Collaborative Hearts And Minds Help Kids Cope
Source: ASIDE 2015 With the increasing questions we received from our sixth graders about the abhorrent news this past week, we realized they needed to do something to make them feel they were sendin…
Creating Logos With Students - Understanding Visual Metaphor And Symbolic Meaning
Source: DesignMantic (click for full-size image ) Logos are short-hand, visual cues that companies use to evoke their brands. Effective logos represent automatic associations between a corporation…
Heart-Shaped Maps - Valentine Primary Sources
Source: Wikipedia - Oronce Fine, 1531 It wasn’t until our students started making heart-shaped worlds as part of a way to promote peace that we wondered if there were any historical references. To…
Design Principles For Students As They Create Visual Projects And Digital Stories
Source: DesignMantic (click for full-size image ) Students are producing more projects than ever before. The proliferation of visual apps and the access to easy tech tools have allowed learners to…
If Parents Can Work From Home, Why Can't Students? A Snow Day Doesn't Have To Be A "No" Day
Source: ASIDE 2015 We have another snow day today. The relentless snow this winter has forced many schools into crisis mode. Teachers are panicking about missed curriculum and make-up days. But with …
SXSWEdu 2015: Education For All - How Far Have We Come?
Source: TES Global An important and undeniable thrust of the 2015 SXSWEdu conference has been the attempt to reconcile the nation's educational inequalities. Marquee panels and sofa conversati…
"What Is Graphicacy?" — An Essential Literacy Explained In An Animated Motion Graphic
What Is Graphicacy? from The ASIDE Blog on Vimeo . We live in a visual world. Smartphones, television, Internet, and social media all push information in real-time, all the time. Visual media bom…
10 Ways To Use The Meerkat Streaming Video App In Education
Source: Meerkat The new Meerkat app has taken the tech world by storm . Especially in the cubicles of Silicon Valley and the newsrooms of political sites, early adopters of Meerkat are tr…
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