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What is Easel? Easel is a Web-based application that allows users to create infographics by dragging and dropping icons onto the "canvas", and even jpg files uploaded to the site are treated in this way. Infographics are pictorial representations of ideas represented by their connections to one another, or graphic representations of trends that are not graphs. They are often used by newspapers and other media outlets to summarize information. Since these are often useful and visually appealing, it is important for students to know what infographics are, and how to read and use them.

What are the benefits of Easel? Easel can allow students to clarify their thinking about how concepts relate. Students are also provided formulated infographics, so that when they are making diagrams and flowcharts of concepts, they need not worry about software settings and elaborate controls, as they would for Adobe Illustrator. Since Easel is a Web application, students can store their diagrams, learn from them, and see others' diagrams.

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How can I use Easel in my classroom? - create posters of student work - have students draw diagrams of scientific processes - diagram sentences - diagram ideas - learn about statistics and how media use statistics, whether correctly or incorrectly

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