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 …
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 …
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 …
This is the second time we have a poster competition, and this year’s theme is “The future of neuroscience”. I made an infographic to be posted on social media, because we need to start spreading the word about the contest. The students must make a poster about what they think is the future of neuroscience, …
Cell signaling is one of the most arid parts of the curriculum this semester, and my students have tons of papers to read of too many different subjects. I decided to be the cool teacher and instead of giving them 4 different papers to read (on top of everything else I already gave them to …
Trying to find technology to describe mathematics is sometimes not easy. I have found that Easel.ly makes a great presentation tool for students to show their mastery of math standards while integrating other subject areas.
With the push on STEM and students collecting all kinds of data, my teacher colleagues often ask for ideas to allow students to present the data in different and more interesting ways. I often share the idea of using an infographic to display the students’ data. Infographics are everywhere! We see them used in TV …
