"This extension adds 4 themes to your gallery with more than 400 cliparts dealing with security at work. Better than bitmap, cliparts are vector graphics in ODF format: there is no lost of clarity when magnifying. In Draw, you may modify them or retrieve some parts to build your own signs"
Text to Mind Map converter: Convert your text or list of keywords to a mind map instantly. The text 2 mind map converter makes a mind map out of your bullet list. Also known as Text-2-mind-map converter or, shortly, Text2Mindmap.
Cool site I got from a colleague. Many different graphic representations we can use with our students.Definitely worth checking out. NOT JUST FOR SCIENCE!
A sure-fire winner for Pi Day (Mar 14): create Haiku poems about pi, called Pi-ku's. This is a great way to bring language arts, graphic arts, and mathematics together in one place!
An amazing science site with a large number of magnificent animations and graphics to help you explain science principles. Content suitable for older students.
http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Science
The Frayer Model draws on a student's prior knowledge to build connections among new concepts and creates a visual reference by which students learn to compare attributes and examples.
"The Frayer Model is a strategy that uses a graphic organizer for vocabulary building. This technique requires students to (1) define the target vocabulary words or concepts, and (2) apply this information by generating examples and non-examples. This information is placed on a chart that is divided into four sections to provide a visual representation for students.
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Brief Description
Students research online an influential woman, then create on the computer
a quilt block with text and graphics. Quilt blocks are then printed and
combined to form a quilt of connections.
ObjectivesStudents will:
Demonstrate comprehension of a famous woman's accomplishments through both
text and graphics.
Acquire knowledge of other women's accomplishments through their peers'
quilt blocks.
predominant mode of literacy depends on the technology and mass media it embraces (Sinatra, 1986).
Kellner (1998) proposes that multiple literacies are necessary to meet the challenges of today's society, literacies that include print literacy, visual literacy, aural literacy, media literacy, computer literacy, cultural literacy, social literacy, and ecoliteracy.
Learning through orderly, sequential, verbal-mathematical, left-hemisphere tasks is a pattern seen frequently in education (West, 1997). Those whose thought processes are predominantly in the right-hemisphere where visual-spatial and nonverbal cognition activities rule frequently may have difficulty capitalizing on a learning style that is not compatible with their abilities.
If visual literacy is regarded as a language, then there is a need to know how to communicate using this language, which includes being alert to visual messages and critically reading or viewing images as the language of the messages.
Technology, particularly the graphical user interface of the World Wide Web, requires skills for reading and writing visually in order to derive meaning from what is being communicated.
Because visual literacy precedes verbal literacy in human development,
learning evolves from the concrete to the abstract; visual symbols are nonverbal representations that precede verbal symbols (Sinatra, 1986).
West (1997) conveys an innovative mathematics approach whereby students “do” mathematics rather than “watch” mathematics. The technique emphasizes learning through interactive graphics without words. “The words go into an idea only after the idea has already settled in our mind”(West, p.
The literature suggests that using visual elements in teaching and learning yields positive results.