Easel.ly | create and share visual ideas online. By the Numbers: Infographics, cont. Are you growing tired of Infographics yet? We've finished round one of the Infographic Project, with lots of interesting feedback. You'll see student samples throughout this post--the best of the lot; most of them, quite frankly, didn't quite get it, for reasons I'll discuss below. In a nutshell, we deemed the assignment well worth another go, and feel students will do a better job the second time around. The assignment was for students to choose a specific tourist destination such as EuroDisney or Hurghada, Egypt, and show how the site fit into the Butler Model of tourism.
As it turns out, that probably wasn't the best assignment for this type of project, as the research aspect was really difficult. Here's how we rolled out the assignment. Day One: The history teacher introduced the assignment, explained the Butler model and looked at examples of it. Day Two: I introduced the students to infographics using this pathfinder. 1. Working with text (I struggled with this, too). 5 Great Tools for Creating Your Own Educational Infographics. An Infographic Guideline For Making Good Infographics. Infographics for the Art Challenged. I've been interested in infographics for a couple years now. The best ones do a fantastic job organizing complex ideas, sharing information through a mix of visuals and text. In fact they provide a unique opportunity to study (or practice!) The relationship between text and image for conveying ideas. Infographics are an excellent alternative to research papers when teachers want students to practice the skills of research, organiziation and analysis without taking the time to write (or grade!)
A full-blown essay. I've never had students do them, though, because they always required a) artistic ability or b) hard-core Adobe Illustrator skills. No longer. As someone severely art-challenged (as many of my students, who have laughed themselves silly over my stick figures, will tell you), I especially appreciate the opportunity these apps provide for students to think in visual terms. I also think I'll use them to do my annual report. Resources for Infographics as a Creative Assessment - Infographics. A history teacher uses the oil spill for a student design project. Devon ThomasStudents in Diana Laufenberg’s 11th grade history class discuss the infographics they created in a three-week project on environmental disasters. From left to right, the students are Ryan Francis, Luna Frank-Fischer, and Kern Clarke.
To close Infographics Week here on The Learning Network, I invited a classroom teacher (and self-described “fanatic” about the use of infographics in education) to detail a project I first heard her talk about on a National Writing Project-affiliated podcast called “Teachers Teaching Teachers.” Diana Laufenberg has been a public school social studies teacher for the last thirteen years, eight at the middle school level and five in high school.
She currently works at the Science Leadership Academy in Philadelphia, which is a partnership high school between the School District of Philadelphia and The Franklin Institute. So here’s Diana. Learning, Visualized By DIANA LAUFENBERG In the history classroom we are always developing visual literacy. 1. 2. Create Infographics With Piktochart. It seems like every day I find a new infographic on at least one of the blogs that I follow. This is because a good infographic can deliver a lot of information in an easy-to-understand format. If you would like to have your students try their hands at creating infographics, Piktochart is a good tool to use. Piktochart provides seven free infographic templates. Each template can be customized by changing the colors, fonts, icons, and charts on each template.
5 Great Tools for Creating Your Own Educational Infographics. Make Your Own Infographics | Screencast Tutorial. June 29, 2017 The Digital Shift On Libraries and New Media, powered by Library Journal and School Library Journal You are here: Home / K-12 / Make Your Own Infographics | Screencast Tutorial Make Your Own Infographics | Screencast Tutorial By Linda W. Braun on December 9, 2012 From You can create infographics—visual representations of data—from scratch using free web tools. Creating infographics | screencast tutorial from School Library Journal on Vimeo. PrintFriendlyEmailTwitterLinkedInGoogle+FacebookTumblr Filed Under: K-12, Software Tagged With: Easelly, Infogram, infographic, Linda W. About Linda W. Linda W. Comments Lucky Balaraman says: December 24, 2012 at 10:01 pm Hi Linda, A very nice presentation. Search the Shift Recent & Popular Advertisement Job Zone Tag the Shift On Twitter On Facebook About the Shift Top of Page Copyright Media Source Inc. © 2017 AddToAny.
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