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Nicki Hambleton's fabulous collection of resources to support Visual Thinking

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

"Do our students know that "literacy" moves beyond reading and writing? Most importantly, how do we begin to break our traditional understanding of literacy to include wider meaning and contexts? It has to start in the classroom. For many of our traditional classrooms, reading and writing are the core values that are focused on when it comes to literacy. We need to show students that "Literacy" moves beyond reading and writing and can encompass: cultural literacy, media literacy, visual literacy, digital literacy and much more."

"With the many enhancements to mobile devices, multimedia websites, e-books, interactive graphics, and social media, there's no question that the nature of reading has changed during the past decade. But has the way reading is taught in elementary schools changed as well? And what should teachers be doing to get students ready for the realities of modern reading?"

Interesting blog post advocating for the use of analysing images in support of literacy skills.

Excellent design suggestions across a range of contexts.

Resources by Ken Shelton for creating Google Sites with Pizzazz

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

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.

Nice kinetic typography examples here. Not entirely suitable for students, but some very good ideas nonetheless

Another great took for creating infographics via @ajmccarthy

Great rules for combining fonts

Want to use a font  you've seen online but don't know which one it is? Upload a screenshot of it & this website will do the rest

Put the link to an image in and it will generate a custom palette, complete with hexcodes for you

Some great ideas here

Great slide share suitable for teachers to remind about great presentation design.

Make gorgeous visuals with this tool

Grabs data from websites into useable formats for infographics

Infographic chart maker awesomeness