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Photos of happy, smiling faces on patient education websites may engage readers, but they also may have a negative impact on older adults' comprehension of vital health information, especially those elderly patients who are the least knowledgeable about their medical condition to begin with, suggests a new study.

The Smiling Stars are one of the creative child learning center in Noida providing early childhood care and education. Our mission is child development, education and growth through play way and Montessori methodology.

The Smiling Stars curriculum is a complete solution to the Modern Preschool Education.The Smiling Stars education has gained rapid popularity in last few years. The Smiling Stars curriculum provides well-planned schedule for teaching the children with care and fun.

Following the news article, there are "Tips from Bob Steele, a retired UBC professor of art education, for parents or caregivers on using art as a tool for developing a child's literacy" (Drawing for learning, deck).

Welcome to the 'ArtInspired' wiki. Here you may find visual art ideas and resources to inspire and motivate your lessons, artwork and art curriculum. For educational purposes only. Used primarily for student use.

The main objective of the World of Images collection is to provide copyright-free photographs for use in the development of quality educational material.

Picnik Acquired by Google.

via @katciz on Twitter. These are teaching guides to go with the Out My Window interactive documentaries at highrise.nfb.ca

"Drawing on case studies from news media to visualization research, we identify distinct genres of narrative visualization. We characterize these design differences, together with interactivity and messaging, in terms of the balance between the narrative flow intended by the author (imposed by graphical elements and the interface) and story discovery on the part of the reader (often through interactive exploration). Our framework suggests design strategies for narrative visualization, including promising under-explored approaches to journalistic storytelling and educational media."

Thinkfinity.org is the cornerstone of Verizon Foundation's literacy, education and technology initiatives. Our goal is to improve student achievement in traditional classroom settings and beyond by providing high-quality content and extensive professional development training.

An online library of free videos for learners everywhere - find resources to help you learn just about anything, meet people who make a difference in their communities, and even discover new parts of the world. And Next Vista for Learning wants to post your educational videos online, too. Everyone has an insight to share and yours may be just what some student or teacher somewhere needs!

Images from around the world that can be freely used for non-profit educational purposes

NCTE and IRA are working together to provide educators and students with access to the highest quality practices and resources in reading and language arts instruction through free, Internet-based content.

eduTecher is a non-profit web resource that was created in 2008. The website's sole purpose is to help educators around the world better integrate technology into their classrooms and schools. eduTecher offers links to valuable websites, product reviews, as well as hosting lesson plans and activities for teachers to use with their classrooms.

website for collecting text, image, etc.from web pages. Might be usful for students doing research on the web. Very visual, drag and drop interface.

can make interesting cards or used to encourage students to practise their creative writing skills

flickr in education