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Learning Visually
With tools available today, teachers and students can create visuals to help convey information. The article How Visuals Help Us Learn provides information as to how we learn better with visuals in addition to some do's and don'ts when using visuals.  This article refers to another article A Periodic Table to Help You Choose the Best Type of Visualization where A Periodic Table of Visualization allows you to mouse-over each type of visualization to help you find the best kind for the material you are presenting.  Another type of visualization that has become very popular and is an alternate way for students to present what they are learning in you class is infographics.  CoolCatTeacher, Vicki Davis, posted Infographic Tools for Kids.  This offers many great infographic websites as well as comic creators.  The infographic creators highlighted in this article are great for both teachers and students.  Make your teaching more visual with these tools.