I had to share this wonderful idea from Sarah Mulhern Gross’s recent Infotopia post: Beyond the Book: Infographics of Students’ Reading History! Sarah, a high school English teacher, was excited about sharing her lesson with the school library community. Sarah describes herself as a book evangelist. She shared her interest in having students think about some of the books that have affected […]
Posters tell stories economically. And there is no longer a need to share them with thumbtacks. I fell in love with Smore last spring (see Postering with new tools). We now use it to promote library activities, to create marketing campaigns for sports and club events. Our students return to it often as a visual […]
We just completed the second go-round of our global infographics project. It’s an opportunity for students to visually represent their research in a way that makes an impact on an audience. It’s a way for them to practice media literacy, data crunching and communication skills. And, combined with their oral presentations, it’s a way for […]
I thought I’d share a couple of cool tools I’ve been playing with to make posters for student projects and to promote library services and events. Currently in private beta, Smore may be the easiest way ever to create and share a quick online poster or flyer. Here’s the poster I just pulled together to […]
Just a brief post to share this poster I discovered on Tanner Christensen’s Creative Something blog. (Lot’s more to explore there.) Tanner explains: Nine simple rules that help propel creatives (that means you) to success. Whether you’re an artist, a writer, a craftsperson, an entrepreneur, a student or a teacher, or anyone in-between: these rules […]
Don’t you just love it when we build on each others’ good work? Here’s what happened. Jennifer LaGarde, aka Library Girl, inspired by the work of Carl Harvey, created her Are You Ready? poster/infographic. Around the same time, a number of us discovered and were playing around with Thinglink. (I think I first discovered it […]
My practicum student Jenni Stern and I have been playing with ideas for promoting new and traditional skills we think are important. And we’ve been inspired by my good friend Gwyneth Jones’ Comic Life At-A-Glance tutorial posters. Says Jenni: Gwyneth’s posters guide students and teachers to work creatively. Her design is contemporary and eye catching, in […]
Nora and I were thinking of a way to highlight young adult authors (and a way to use our beautiful purple book cart). Our student readers kept asking for the same favorite names over and over again and we wanted to introduce them to a few new authors. (John Green simply cannot write as fast […]
My colleague, Kevin, just stopped in with a cool poster project for his German class. He asked me for advice in embedding Glogster.edu widgets onto his class wiki. I started to explain that he needed to tell the students to select other in the embed options, when he shared with me that he noticed a […]
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