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Keri-Lee Beasley

Layout Cheat Sheet for Infographics : Visual arrangement tips - 0 views

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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.
Katie Day

Space Time Travel - Relativity Visualized - 0 views

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    Summary via the Scout Report (May 2012): "This site was created by two German physicists (Ute Kraus and Corvin Zahn) and it offers a "visual and intuitive approach to the theory of relativity." The site does not offer the basics dealing with the theory of relativity, but rather a novel approach to understanding what an object might look like while moving near the speed of light or what it might be like to "travel to the vicinity of a black hole and take a look-around." As the site notes, "Part of the difficulties in understanding relativity are due to the fact that relativistic effects contradict everyday experience." On the homepage, visitors can learn more in the Content area. Here they can watch remarkable visualizations such as Rolling Wheels, Sights that Einstein Could Not Yet See, and Accelerated Motion. The site also offers brief explanations of each visualization, along with links to additional resources. Finally, the site also includes a gallery of images and an FAQ area. [KMG]"
Jeffrey Plaman

Pixar's 22 Rules of Storytelling--Visualized | Co.Create | creativity + culture + commerce - 1 views

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    A while back, now-former Pixar storyboard artist Emma Coats tweeted a series of pearls of narrative wisdom she had gleaned from working at the studio. This list of 22 rules of storytelling was widely embraced as it was applicable to any writer or anyone who was in the business of communicating (which is pretty much everyone, including software developers). And much of its advice (e.g. "You gotta keep in mind what's interesting to you as an audience, not what's fun to do as a writer. They can be very different") is still as applicable as ever. Thanks to the efforts of one fan, though, the rules may now become even more eminently shareable.
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    Pixar's 22 Rules of Storytelling--Visualized By @joeberkowitz http://t.co/4rapIbGYav via @FastCoCreate
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    Pixar's 22 Rules of Storytelling--Visualized By @joeberkowitz http://t.co/4rapIbGYav via @FastCoCreate
Katie Day

The USC Shoah Foundation for Visual History & Education - genocides - 0 views

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    "the USC Shoah Foundation Institute for Visual History and Education reflects the broadened mission of the Institute: to overcome prejudice, intolerance, and bigotry-and the suffering they cause-through the educational use of the Institute's visual history testimonies. Today the Institute reaches educators, students, researchers, and scholars on every continent, and supports efforts to collect testimony from the survivors and witnesses of other genocides."
Keri-Lee Beasley

Are You A Visual Thinker? - YouTube - 0 views

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    Incredible video about people who are visual thinkers (estimated to be over 60% of the population). Great pre-cursor to visual note-taking.
Keri-Lee Beasley

5 Ways Students Can Visually Explore the News - 3 views

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    From Free Technology for Teachers, this blog post highlights 5 ways students can visually explore the news. Great for humanities
Katie Day

Visual Note-taking - Student Projects - LibGuides at Springfield Township High School - 0 views

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    resources related to teaching students to take visual notes
David Caleb

Reading photographs - 1 views

  • Photographs have tremendous power to communicate information. But they also have tremendous power to communicate misinformation, especially if we’re not careful how we read them. Reading photographs presents a unique set of challenges. Students can learn to use questions to decode, evaluate, and respond to photographic images.
  • What happened just before this moment, or just after it?
  • The photograph of a crowd of jubilant Iraqis toppling the statue of Saddam Hussein in Baghdad on April 9, 2003, is one of the most common images of the recent war in Iraq. A closeup shot shows a crowd of primarily Iraqis toppling the statue. A wide shot of the same scene would have revealed that the crowd in the square was made up of primarily US forces and journalists.
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  • One type of photography in which setting is very important is travel photography.
  • Using landmarks, monuments, or famous natural elements in a photograph is a core technique for evoking a sense of place.
  • The photographer selects the focal point not only by focusing the camera but also through other techniques.
  • shutter speed to bring only one element into focus immediately elevates that to the most important part of the image.
  • one element in the photograph is strongly backlit, it may seem to glow and thus draw the viewer’s attention.
  • What is the photographer’s thought process as she composes, frames, shoots and selects an image? Listen as photographer Lisa Maizlish narrates the decisions she made in photographing the students featured on the PBS reality show American High.
  • viewers have to decide how to interpret a photograph’s context
  • information about the people, events, setting, and so on are made explicit by the photographer — there are distinct visual clues that tell us who the people are, what they are doing, and where and when the photograph was taken.
  • implicit — implied but not clearly communicated by the photographer, or left to be inferred by the viewer.
  • identities of the people
  • unclear
  • their purpose may be unknown
  • time and place may be difficult or impossible to discern.
  • simple "W" questions can be open to debate.
  • Viewers may not even realize that they are making those assumptions
  • Just as successful written communication requires that the writer and reader speak the same language, successful visual communication requires that the photographer and viewer share a common "visual language" of signs, clues, and assumptions.
  • Were your assumptions correct? Can you always trust your first instinct? (And even having read the caption, how much do we really know about these girls and their lives?)
  • a different culture might ask why this round brown object is
  • we have to be careful that we have enough cultural background in common with the photographer to correctly interpret what we see.
  • The photograph by itself tells us very little about what’s going on; we probably could have invented any number of captions, and you’d have believed us!
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    Reading images - lots of good strategies here
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    Reading photos
Keri-Lee Beasley

Number Picture - Crowd-Sourcing New Ways For People To Visualize Data - 0 views

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    AMAZING site which lets you create beautiful data visualizations. Perfect for exhibition, maths, infographics etc
Keri-Lee Beasley

Visual Culture Online | Off Book | PBS Arts - YouTube - 0 views

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    Awesome vid about Visual Culture online. Not suitable for kids, but very interesting and funny. Finally I understand where Nyan Cat came from.  Watch to the end to see how to make a meme. Very amusing.
Keri-Lee Beasley

Discover Your Twitter Character on Visual.ly | Visual.ly - 1 views

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    Neat little infographic showing your Twitter Character. Can also compare with someone else 
Keri-Lee Beasley

Thinking Visually: Keyword Searches and Images | Ms. Pana Says - 1 views

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    Pana has a great lesson plan for linking keywords, searching and visuals for G1 students.
Jeffrey Plaman

SeeS.aw - See what I saw - 0 views

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    Cool visualization of Twitter
Jeffrey Plaman

Aurasma - 2 views

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    The World's First Visual Browser, bringing the physical and virtual worlds together. Aurasma is a free augmented reality platform that lets you discover, create and share amazing virtual content, integrated into the real world.
Katie Day

Google Cultural Institute - explore by DECADE, PERSON, EVENT, PLACE, etc - 0 views

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    visual timeline of culture - perfect for researching decades and history
Keri-Lee Beasley

Viewing Art to Start Students Reading | 4 O'Clock Faculty - 1 views

  • Replacing written text with artwork, photographs, or illustrations offers a number of advantages, especially early in the school year.  Visual imagery is very accessible and a lot less intimidating to a wide range of learners including non-readers, struggling readers, and English language learners. This enables these students a greater chance to practice some of the forms of complex thinking that they will need as the year progresses such as using text evidence, identifying theme, and making connections.
  • Another advantage the visual imagery has over written text is that it is very fast to decode.
  • Artworks can and should be treated just as a written text. By doing so, students can get their academic thinking started early, laying a foundation for them to build on throughout their school year.
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    Interesting blog post advocating for the use of analysing images in support of literacy skills.
Louise Phinney

GraphWords.com - Visualize 'friend' word - 1 views

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    Interesting visual tool - you type in a word, it generates / finds words from the thesaurus and creates a mind map
Jeffrey Plaman

10x10 · 100 Words and Pictures that Define the Time · by Jonathan Harris - 1 views

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    Great news visualization tool pulling images from the top search engines. Links to the the news stories.
Jeffrey Plaman

4 Steps to Viral, Or How to Create Infographics That Blow up the Web | Visual.ly Blog - 0 views

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    Great piece talking about the core of what makes a good infographic (or anything else really)... STORY
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