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Based on how the brain deciphers complex visual information, designers can understand the scientific basis behind best the practices for infographics. 
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Word Sense is a dictionary, thesaurus, and valuable tool for matching thoughts to words. Explore word meanings and relationships.
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dictionary, thesaurus, visual dictionary
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great ideas on using infographics in language learning classes - useful for all types of classes
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September 8, 2013 12:10 PM
Visuals often provide EFL-ESL learners with more appealing lessons : illustrating them with infographics brings information and gets learners to understand more easily, as well... everyone's eyes are pleased -not only visual learners' :-)
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CAPL service that offers four image-based language learning activities. The Visual Word Trainer is simply a flashcard activity that shows students an image and the word or words that picture represents. The Picture Match Game shows students one word and they have to find the picture to match it. Word Match Game shows students one picture and they have to find the word to match it. The Analyst Game is probably the most challenging of the activities. The Analyst Game shows students a picture and they have to identify where that picture came from.
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series of interactives designed for English Language Learners (and learners of other languages) to gain basic vocabulary knowledge.
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A visual dictionary you can use as a children's dictionary, for learning English or just as a quick reference. The photographic dictionary illustrates thousands of common nouns and simple concepts with beautiful photographs.
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Sqworl makes it easy to organize and share multiple links with just one url. Easy and clean visual bookmarking.
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A fractions tutorial that models fractions with number lines or circles. Fraction games are included.
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"Got Brainy features two sections; Brainy Flix and Brainy Pics. Brainy Pics is comprised of images that demonstrate the meaning of a word. Most of the pictures are submitted by students. Brainy Flix is comprised of short videos that illustrate the meaning of words. Just like with Brainy Pics, most of the videos are submitted by students." description from freetech4teachers
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Humans are naturally visual creatures -- here are 10 great reasons to hop on the information visualisation train. Via Nik Peachey
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I agree Nik, good supporting facts regarding the use of visualization
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August 14, 2013 10:11 AM
Some interesting facts to reinforce arguments for payng more attention to data-visualisation. Will add a link to this from my article on exploiting infographics: http://www.quickshout.blogspot.co.uk/2013/04/exploiting-infographics-for-elt.html 
Tatiana Kuzmina's comment,
August 14, 2013 6:32 PM
very interesting article about info graphics, thank you, Nik.
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The days of posting a flyer around the neighborhood are over. Smore helps you create amazing pages that you'd be proud to share.
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make great flyers and publish
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It is especially crucial to take your students' learning styles into account when you are teaching English language learners. This articles gives a brief description of each style and how you can teach to it.
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The Oolone visual search engine allows you to search the web by viewing the resulting websites as images before visiting them.
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valuable for all students in any class from Beginning Literacy to the Arts, Sciences, and Technology. It contains more than 6,000 images with audio and definitions, in 15 themes ranging from astronomy to sports
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A better way to experience information....Qwiki is somewhere in between a visual search engine and a highly interactive and entertaining Wikipedia. It assembles information on the fly for millions of topics, bringing together images and text in a truly magical way.
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