Watch the Video Chat Here and Read the Notes Below: We chatted with Megan Schonhar, an English Teacher at Greer Middle College Charter High School in South Carolina and author of the article, Using Easel.ly To Create Infographics in the Classroom. Her article can be found in the Technology in Literacy Education blog by the Technology …
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Here at Easel.ly, we love giving back whenever possible. Every year, a portion of our profits go to supporting events and people all over the world, and we love teaming up with people who do great work in their communities. One of these people is Mardie Rees, an artist in Gig Harbor, WA. As part …
Today is Education Support Professionals Day, a day to recognize the many people who help educate our kids and support our school districts. These are the people that get your kids off to school safely, who manage all the paperwork at the front desk, who make sure they’re eating a good lunch, and who keep …
In the States, it’s the start of the Back to School season! If you’re a parent, you’ve probably already hustled through the store aisles trying to find those pencils, notebooks, and backpacks. If you’re an educator, you’ve probably spent the better part of your summer gaining new knowledge yourself, training for new district standards, and …
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School is out for the summer (in the United States at least), but that doesn’t mean teachers aren’t already gearing up for the next session. If you’re a teacher and you find yourself already bogged down in lesson plans and deciding how best to organize your classroom, here are a few ways that infographics can …
It’s Teacher Appreciation Day, which is part of the longer Teacher Appreciation Week in the United States. Today is the day to let your teachers, your children’s teachers, and your college professors know how awesome they are (or were). They don’t hear it often, so make sure you let them know.
Are you using infographics to explain or teach the election? If not, you should be. The election is a treasure trove for infographics and data representation. There are so many things to analyze during election season–candidates, issues, numbers, polls, statistics–this is the infographic lover’s jackpot. Without visuals, we surely would drown. The 2016 election is …
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If you’re the English teacher or drama coach, you’re probably pretty up on your Hamlet and MacBeth. The rest of us–not so much. These works can be pretty daunting for students and mere mortals alike. Even with Sparknotes, Thugnotes, and reading Amazon reviews, the classics are tough to understand. They’re classics for a reason. Students …
Family tree infographic My students are reading “One hundred years of solitude” with another teacher, and they told me how difficult they find to read a book with so many characters, many of them sharing the same names. I remember that when I was in high school and we read the same book, I made …
With 2015 almost out the door, we thought it was about time to reflect on all the fun we had with all of you and all the new things we got to learn through making wonderful visual content together. Here are some of the infographics you’ve shared with us over the year: Average cost of …
Looking for ways to include error analysis, one of the big CCSS mathematical practices, in a unit on Linear Programming. I gave each student a different linear program word problem and had them solve using Desmos graphing calculator (desmos.com). Once they had solved it to the best of their ability, they used Easelly to create …
Brain Awareness Week is almost here! I spent a big part of the year planning the events for BAW and this year is not the exception, my students and I have been working on some posters for our big event, this week we are working on a talk we will be giving to little kids …
