I spent a fair amount of time this summer exploring the idea of using more infographics, sketches, and mind maps in my classroom. As a part of that on-going investigation I spent some time today watching the following TED Talk given by David McCandless. David McCandless creates infographics for a living. In his TED Talk below he explains what makes infographics powerful data visualization tools. More importantly McCandless explains how he creates infographics that reveal interesting patterns in news and social behaviors.
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Thursday, August 26, 2010
TED Talk - The Beauty of Data Visualization
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Visualisations are a great 'hook' for lessons and lead into really worthwhile discussions of data sources and reliability. I've often featured them at http://sciencevideos.wordpress.com, and they are particularly useful for health, science and ethics topics.
And TED Talks are brilliant too!
Keep up the good work.
Stephen
Thanks for this! I read and promote
T4T in workshops and classes I teach to teachers. Keep up the fantastic work.
Two questions:
1) Do you know of an accessible tutorial on creating infographics?
2) What's the name of the feature/plugin you use to get that footer social media bar?
Best,
Tom
tomliamlynch,
The social toolbar is a free product from Wibiya.com
The NY Times has an entire series about teaching with infographics that will probably interest you. They are advertising a "how-to" post coming later today.
http://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/tag/infographics/
Richard
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