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Tania Hinojosa

The Importance of a Great Book Cover Design « Speak Without Interruption - 0 views

  • Now, the books cover has become one of the most important selling components to a book
  • The average person spends 8 seconds looking at the front cover and 15 seconds on the back. It is a fact, that the front cover of a book is what draws the initial attention from the buyer, if he doesn’t like the cover, he won’t look any closer at the book.
  • The title, size and clarity of the text, the colors, and the size of the book are amongst the top four.
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The Millions : Judging Books by Their Covers: U.S. Vs. U.K. - 0 views

  • Book cover design is a strange exercise in which one attempts to distill iconic imagery from hundreds of pages of text.
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Center for Media Literacy - 0 views

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      Try some of those links,they have interest information. Profesional development Best practices Media and values
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New Media vs Traditional Media | AIBD - Asia Pacific Institute for Broadcasting Develop... - 0 views

  • he mass media has at least three important roles to play: to inform, to educate and to influence opinion.
  • is changing the participation habits of the audiences.
  • Mass media enables people to participate in events and interact with communities over long distance.
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  • One needs only to think of democratic elections, World Cup soccer and royal weddings to appreciate the intensity with which people can share in these events.
  • All these worked until a decade ago when new media emerged with all the fanfare of technological innovation.
  • Welcome to the digital and internet revolution!
  • The new media, digital broadcasting and the internet are sweeping away the limitations of the analogue world and weakening the grip of government-owned platforms.
  • Most technologies described as “new media” are digital, and often have characteristics of being networkable, dense, compressible, interactive and impartial.
  • The modern revolution enables everybody to become a journalist at little cost and with global reach
  • MEDIA AND GOOD GOVERNANCE
  • A responsibility of the media is to ensure fair, accurate and impartial reporting. A set of codes of ethics is essential to maintaining standards for media professionals and organizations.
  • A recent study revealed that a young group spent 16 hours a week to surf the internet, sometimes unnoticed by their parents.
  • COLLABORATING FOR SUCCESS
  • Messages need to be consistent and cohesive. Working online also requires keen communication skills.
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Reading Visualization Strategy: Show Students How Visualizing Affects the Reading Exper... - 0 views

  • A middle school lesson plan that expands on the during- and post-reading strategy of visualization, helping students understand its impact on their reading process.
  • students are invited to draw what they picture as they’re reading, but extending that activity in a meaningful way can prove challenging
  • Procedure
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  • Assessment
  • Possible Extensions
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      Se podría hacer con el libro que se le asigna a cada alumno cada mes o con lecturas del libro de texto. Muy útil para mis alumnos de ESL , ya que la imágenes seguramente les van a ayuda a comprender mejor el texto.
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Why Does Visualizing Data Matter? - YouTube - 0 views

  • tableausoftware Tableau helps you quickly discover patterns in your data that unveil trends and reveal unexpected insights. Join us as we tap the minds of Tableau's Director of Visual Analysis, Jock Mackinlay, and three customers to learn why one well-crafted visualization is worth more than a hundred-thousand lines of data.Featuring:+ Jock Mackinlay, Director of Visual Analysis, Tableau Software+ Dana Zuber, Vice President-Strategic Planning, Wells Fargo+ Andy Kriebel, Manager-Trade Spend Optimization, Coca-Cola Refreshments+ Lynzi Ziegenhagen, Vice President-Technology, Aspire Public SchoolsLearn more about how visual analysis can help you in these free whitepapers. http://www.tableausoftware.com/whitepapers/visual-analysis-everyonehttp://www.tableausoftware.com/learn/whitepapers/tableau-visual-guidebook Category: People & Blogs License: Standard YouTube License
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PBS Teachers | Digital Media Literacy - 0 views

  • be media creators as well as media consumers
  • How do you help your students understand the ethics and etiquette of this landscape?
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Media Smarts: Kids Learn How to Navigate the Multimedia World | Edutopia - 0 views

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      Dont forget to watch the video. Develop critical thinking through teaching medialiteracy
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Media Literacy Defined : National Association for Media Literacy Education - 1 views

  • eries of communication competencies, including the ability to ACCESS, ANALYZE, EVALUATE, and COMMUNICATE information in a variety of forms, including print and non-print messages.
  • Media literacy empowers people to be both critical thinkers and creative producers of an increasingly wide range of messages using image, language, and sound. It is the skillful application of literacy skills to media and technology messages.
  • Media refers to all electronic or digital means and print or artistic visuals used to transmit messages. Literacy is the ability to encode and decode symbols and to synthesize and analyze messages. Media literacy is the ability to encode and decode the symbols transmitted via media and the ability to synthesize, analyze and produce mediated messages. Media education is the study of media, including ‘hands on’ experiences and media production. Media literacy education is the educational field dedicated to teaching the skills associated with media literacy.
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  • Media literacy: The ability to ACCESS, ANALYZE, EVALUATE, and COMMUNICATE information in a variety of forms-is interdisciplinary by nature
  • To become a successful student, responsible citizen, productive worker, or competent and conscientious consumer, individuals need to develop expertise with the increasingly sophisticated information and entertainment media that address us on a multi-sensory level, affecting the way we think, feel, and behave.
  • Today’s information and entertainment technologies communicate to us through a powerful combination of words, images, and sounds
  • understanding our media environment.
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MediaLiteracy.com -- Gateway Site for Media Literacy Education - 0 views

  • Media's benefits are accompanied by these concerns: Fewer voices, as media ownership is consolidated in the hands of fewer than 10 wealthy individuals and global corporations News bias and public relations spin Violence packaged as entertainment Children and teens targeted by corporate advertisers Digital photo and film manipulation Media effects on community and personal relationships
  • Kids and adults love media! Media products entertain us, inform us, and help us connect to our community and the world.
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      We need to look for a balance. We need critical thinking skills to make decisions to be literate in a media age.
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Interactive Dynamics for Visual Analysis - ACM Queue - 0 views

  • A taxonomy of tools that support the fluent and flexible use of visualizations
  • Visualization provides a powerful means of making sense of data. By mapping data attributes to visual properties such as position, size, shape, and color, visualization designers leverage perceptual skills to help users discern and interpret patterns within data.1
  • The goal of this article is to assist designers, researchers, professional analysts, procurement officers, educators, and students in evaluating and creating visual analysis tools.
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  • VISUALIZE Perhaps the most fundamental operation in visual analysis is to specify a visualization of data: analysts must indicate which data is to be shown and how it should be depicted.
  • Some visualization system designers have explored alternative approaches.
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Teaching Visual Literacy to Students - 0 views

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Duffelmeyer and Ellertson, Critical Visual Literacy - 0 views

  • Critical Visual Literacy: Multimodal Communication Across the Curriculum" makes the case for expanding the pedagogical space and communication possibilities in undergraduate communication-intensive and linked (learning community) courses by allowing students to create multimodal texts that deal with civic and cultural and/or discipline-specific themes.
  • To be literate in the twenty-first century means possessing the skills necessary to effectively construct and comfortably navigate multiplicity, to manipulate and critique information, representations, knowledge, and arguments in multiple media from a wide range of sources, and to use multiple expressive technologies including those offered by print, visual, and digital tools
  • Visual culture is not limited to the study of images or media, but extends to everyday practices of seeing and showing, especially those that we take to be immediate and unmediated
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  • In our present culture, in which our information often reaches us in technological and visual forms, the work Berlin described above extends, in the 21st century, beyond exclusively and perhaps even primarily written texts.
  • education [should] concentrate, not on the transfer of information nor on the reproduction of value systems, but on the urgent task of equipping people with the necessary "thinking tools" to make sense of historical processes so that individuals may become better at assessing the "likely" verisimilitude of any account or representation of the world
  • Critical Technological and Visual Literacies in CAC: An Organic Connection
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