Teaching with infographics is a
creative way to grab the students’ attention! Infographics provide a visual representation
of the information that the teacher is teaching the students! There are
infographics all around us!
As an English High School Teacher,
I have even seen infographics in the English STAAR Exams. In the English I or
English II STAAR Exams, students are tested on media literacy questions, they
are given an infographic related to the reading selection and must be able to
correlate and answer the designated question correctly.
So for this assignment exploration, I explored
and reviewed the following three sites, EASEL.LY, PIKTOCHART, INFOGR.AM, but in
the end I chose to use a different site to create my infographic. I used
Venngage. https://venngage.com/templates/infographics
EASEL.LY
Easel.ly’s design is
simple and the web page layout is not very conducive for those who are not
technologically savvy. It would be more geared to an intermediate user who is
used to adding media or hyperlinking sites into their design. The text features
are all on the same text bar which can make it a little bit confusing when
editing your infographic. Overall, this is a good site to create more in-depth
infographics for those users who are not beginners.
PIKTOCHART
PIKTOCHART webpage
layout is more advanced, it has scroll down features and a Q&A section for
questions you might have about creating your infographics. This site offers
more customization for the infographics you are trying to create and can
provide you with the high end edge if that is what you are looking for. All in
all, this is a good site for experts or professionals.
INFOGR.AM
INFOGR.AM is an amazing
website to create infographics on because it is already linked up with current
events or articles and it already provides premade examples for you. This site
is for those looking to create infographics, reports, charts, dashboards, maps
and social media visuals. Overall, this is a great site that takes customization
of your data to the next level!
VENNGAGE:
I used this infographics
site because I am familiar with it, and have used it in past assignments. It
provides templates that you can customize and add your information and data
into. This one is the one I found most user-friendly and teacher friendly, that
once you create your infographic it can be immediately published and shared for
free!
Below is the link to my infographic that I created
using information from an article in the Pew Internet Research Project.
Infographic from:
I liked how you used venngage I used piktochart and it gives me a different view of an info graphic.
ReplyDeleteThanks for sharing another app that we can use for infographics. I also used Piktochart,but is nice to know there are others.
ReplyDeleteThanks for sharing another app that we can use for infographics. I also used Piktochart,but is nice to know there are others.
ReplyDelete* Bianey Guillen
After I saw venngage, I decided to look at their site. I can seem the perks of using this site. Getting to see other sites that are available can help. Thank you for sharing!
ReplyDeleteOooh, I like Venngage! Your infographic was very simple and clean. It is great to have another infographic site to add to our collection. I had a hard time decided between the three sites provided, but ultimately chose Piktochart because it had less templates which was less overwhelming for me.
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