not only useful? Aesthetics in general is a big part of our lives, and we do respond to it consciously or not. The modern age we live in is all about feeding on information – everyone has it at the tip of their fingers.
Being an educator is quite demanding. Even though there are various seminars, classes and books on how to improve your teaching methods and behavior during classes in general, not everything can be explained in this matter.
Below is a quick infographic that I put together to show you how our new charts look! You still create charts in the same way as before, couldn’t be simpler. Try this: 1) Hover over the Pie Chart on the right 2) Hover over the Bar Chart at the bottom 3) Refresh the page and …
The following is a sample from Easelly’s Crash Course in Infographics. You can check out the complete e-book (in high-def glory) here. The book was specially designed so that each page can be printed and hung up in your classroom or agency as a handy cheat sheet. Let us know what you think of our book in …
The following is a sample from Easelly’s Crash Course in Infographics. You can check out the complete e-book (in high-def glory) here. The book was specially designed so that each page can be printed and hung up in your classroom or agency as a handy cheat sheet. This particular sample features a lot of hyperlinks; you can click …
This post is part of an ongoing series about infographics and education. Last week’s post “Infographics That Teach You How To Build Better Infographics” can be found here. This week, we’re highlighting a few infographics that help teachers (and anyone interested in effective teaching) make an impact on their students. Some of these infographics distill …
The infographics world is chock full of visuals that appeal to the teaching and understanding of world history. From student submissions I can assess at a glance, their ability to contextualize comparisons between historic events or to identify patterns of change & continuity. Why is this important? Students of Advanced Placement World History (#WHAP) know …