The new Collins English Dictionary is out now – see it brought to life #homeoflivingenglish

I wonder if there is a word for turning a word into an image?  An ambigram is one way of doing that but not quite what I mean…. and then there are the new word clouds that you can make into images in programs like Tagxedo.   And I wonder what the implications are for learning literacy?  Would it be useful to learn some words as image-words? If you think of what the word might be, let me know 🙂 This fabulous video is scribed by Scriberia – their site is great! Continue reading The new Collins English Dictionary is out now – see it brought to life #homeoflivingenglish

“The Age of Visualisation” British Airways article

I thought I’d put a link here to this excellent overview of visualization methods and rationale – partly to not lose track of it and partly to share it. I’ve just been reading through some articles submitted to a journal I am doing some work with as a reviewer, and kept thinking, “Wow, if you’d mapped this article out a little you’d have clearly seen that these two parts over here have nothing to do with the theme and are coming out of left field.”   I’ve been working with a couple of graduate students helping them map out theses … Continue reading “The Age of Visualisation” British Airways article