Research and an infographic about research. Infographics are viral. In my own PLN, one of us discovers an infographic relevant to learning or libraries or research and it’s all over the edtech/library world in a matter of minutes. And many of us are now using infographics as a student assessment. But, like political or commercial messages, infographics are carefully-crafted media messages. And they beg careful deconstruction, scrutiny, and analysis. The infographic, Wikipedia: Redefining Research, for instance, appeared on Open-Site recently. It documented the end of Britannica’s long print-based history and Wikipedia’s growing prominence as a reference source. After 244 years, the Encyclopedia Britannica has decided to halt the presses and go out of print. As I looked more carefully at the infographic, as I really read it, I began to see some distorted truths and some opportunities for information literacy explorations. I saw many leaps in logic. Some of the statistics presented: Students use Wikipedia more than libraries.
A Student's Guide to Getting Started with Piktochart. This post is a part of our guide to using infographics in education. For more information, check out the guide here. So here we are. Maybe you’ve been assigned a project where you need to make some kind of visual. Maybe your teacher or professor has asked you to try out Piktochart for making infographics. Maybe you’re looking for a way to impress your classmates with a new tool. Maybe this is just a site that’s not blocked by your school’s firewall. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Either way, prepare your noggins for some knowledge. With Piktochart’s interface, tools, and features, you’ll be a visual storytelling genius in no time.
First things first… You’ll need a Piktochart account. See? The first thing you see when you log into Piktochart is the your dashboard. Pick a template Here are all the templates to help you get started. Try scrolling through the hundreds of templates. Start Designing and Creating Once you’ve decided on a template, click “create” to load it. Insert graphics Visualize your data. How to Make Great Charts for Infographics - Piktochart Infographics.
This is part of the Infographic Design Series and we’re delightfully at the last post of this series. Before getting into the nitty gritty details about charts, here’s a quick recap of what we have covered on infographic design so far. Data is an essential part of infographics, without data, we’ll just have ‘graphics’ and no ‘info’.
The challenge however is to present these facts and numbers which can be rather dry into something that is more aesthetically pleasing – without taking away the quality of data being presented. However, in attempt to make data fit into an infographic, our users are sometimes guilty of ‘over-designing’ making the data presented look cluttered and difficult to understand Don’t fret, we will show you some simple tricks (really!) To make your charts look good while retaining quality. They are really simple design tricks that you can easily learn to spice up your charts, making them turn out to look professionally designed or at least not out of place!
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