Visual Literacy

Increasingly,statistical data is being presented in creative and attractive infographics.Here is an excellent site that highlights the importance of becoming visually literate in the 21st century.It contains great links to infographics online that you can use in your classroom as well as links to resources to help students learn how to create infographics. Some of the resources mentioned are below.
Places to find beautiful and useful infographics:

Infographic a day for teachers- David Warlick presents useful infographics for teachers.

Information is Beautiful - David McCandless's site
Good Infographics – a collaborative site which focuses on providing good quality web resources – in this case, infographics

As a tool to teach visual and critical literacy:


Check out  the Slideshow on Visual Literacy and Nonlinguistic Representations Part 1.


Student's Using Infographics
 Ten Free Tools To Make Infographics
Glogster example