Using infographics as a tool
What's the deal with infographics? Just a friendly warning, creating infographics can become addicting. If you want to information inviting, fun, and easy to understand, consider using infographics, which is a way of combing visuals with information you want to deliver. You can add graphs, quotes, change and use various background images, and manipulate different fonts and colors to create an infographic to your liking. Additionally, creating them is easy; you have various templates that are ready to used to fit your needs.
Using and creating infographics is very new to me. I had seen various infographics, such as storyboards and inviting charts, posted online or displayed on various walls around my campus, but I always assumed they were bought like that from a company. I never anticipated that they were so easy to create and hadn't thought about creating one for my class, at least not one that looks professional. There are various sites, which have free and subscription uses, that allow you to easily create or manipulate already created templates, such as: easelly (easel.ly/), piktochart (piktochart.com), and infogram (infogram.com), all of which turned out to be fun, yes fun, to manipulate. I made the following infographic, which displays displays various data from an article I found on the PEW Research Center site.
I can see myself using any of the three sites mentioned. They were user friendly. My recommendation would be to try all three sites I listed above. The one that really called to me was infogram. I find of felt confused at first, but realized that it was very easy to manipulate the templates that were ready to try. You can add more information or delete areas that are not needed. You simply click on the what is already there. You are able to change the type of graph, variables, data, and much more with ease. I highly recommend that you take the time to play around with these sites. You will find that you will be eager to look for more ideas and innovative ways to display any information you need.
Infographic on this page is from https://infogram.com/influence-of-social-media-1ho16vody09lx4n
I had similar thoughts about infographics before learning about them this semester. I had no idea there were applications out there that would help create such helpful visual resources. I would from time to time create some visuals for my student using Microsoft Publisher and even PowerPoint but that was time consuming and the result was not always the best. My favorite part of these infographic apps is their ready made templates that made the information being presented more visually appealing. Thanks for sharing your experiences with infographics!
ReplyDeleteI wasn't familiar with aps to help create visuals until my district began using Canva during the shutdown to help us create cute buttons and images for online learning. It's great to realize there's so many easy to use sites that we can use to create great visuals for staff training, lessons, or student products. Thanks for sharing!
ReplyDeleteI really like the opportunity that creating infographics gives students and teachers. I did not know that there were applications for this but I really like all three. Even though a few of them require payment they still allow basic use. Students will love creating these graphics to turn in instead of essays and teachers can load information from lessons to allow students to study. Thank you for sharing!
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