Monday, November 12, 2012

Koehler Center Event: Using Clickers to Enhance Student Learning


 
 
        

 

 

Koehler Center Event: Using Clickers to Enhance Student Learning

Dr. Tim Stelzer from the Department of Physics at the University of Illinois presented at our Koehler Event about pedagogical motivation  and the impact of using i>clicker in the classroom. Stelzer provided some best practices and success stories.
Below are some photos from our event!
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kate marshall posted: "We've mentioned infographics before and we share them with you quite frequently, but we haven't yet devoted a separate post to the process by which one can make an infographic. As the revelry of fall fades away, Thanksgiving seems ever-distant, and the re"
 

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Infographics

We've mentioned infographics before and we share them with you quite frequently, but we haven't yet devoted a separate post to the process by which one can make an infographic. As the revelry of fall fades away, Thanksgiving seems ever-distant, and the reading keeps coming, why not mix things up with an infographic?
Infographics are visual representations of data built around a theme. In telling their story, infographics usually have a mix of several small pictographs, a fair amount of data presented in chart/graph form, and a few short paragraphs and key sentences.
Consider my favorite (meta-) example:
Image of lego blocks moving from order to disorder as a result of sorting and organization to show data presentation.
Edudemic has a nice summary of the background and educational theory of infographics in their Ultimate Guide to Infographics. They've also gathered an informative assortment of education infographics. While the story each infographic tells is interesting, the ways in which the creators have used color, data, images, fonts, and manipulated the size of different design elements provide great examples for those of us thinking about making our own infographics.
You can use the resources below to create one (or multiple) infographics to start discussion with your students. What a great way to illustrate different perspectives, time frames, or sub-topics in a quick and engaging format.
Alternately, it seems to me that creating infographics could be an intriguing exercise for students. Derek Bruff, Director of the Vanderbilt University Center for Teaching, has a nice two-part blog post in which he lays out the logic behind an infographic assignment he gave his statistics students in the spring, the ways in which he prepared his students to look critically at visual presentations of data / information, how he created and refined the grading rubric, what tools his students used, and the terrific infographics they produced (post one and post two).
Without further ado, the infographic tools:
Infogr.am lets you easily create your own infographics. Using their simple interface and templates, you can upload your own data (in Excel or csv format), add video if you'd like, and then share your product on Twitter, Facebook, Pinterest, the web, or grab the embed code provided underneath your finished infographic and put your design anywhere you'd like. If, for example, you'd like to place your infographic in your Pearson LearningStudio course shell, you can do so by pasting the embed code into the HTML view in the visual editor, as our documentation illustrates.
Visual.ly is another infographic generator. Although it may not be as user-friendly as other options, visual.ly is specifically designed to help create comparison-based infographics. You can use their provided templates and then enter a pair of Twitter or Facebook accounts, hashtags, or webpages about which you'd like visual.ly to produce attractive statistics. I think the comparison feature is a nice angle, and certainly a real aid in framing a data-driven visual story.
For a bit of navel-gazing, or perhaps as part of a larger project about society or self, Intel's What About Me? infographic engine offers to create an infographic based on your Twitter, YouTube, or Facebook profiles (or a combination of all three).
If the options above aren't quite meeting your needs, you might take a peek at this list of 20 Web 2.0 Tools for Creating Infographics. If you're still searching - either for theory, examples, data sources, or infographic tools / tutorials - Daily Tekk has a list of 100 Incredible Infographic Tools (these are broken into separate topics, thankfully!)
Last, if you're using infographics in your course or considering doing so, we'd love to hear from you!
 
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