Visual+thinking

=A Picture is Worth...=

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=Teen Tech Week - March 4-10 [|Geek Out @ your library]Ideas for the week?= Robotics team exhibition How to fix your Facebook Timeline Twitter tips Privacy issues Social media Online gaming The history of video games - museum walk Hacking a Wi eBooks Online game creators (Alice, Scratch) Showcase student-created digital music, video, games

Visual bookmarking

 * [|Pinterist]- visual bookmarking with an online "pin board" such as you might see in a design studio. Check out Education topic here.
 * Issues of [|copyright] with Pinterist.
 * [|Pinterist for schools]
 * [|How Homeschoolers use Pinterist]
 * [|Instagrams - (iphone app) transfer]pictures from your cell to Facebook, Twitter, other platforms. Why is it so [|popular?]

Infographics
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 * [|12 Great Visualizations That Made History] from [|visual.ly blog]


 * [|Google and memory]from Daily Infographic


 * [|Cool Infographics]blog
 * Sample Infographic on using Google for search [|"Get More Out of Google"]from Educational Technology Guy blog
 * Try this! Use "infographic" with your search term in Google. Ex. "infographic oscars"
 * [|Gapminder:] For a Fact-based World View
 * [|Spartanguide] on Infographics

On your computer

 * Using [|Microsoft Word]to create Infographics. Create placeholders for selected text and select SmartArt to create graphics.

Educator tools

 * **Resources for using [|infographics as a creative assessment in the classroom]from Kathie Schrock.**
 * Resources for making [|Infographics]Julie Gellar's collection of free online infographic tools for K-12
 * What is an [|Infographic] (Spartan Guides)
 * Infographics [|Lessons (]Spartan Guides)
 * [|More Than Words Can Say]: Inforgraphics - a how-to with infographics in the classroom.

Coming tools to create your own infographics

 * Coming soon
 * Visual.ly - [|Upload] your infographics, tools coming.
 * infogr.am - Make charts, infographics (coming soon.)

Try this ! Create your own

 * Local programs = Word, Excel, Paint, Moviemaker,
 * Cloud programs
 * Glogster
 * [|OpenClipArt]
 * [|Aviary Image editor]
 * [|Aviary Vector editor]
 * [|Sumo Paint]
 * [|Pixlr]- open photo editor

Creating the lesson plan for an [|infographic assignment from Schrock]

Example [|Data] from Census 1940-2010: How Has America Changed? [|Infographic]from Census 1940-2010: How Has American Changed? [|Scale of the Universe 2] Use scroll bar to enter "out" of space

New standards (draft format) for [|Teacher-Librarians and Technology Facilitators]
=This Twitter World=
 * 1) superbookbowl on Twitter - book trash talking on the Twitterverse during Super Bowl. What will you tweet during the Oscars?

=For the Love of Books=

This takes 15 min. but is well worth the time, if you love books or great animation.