Tag: visual
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On the Ed Tech Radar: Super Cool Photo Editor
You may have come across online photo editors, but this one is super cool intuitive, very user-friendly, really. Give it a try . What I love about Pixlr besides all its fun features, photo edition and enhancements, it has an app for android and iOS devices. Whether is on your computer or in your…
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Images in the Classroom – Now and Then
I’ve always had this natural inclination to add images to whatever lesson I was teaching, and now even more so when I see the neuroscientific reason for doing it. James Zull, in his book “the Art of Changing the Brain”, mentions that “Our concrete experience contains much of the information we need for understanding, because…
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Picturetelling in the Park with Jamie Keddie
I met Jamie Keddie, from the very resourceful site, lessonstream, in Brighton, on my very first day at IATEFL 2011. He was part of my Twitter network and, at the pub we were at, he just said, “I’m that guy with the dog as a thumbnail”. Yes. Everything about Jamie has a visual cue! However,…
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Taking Learning Into a Visual Experience Through Infographics
Evolving, progressing, developing. Not always an easy task, mainly for very busy English teachers who have heavy schedules, different groups with varied age range and levels of proficiency. But still, they are up to the challenge of after a long day of work to come to a Teacher Development Course to keep improving to become…
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Cool Tool of the Week – DeepZoomPix
http://bit.ly/BBd8Y Microsoft is testing an online tool called DeepZoomPix, which gives us an interesting overview to our photo albums. I chose to connect it to my Flickr account and grabbed some of my food photos. Here’s the result. Pretty neat way of visualizing images. Which of your pictures would you choose to test DeepZoomPix? Would…
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Cool Tool of the Week – Toon Doo
by carlaarena | Create your own Cartoon at www.toondoo.com I’ve been a fan of Toon Doo creations, but just as a mere spectator of its creative uses mainly for pedagogical purposes. Above is my little share for a new course I’m designing. In fact, one very very cool use of Toon Doo was shared with…
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Cool Tool of the Week – A visual dictionary
Shahi – A visual dictionary | Blachan Lab Originally uploaded by carlaarena Shahi is a fantastic tool for educational use. Just type a word, you’ll see Flickr photos related to it on the left, plus explanations with examples of how the word is used. I can already picture many ways to use them with students.…
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Cool Tool of the Week – MoodBox
Because of a Mashable post, I decided to have some fun with the alpha service MoodBox. You draw, doodle, add photos and avatars in different backgrounds to announce to friends how you’re feeling. You have to download a desktop app, but it’s pretty straightforward and fast. At this point, you need an invitation to join.…
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When Will the Visual Revolution Get to Our Classrooms?
More and more we see the power of graphics, visualization, images, videos to convey a message, to touch our souls, to sell. Visual representations have been part of society much before we started using written code to communicate. In fact, images were used to record historical facts and communicate ideas in a group of people…
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Flickr Educational Power
As a group of wonderful, inspired educators – Alice Barr, Ana Maria Menezes, Bob Sprankle, Cheryl Oakes, Daniela Munca, Jane Petring, João Alves, Mary Hillis, Nina Liyulkun, Ronaldo Júnior, and Susan Burg – get ready to co-moderate a free six-week online session, Images4Education, through the Electronic Village Online, I’ve been totally immersed in Flickrverse. My…