Other
Dade Schools: John Ferguson: Informational Text Features
A table explaining different text features including graphics, visuals, and sections found in text.
Other
Pankpages
Site contains free downloadable graphics such as buttons and backgrounds, as well as tutorials which focus on Photoshop.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Skillful Slideshows
During this technology-based lesson, students learn how to create slideshow presentations that are creative and inviting to the audience. They use fonts, graphics, effects, etc, to capture audience attention.
Edutopia
Edutopia: Common Core in Action: 10 Visual Literacy Strategies
Explicitly teach a collection of competencies that will help students think through, think about, and think with pictures.
University of California
University of California: Geometry in Action
This page collects various areas in which ideas from discrete and computational geometry (meaning mainly low-dimensional Euclidean geometry) meet some real-world applications.
Wikimedia
Wikipedia: Pict
Encyclopedia entry that defines a PICT graphic file and explains how and why it was created. Links to related information are available as well.
Other
Ron Reason: Design With Reason
This site from Ron Reason is a very good site devoted to newspaper designs and articles pertaining to them. Offers tips on designs and interesting articles with photos.
NASA
Nasa: Beginner's Guide to Aerodynamics
This site from NASA uses a colorful graphic to illustrate why objects reach terminal velocity. Provides equation for the terminal velocity of an object. Graphic is accompanied by a simple explanation.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Converting Between Odds and Probability: Lesson 4
This lesson demonstrates how to convert between odds and probability. It is 4 of 5 in the series titled "Converting Between Odds and Probability."
Other
Nielsen Norman Group: Guidelines for Multimedia on the Web
Guidelines on how to design presentations for web media. This is an old article and some of the information is outdated, but much is still relevant. SL.9-10.5 Audio Visuals, RI.11-12.7 Eval Different Media/format....
Other
Michael Bein's Home Plate: Graphical History of Baseball
This site presents a graphical review of the history of baseball including batting, pitching, and fielding statistics.
Other
Free Web Graphics
A page full of free animation, clip art, backgrounds, and other graphics to be used on web pages. Simply download an image to use.
Curated OER
Traditional Crafts of Japan
Explore Japanese crafts like weaving, dyeing, pottery, porcelain and others by region of Japan or craft type. Each craft has extensive information and beautiful graphics. Bilingual English / Japanese (Japanese version has more content).