Nowadays, nearly everything about anything can be found online and often in a much more appealing form than what’s typically found at school. Who’d want to pay attention to a drawn-out explanation, copying endless equations off a dusty blackboard, when they could have the essential points presented in plain language with a direct and real-time demonstration (possibly with some funky music in the background), all in a few minutes of a YouTube video?
Who says that sharing information can’t be beautiful, not only useful? Aesthetics in general is a big part of our lives, and we do respond to it consciously or not. The modern age we live in is all about feeding on information – everyone has it at the tip of their fingers.
Being an educator is quite demanding. Even though there are various seminars, classes and books on how to improve your teaching methods and behavior during classes in general, not everything can be explained in this matter.
An educator’s job is getting harder and harder. The fact is that students can find out practically anything within seconds, so providing them with a new piece of information can be quite challenging.
Nobody liked teachers shouting “Pay attention” when we were schoolchildren. They interrupted our “non-educational activities” which were much more fun than teachers. But they did the job. Teachers got our attention, even if it lasted for just a few minutes.
Recently we made available the ability to upload your own font. The article below will walk you through how to go about doing this and what you will need. Step 1: You will need an easel.ly pro account Step 2: Select “Upload Assets” from under your login name Step 3: Next select “Upload New …
Before you would need to select a category of objects and then scroll to the particular object you needed, it was a real pain in the neck! Now all you need to do is go to Objects and enter a search for an object, simple and much faster. 1) Select Objects within the designer …
Below is a quick infographic that I put together to show you how our new charts look! You still create charts in the same way as before, couldn’t be simpler. Try this: 1) Hover over the Pie Chart on the right 2) Hover over the Bar Chart at the bottom 3) Refresh the page and …
Currently at the moment we allow you to download your work in three different formats: Low Quality (jpeg) High Quality (jpeg) PDF You can find these options just off the “Download” menu. Note: Downloading in PDF is a good solution for printing your work to specific dimensions.
The most requested feature “Search” is now available through Easelly! Below is a quick screenshot of how to get to it (Redbox). Drop a question in the comments if you need any help.
Editor’s Note: This is a guest post by Dr. Samantha Fecich, Ms. Alicia Vanderhoof, & Mr. Derek Witmer What is Easelly? At times as an instructor, it is necessary to display information in creative ways. For instance, a teacher can document factual information through infographics. Easelly is a tool that can be used to create infographics. …
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The following post was written by Claire Roper of Zilchoo who managed to grow page views 3x by using infographics created through Easelly. “Tell me, I forget. Show me, I remember. Involve me, I understand” – Chinese proverb Images are paramount when engaging with any audience, allowing your followers to consume information in bite-sized pieces. Infographics can be your secret …
