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Design in Education

Student Links

7th Grade Colonial Travel
5th Grade Kid Entrepreneurs 
4th Grade American History Infographics
Question It 
Media Savvy
Media Literacy Videos
Money Matters
Free Infographic PowerPoint Template - Modify to use in classroom to make your own infographics
8th Grade American History Infographics

Books, Articles, and News Reports
Digital Nation: Life on the Virtual Frontier - PBS
Getting the Picture: Communicating Data Visually - Anneburg Foundation
How To Make Data Look Sexy - CNN
Illustrating Your Life in Graphs and Charts - NYTimes
Interactive Dynamics for Visual Analysis
Johnson, Paul. Literacy Through the Book Arts. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, 1993.
Making Data Beautiful - The Art of Data Visualization - WSJ
Teaching With Infographics | Social Studies, History, Economics - NYTimes
Too Much Information about 'Information'? - NYTimes
Tufte, Edward R. Envisioning Information. Cheshire, CT: Graphics Press, 1990.
Tufte, Edward R. Visual Explanations: Images and Quantities, Evidence and Narrative. Cheshire, CT: Graphics Press, 1997.
Tufte, Edward R. Beautiful Evidence. Cheshire, CT: Graphics Press LLC, 2006.
Visual Literacy: Infographics as Teaching Tools - BizZine McGraw-Hill
When There's No Such Thing As Too Much Information - NYTimes
The History of 20th Century Information Design 
A Brief History Of Children's Picture Books And The Art Of Visual Storytelling

Visual Thinking
Bad Graphs (Flickr group) 
Knowledge Domain Map
Model of Learning Objectives
Visual Literacy: An E-Learning Tutorial on Visualization
Visual Thinking
VizThink 
VizThinker
W. Bradford Paley
Why "Infographic Thinking" Is The Future, Not A Fad

Visualization Resources
Amazing Data
Balancing the Visual and Verbal Minds 
Brandless Blog
Your Better Life Index
Data.gov 
Data Visualization and Infographics - Smashing Magazine
Dogfoose Infotoons - Michael Kline
Flowing Data 
Teaching with Infographics: Language Arts, Fine Arts, Entertainment - NYTimes
Teaching with Infographics: Social Studies, History, Economics - NYTimes
Teaching with Infographics: Science and Health - NYTimes
30 Free Tools for Data Visualization and Analysis
InfoNewt
Infosthetics: The Beauty of Data Visualization
Inkscape - open source vector graphics editor
Journalism In The Age Of Data
Junk Charts
Organizing Thinking Through Visual Diagrams
Oxford Internet Institute-Visualizing Data
ReadWriteWeb - The Best Tools for Visualization 
Stat Silk - Interactive Maps and Visualizations
Understanding Euler and Venn Diagrams
Visualizing-GE
Visual Complexity
Visual Journalism
Visual Quest Data Visualizations, Charts & Graphs
Visualisation Magazine - Tools / Applications
Visualizing
Visualizing Data
Visual.ly
Occupy Design
Ten Tips for Data Visualization
The Value of Data Visualization
Thinking Visually at UNL
Visual Thinking Tools from Dan Roam 
Visualizing Cultures - from MIT

Tools for Designing in the Classroom
ABCya! Word Clouds For Kids
Doodle.ly 
IconArchive 
Pixir - photo editor
Popplet
Nota
The Noun Project
Dipity - interactive timelines
ImageGenerator
Presentations ETC - Florida Center for Instructional Technology
TouchGraph Navigator
Smore - infographics and flyers
Some Awesome Free Tools for Creating Infographics
Visualize Everything - 32 Free Tools

Logo Creators
CoolText
LogoType Maker
Supalogo

Visual Language
GraphWords
Debategraph-the global debate map
InstaGrok - visual search engine
Mindomo 
Snappy Words
SpicyNodes
They Rule

Graphic Tools
Gliffy 
amCharts
Cacoo 
ChartGo
Kids Zone: Create a Graph - National Center for Education Statistics
Chart Chooser - Juice Analytics
Many Eyes - IBM
Piecolor
Draw Anywhere
Chartle.net
Hohli - Online Charts Builder
Crappy Graphs!
DataAppeal
Diagrammer
Diagrams & Charts
45 Tools To Create Charts, Diagrams, & Flowcharts
iCharts
Knoema
Rich Chart Live
Diagram.ly
Pretty Graph
Lucid Chart
Lovely Charts
Infogr.am
My Galaxies
Slatebox
SmartDraw
StatPlanet 
yEd Graph Editor 

New Media
Twitterize Yourself 
InfographicTemplate

"I Love Charts," from Sid The Science Kid (PBS Kids)


Designing Infographics - Best Practices
Books on Infographics
How To Design Your Own Infographics
InfoGraphic Designs: Overview, Examples and Best Practices
The Anatomy Of An Infographic: 5 Steps To Create A Powerful Visual


Interactive Visualizations