Infographics & Videos for Research

Here are some info-graphics I came across that may help some of you with your topics for persuasive research!  You can use these as a source if you'd like - just document it!

Link to a great site that has general topics of info-graphics: http://visual.ly/  & http://www.loveinfographics.com/


Addiction (general):
http://mswprograms.com/infographic-how-we-get-addicted/
Addiction (drugs):
http://www.homehealthtesting.com/infographic/teen-drug-use.html

America's Water:
http://www.loveinfographics.com/groundwater-diminishing-from-great-lakes-infographic

Animal Experimentation:
http://www.loveinfographics.com/dissection-infographic
Animal Experimentation (the cost):
http://girliegirlarmy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/2185.taxpayerInfographic4.jpg

Endangered Species in Zoos:
http://www.loveinfographics.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/animal-numbers-in-zoos-infographic.jpg

Genetically Altered Food:
http://visualnews.columnfivemedia.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/Infographic-Real-Food-ecomom.png

Medical Marijuana (use for severely ill patients):
http://hempnews.tv/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/medical-marijuana-infographic1-630x23153.jpg
http://c212747.r47.cf1.rackcdn.com/MedicalMarijuanaSm.jpg

Recycling:
http://www.sunnking.com/blog/recycling-by-the-numbers-infographic/

Smoking:
http://www.healthwatchcenter.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/facts-about-smoking-infographic.png

Vaccines:
http://www.gavialliance.org/uploadedImages/Repository/vaccines_infographic_full_source.jpg

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Media that Matters also has a ton of Science Matter short documentary films that you can use as a source for your research.  Here are some links you can browse:

Aquafinito (America's Water):
http://www.mediathatmattersfest.org/films/aquafinito/

E-waste (toxic effects of electronic waste):
http://www.mediathatmattersfest.org/films/ewaste/

The Next Wave (climate change):
http://www.mediathatmattersfest.org/films/the_next_wave/

The Secret Life of Paper (paper's impact on global warming):
http://www.mediathatmattersfest.org/films/the_secret_life_of_paper/

Young Agrarians (the demise of the farming industry):
http://www.mediathatmattersfest.org/films/young_agrarians/

Neglected Sky (global warming):
http://www.mediathatmattersfest.org/films/neglected_sky/

The Future of Food (genetically engineered food):
http://www.mediathatmattersfest.org/films/the_future_of_food/

Terminator Tomatoes (danger of genetically modified foods):
http://www.mediathatmattersfest.org/films/terminator_tomatoes/


There are many more videos that may fit your topic that I did not find.  If you'd like to look, feel free to browse http://www.mediathatmattersfest.org/

MTM: Your Social Life

Here’s an embedded link to the video clip we viewed and commented on for Media That Matters Friday.  Below the video, I’ve also included a link to the Beyond Media Education and Mikva Challenge websites in case you wanted any further information!  Feel free to comment your thoughts below!

http://www.beyondmedia.org/

http://www.mikvachallenge.org/

MTM: Slip of the Tongue

Here’s the text that accompanies the “Slip of the Tongue” slam poetry Media That Matters clip we watched in class.  I wanted to place this on here in case you wanted an extra look at exactly what the artist was saying during all of those “fast” parts!

Media That Matters

          As a part of joining forces with the ever growing push for more incorporation of nonfiction materials in the language arts classroom, I’ve added writer’s workshop activities to accompany short documentary films (aka “docu-shorts”) to my English curriculum.  Each week, students will sample short films from the Media That Matters film festival website (http://www.mediathatmattersfest.org/), an organization that showcases independent and student filmmakers’s short films on the most important topics of the day.  Local and global, online and in communities around the world, Media That Matters engages audiences and inspires them to take action.  The Google corporation states that “Equality, human rights, and social justice are heavy concepts. Media That Matters corrals short documentary films that touch upon big topics and make you think.”

            Even though documentaries fit wonderfully into the circle of promoting nonfiction literacy, it is also interwoven with biography, history, narrative, and argumentative writing.  Editor Ann Heilman Murphy states that “The use of documentary film in the classroom whether it be an English class, history class or humanities class raises many interesting issues for discussion with students: is documentary film narrative or truth, how does point of view reveal itself in documentaries, what other film techniques are utilized that are similar to narrative film? The use and analysis of documentary film in the classroom encourages information and technology and media literacy.  We must challenge students to analyze critically the texts they view and to integrate visual knowledge with their knowledge of other forms of language.”