"Teaching kids to create their own infographics — to break down complex information, then use image, symbol and text to communicate it attractively and effectively... [Infographics] pushes students outside their normal, comfortable “school” reading-and-writing habits, but it gives them practice in the ultimate 21st century skill: telling stories with data.” This quote found in How One Class Learned to Create Their Own Infographics explains the amazing ideology behind infographics.
I realize that the transformation of data into visual representations if done right does help the brain process and understand data better. I think this would be an absolutely useful tool to use in the classroom because many of our students are visual learners. Communicating effectively incorporates words, numbers, and visuals. Data driven or evidence driven data is better told with infographics.
Creating an infographic turned out to be more fun than I thought. I must say that all three websites Infogr.am, Easel.ly, and Piktochart were impressive in their own way. I chose Piktochart because it had appealing templates and it was easy to use. I passed on Infogr.am because I thought Piktochart was perfect for the type of article I chose. Infogr.am seemed more geared toward charts, graphs and less on visual representations which is what I was looking for. Deciding between Easel.ly and Piktochart was the hard part because both had what I was looking for. Easel.ly had many templates to choose from and a great collection of visuals as well, but in the end it came down to ease. For me Piktochart's interface was practical, learning how to navigate through it wasn't time consuming. It just came more natural.
Here is my Infographic. Enjoy!
https://magic.piktochart.com/output/16999683-lssl-5391-science-and-technology-beneficial-forces-in-ameri
Interesting information. You did a great job! I thought Piktochart was a bit overwhelming, but from the blogs I have seen a lot chose it. I need to go back and explore it some more.
ReplyDeleteI like Piktochart the best as well. I've been using it for about a year and I think it offers the best "free stuff".
ReplyDeleteWow! Very nice infographic, well done!! I really enjoyed reading your infographic, this is something I would be drawn to looking at. I also liked how you organized all your information I loved all the details, colors, graphics and even videos you incorporated. Is this the first infographic you create? Looks like you know what you are doing, I still need lots of practice, mine was very simple. Afterlooking around I can see what wonderful things you can create with infographics. Thanks for sharing!
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Yes! Infographics are a great tool for all those visual learners! We have plenty of visual learners. This would be a great and fun way for kids to learn important information.
ReplyDeleteI loved that you included some videos. It made me think about "friends" and all technology and the advances.
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