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Very important article from the NY Times about the need for visual literacy.

visually map your arguments ....

Though this article is written for the business sector, there are many great parallels with how we experience social media's acceptance in the educational realm. The suggestions that are given are readily applied to our setting, as well. In the enterprise, many employees think blogs are merely websites on which people talk about their cat or their latest meal. Many don't know the differences between and advantages of such tools as message boards, blogs, and wikis. They have heard of these terms in passing, but the demands of their day-to-day jobs have prevented them from recognizing the distinct benefits of each tool. Solution: It is useless to advocate for social media tools in a vacuum. Unless you're describing a solution to a practical problem, busy workers will not respond to buzzwords like "wiki," "blog," and "community." Your client usually has about a 30-second attention span in which you can sell a social media tool. An aide in my arsenal has been the excellent videos by Lee Lefever at Common Craft. Lee visually explains social media concepts "In Plain English." Common Craft videos quickly explain complex and sometimes unfamiliar technologies in a few minutes, sans the buzzwords, hype, and sensationalism. Problem: Cynical Clients Who Don't Want to Share Information Unfortunately, some potential SharePoint users balk at the technology because they have no desire to share their knowledge for the benefit of the organization. These individuals tend to equate their knowledge with job security; therefore, they feel nervous about sharing out of fear that they wouldn't be needed any more.

Copyright issues within the world of Web 2.0 are just as valid as in the real world. 'Web 2.0, IPR and You' is a new animation that highlights how to ascertain copyright ownership and seek the correct permissions before reusing any audio, visual, textual or multimedia material found online." />www.jisc.ac.uk/news/stories/2008/12/web2rights.aspx

There is a better and easier way! Your chemistry help is on its way. Learn your general chemistry visually in 24 hours!entire general chemistry course into 24 chapter...

ought I had a fairly good grip on encouraging students to create higher-order connections to vocabulary through both vocab visualisations that we create in class, and through creating hyperlinked connections to definitions of vocab on my teacher blog.

great visual browser

Arizona State, for example, recently used this method to transform an introductory women and gender studies course. Florida Gulf Coast University put its "Understanding the Visual and Performing Arts" course completely online. Portland State University fo

Engage your students with a totally visual computer simulation that lets them learn and practice all the key personal financial skills they'll need to succeed in life. Virtual Business - Personal Finance will present your students with challenges around bank accounts, credit and debit cards, bills, credit scores, taxes, insurance, investing, and more.

Also includes virtual business, sports, marketing and other..

Very cool visual thesaurus

Creator of Wordle compares all USA presidency inaugeration speeches. Here he compares Obamas speech (left) with all other president speeches combined (right).

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Pablo Picasso created 'Bull' around the Christmas of 1945. 'Bull' is a suite of eleven lithographs that have become a master class in how to develop an artwork from the academic to the abstract. In this series of images, all pulled from a single stone, Picasso visually dissects the image of a bull to discover its essential presence through a progressive analysis of its form.

Explore and process knowledge. I may try this with a class for note taking.

This library has great resource books and tutorials on anything from authoring of web based tests, to using audacity, to basic numeracy....a really fab selection of visually stimulating book like interfaces. You can download it as exe files (some gave me hassles and showed up as trojans but was fine or you can download the actual reader to view it with

An online thesaurus and dictionary of over 145,000 words that you explore using an interactive map.

Virtual science comes alive.

Virtual science comes alive

Educational materials on genetics, bioscience and health topics.

These resources for learning about genetics by the University of Utah's Genetic Science Learning Center include interactive visualizations, 3D animations and activities. Student activities include taking a "tour" of DNA, a chromosome or a protein, building a DNA molecule, or exploring the inside of a cell. The university is also building a sister site, Teach.Genetics, with print-and-go lesson plans and supplemental materials for some channels on the Learn.Genetics site.

Create visual widgets of your own