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Tech tools that assist all students to be independent learners & teachers to become better teachers
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Learning with Images: 20+ Tips & Resources : Teacher Reboot Camp

Learning with Images: 20+ Tips & Resources : Teacher Reboot Camp | Eclectic Technology | Scoop.it

This post contains resources to "help learners visualize their learning, lesson ideas, and more!" As well as a the Working with Images SlideShare, there is A Pearl Tree of More Resources (with links to sites with images) as well as Juliana's Bookr, a book  created in Pinpanpum (http://www.pimpampum.net/).

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Plot Diagram - Organization Tool - ReadWriteThink

Plot Diagram - Organization Tool - ReadWriteThink | Eclectic Technology | Scoop.it
The Plot Diagram is an organizational tool focusing on a pyramid or triangular shape, which is used to map the events in a story. This mapping of plot structure allows readers and writers to visualize the key features of stories.
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Creating Infographics with an iPad

Creating Infographics with an iPad | Eclectic Technology | Scoop.it

...Now, however, there is an iPad app that can simply and flexibly create professional-looking infographics of almost any kind.

Visualize is a free (woo-hoo!) app from Reallusion, Inc., that offers a versatile canvas for designing information. Students can choose from a large array of fonts, shapes, call-outs, stickers, post-its, and backgrounds to lay out their graphics.

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Dabbleboard - Online whiteboard for drawing & team collaboration - Interactive whiteboard software

Dabbleboard - Online whiteboard for drawing & team collaboration - Interactive whiteboard software | Eclectic Technology | Scoop.it

Dabbleboard is an online collaboration application that’s centered around the whiteboard. With a new type of drawing interface that's actually easy and fun to use, Dabbleboard gets out of your way and just lets you draw. Finally the whiteboard enters the digital age! Use it to visualize, explore and communicate ideas.

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Gapminder: Unveiling the beauty of statistics for a fact based world view. - Gapminder.org

Gapminder: Unveiling the beauty of statistics for a fact based world view. - Gapminder.org | Eclectic Technology | Scoop.it
Unveiling the beauty of statistics for a fact based world view.
Marcelle Searles's curator insight, August 29, 2013 5:25 PM

Students are loving this, especially those students interested in numbers, but visual learners are also more engaged.

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GraphWords.com - Visualize words!

GraphWords.com - Visualize words! | Eclectic Technology | Scoop.it
Graph Words is a free visualization tool to explore English dictionary and thesaurus, helps you to search the meaning of words and other associated words.
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Silk - a brand new way to create and consume content

Silk - a brand new way to create and consume content | Eclectic Technology | Scoop.it

"Silk is a new way to create and consume content. Structuring and visualizing your content is now as easy as writing it!

Create beautiful, structured pages with powerful and easy-to-use tools.

Relate - Add deeper meaning to your content. Tag and link to spin a web of information.

Envision - Visualize your content in amazing ways. Look at your data from a dozen new angles.

Silk enables users to choose the data they want from the mass of information available, and to view and arrange it in ways that make sense to them." Try Silk today.

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Measuring the U.S. Melting Pot - Interactive Heritage Map - Bloomberg

Measuring the U.S. Melting Pot - Interactive Heritage Map - Bloomberg | Eclectic Technology | Scoop.it
An interactive map of the distribution of national heritages across the U.S. See the most predominant ethnic groups, explore the county by county data for each background or compare two ancestries.
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Slatebox: Visualize Everything

Slatebox: Visualize Everything | Eclectic Technology | Scoop.it

Slatebox: visualize everything....create in real time and share the canvas...embed into your own website...free for individual use...pure HTML 5 + Javascript = Speed...this is simple yet elegant tool to for mind mapping.

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Why Doodling Matters (draft 1) | Flickr - Photo Sharing!

Why Doodling Matters (draft 1) | Flickr - Photo Sharing! | Eclectic Technology | Scoop.it

As Temple Grandin says, "the world needs all kinds of minds." and some of those minds "think in pictures". Doodling is a form of external thought that allows you to visualize the connections you are making while thinking. Scroll down to see Draft 2.

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WordSift - Visualize Text

WordSift - Visualize Text | Eclectic Technology | Scoop.it

WordSift helps anyone easily sift through texts -- just cut and paste any text and you can engage in a verbal quick-capture…quickly identify important words … mark and sort different lists of words important to educators…visualization of word thesaurus…Google® searches of images and videos. Click on any word in the Tag Cloud, the program displays instances of sentences in which that word is used in the text.

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