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Working with Images-Shelly Terrell

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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."

Jim Lerman's curator insight, December 28, 2012 1:39 AM

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.

Lynnette Van Dyke's curator insight, December 28, 2012 8:13 PM

Great appeal for today's students...

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A Brief History of Information Design and Visual Storytelling

Humankind has been telling complex stories through simple visuals long before you saw your first infographic at Mashable. History is humbling, let's go back in

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Karen Dietz's curator insight, February 6, 4:24 PM

If you are into data and storytelling, then this brief overview is for you. The slideshare program quickly explains data visualization through time.


Of course, how data is displayed -- if done well -- can tell its own story.  The next step is to give a presentation as a story, and tell the story of the data as you are doing so. 


Until then, enjoy this quick historical review of visual storytelling.


This review was written by Karen Dietz for her curated content on business storytelling at www.scoop.it/t/just-story-it