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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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Linear Programming with a Technology Twist

Looking for ways to include error analysis, one of the big CCSS mathematical practices, in a unit on Linear Programming. I gave each student a different linear program word problem and had them solve using Desmos graphing calculator (desmos.com). Once they had solved it to the best of their ability, they used Easelly to create …

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Be the Cool Teacher, Make Cell Signaling Easy!

Cell signaling is one of the most arid parts of the curriculum this semester, and my students have tons of papers to read of too many different subjects. I decided to be the cool teacher and instead of giving them 4 different papers to read (on top of everything else I already gave them to …

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