iPads, MakerEd and More in Education

"Today, students have more homework than the generations of students before them.

They also have plenty of distractions in and out of the classroom like social media, social media marketers, online gaming and online streaming.

With countless distractions and piling assignments, holding students’ attention in the classroom can be challenging. Helping them to absorb and retain new information requires more and more creative approaches.

Research shows that presenting information visually makes a huge difference. Visual content gets processed faster and remembered for longer periods of time (as opposed to plain text). That’s why using visuals in the classroom is a great approach to helping your students learn effectively, and even enjoy what they’re learning.

So it’s time to step away from traditional teaching materials, and embrace an arsenal of visual content. Equipped with the right online design tool, you can create engaging visuals easily and without any design experience at all.

We’ll cover 10 different kinds of visuals that can help you engage your students in the classroom:

     * Process infographics
     * Informational infographics
     * List infographics
     * Comparison infographics
     * Research reports
     * Lesson plans
     * Mind maps
     * Progress reports
     * Charts and graphs
     * Posters"

Genial.ly is a good web tool you can use to create engaging visual content. It is somewhat similar to Thinglink we reviewed before. You can use Genial.ly to create interactive  presentations, educational posters, infographics, microsites, images and enrich them with a wide variety of multimedia content. The interactivity part is what gives your visual content dynamism and makes it engaging, For instance, you can create a classroom poster or an animated infographic where you embed interactive content such as  audio files, video clips, documents..etc which students can access with a single click. ‘You can even enrich your content with hundreds of external providers like Spotify, Google Maps, social media, Amazon, YouTube, the News, and more!’

5 iPad Apps for Creating Beautiful Quote Visuals to Use in Class
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 Educatorstechnology    Wednesday, September 12, 2018  
Starting your day with reading an inspirational quote can help lighten up your whole day and boost your motivation and overall moral. And if you are a teacher you might want to share these sources of inspiration and wisdom with your students too. In today’s post we are introducing you to some of the popular iPad apps you can use to access and read a wide variety of motivational quotes and nuggets of wisdoms from well-known authors and intellectual figures. We are also sharing with you another set of apps to help you turn those inspiration quotes into beautiful images and visuals to share with your students or print out and use in your classroom.