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By Shelly Terrell
"Learn how images can be powerful tools for teaching. Working with images allows students to visualize learning material. Some ideas for working with images in the classroom are book scavenger hunts, visual dictionaries, and class debates. Have students contribute and write about their own photos to a classroom photo-sharing account."
Use of images has always been a great facilitator of language learning...whether in one's native language, or another. Terrell's half-hour webinar offers numerous ideas for using images as well as sources for ideas.
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March 12, 11:49 PM
Data is everywhere and well-designed data graphics can be both beautiful and meaningful. As visualizations take center stage in a data-centric world, researchers and developers spend much time understanding and creating better visualizations. But they spend just as much time understanding how tools can help programmers and designers create visualizations faster, more effectively, and more enjoyably.
As any visualization practitioner will tell you, turning a dataset from raw stuff in a file to a final result in a picture is far from a single-track, linear path. Rather, there is a constant iteration of competing designs, tweaking and evaluating at once their pros and cons. The visualization research community has recognized the importance of keeping track of this process.
Read the complete article to learn more about the future of the practice and the tools that enable designers to create thoughtful infographics and visualizations... Via Lauren Moss Delete the scoop?
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