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Good visual arrangement for infographics is putting together graphic and visual elements in a manner that draws your reader's attention. The key to achieving simple, elegant and attractive content are ample whitespace and a well arranged layout. What is whitespace? White space is as its name defined-space that is unmarked in a piece of infographic or visual representation. It could be margins, padding or the space between columns, text and icons and design elements. Whitespace matters to create visually engaging content A page crammed full of text and images will appear busy. This makes the content difficult to read. It makes you unable to focus on the important stuff too. On the other hand, too much of white space can make your page look incomplete. It is always crucial to remember visually engaging content is usually clean and simple.

I love Instagram because it prompts me to take and share pictures of things that I might otherwise glance at then forget about. Before cell phones entered my life I rarely took pictures. Last week I took the picture that you see below. Almost as soon as it appeared in my Facebook feed via Instagram, my friend Kelly commented with, "shouldn't they be more concerned about weight than the number of people?" Kelly is a middle school math teacher so this picture was right in her wheelhouse of math prompts.

There is an argument for creating videos as a means of engagement, as an approach involving doing something a little different; something that will hopefully result in a higher likelihood of it being committed to long term memory. These are additional benefits. The real value in these tasks is their requirement for genuine higher order thinking skills, and the resulting assessment of student understanding that can be used in a meaningful way.

Interesting interview regarding the potential future of Digital Media Literacy

teaching resources for Art.

Design resources - links to online self-study

Apps for Poetry

Can download images as fonts and/or copy PNG files. Attribution is straightforward for web presence. 

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Using speech-to-text takes time to practice. Great article explaining the impact it had on one young learner.

Infographic on value of play

Great article about changing the conversations we have about educational technology

A great case-study from a teacher who published his first novel by himself. Lots of helpful lessons along the way, including how he got his cover designed, and suggestions on marketing.

Marching band - amazing! They use iPads to learn their routines.

Great overview for filmmaking. Lots of resources for teachers and students alike

Super helpful tips on slide design from TED's in-house expert

Some excellent, easy-to-follow tips here for film-making with your students