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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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 …
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.
