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10 Types of Infographics: Which Works For You?

10 Types of Infographics: Which Works For You?
Do you have your next big infographic idea but know how to get it on paper? Do you have all the data you need but aren’t sure how to visualize it? Creating a really cool, memorable and–above all–shareable infographic comes down to investing the necessary time and attention in all the steps that lead up to an awesome data visualization. In a previous series of posts, we discussed the steps to creating your own infographic. ChronologicallyAlphabeticallyGeographicallyCategoricallyHierarchically The visual format you choose will depend on how you want to organize your information. 1 Mixed charts Source: MHPM As its name implies, this type of infographic incorporates different chart and graph formats. This mixed bag of charts and graphs is the best option when you have many statistics, facts and figures to communicate to your audience. 2 Informational / List Business 2 Community Another common type of infographic is the list-based or informational visual. 3 Timeline Funders and Founders 4 How-to

Bad Infographics: 11 Mistakes You Never Want to Make In an increasingly visual world, bad infographics have become the bane of the Internet. Just ask users who are bombarded on a daily basis with everything from poorly designed visuals to flat-out inaccurate data visualizations. This pandemic has gotten so bad that up to 95% of infographics from unknown sites have distorted the truth or just plain lied. It’s ruining the Web–so much so that users have gotten better and better at spotting misleading data as soon as they see it. Take a look, for example, at this infographic (click to enlarge). Not so fast. Internet users–like the ones below–have gotten smart to the tricks used by marketers looking for a fast way to get more links. To help you avoid the fate of a badly designed or, worse yet, a misleading data visualization, we’ve compiled a list of some of the most common mistakes made when creating infographics. 1 It just doesn’t add up We’ve all seen these before. 2 Choosing the wrong type of chart 3 Including too much information

Why You Should Be Using Infographics for Your Business (and how to create them) It takes us a lot less time to process them. Text takes more time and effort to understand and absorb than visuals. Studies show that most people only remember 20% of what they read. They also show that our brains process visuals 60,000 times faster than text. Let’s play a quick game. Even for those of you who love to read, the choice above is a no-brainer. Deciphering text feels like work. Being able to visualize data helps us understand it and remember it. 65% of people are visual learners. Infographics help you show rather than tell. They help simplify difficult concepts and transform boring topics into something much more exciting. Unexpected content catches our eye. Studies show that our brain filters out 99% of all sensory information almost immediately. We’re used to reading text.

Over 50 Wonderful Books for Teachers and Educators February 1 , 2016 Reading is key to personal and professional development. It provides us with a window into the outer world and expands our insights and shapes our beliefs. It takes us from a simple state of being informed to a deeper and nuanced state of being illuminated. At a digital era where digital text reigns, it seems like we are doing a great deal of reading and in fact we really are. We are surrounded by all kinds of texts all day along and more than anytime in history we have an unrestricted access to a wide variety of reading materials. A lot of people spend a decent amount of time perusing their Facebook feeds, reading tweets, or going through short 'newsy' blog posts that are tailored specifically to attend to their short attention span. As teachers and educators we need to be critically conscious of how the technology we use in our daily lives influence our literacy practices.

Best Places to Find Free Images & Photos Online The ultimate list of free image sites– but only the best ones. Because ain’t nobody got time to search through a thousand sites. If you are frequently sharing images online it’s essential to have a virtual rolodex of go-to websites where you can quickly and effectively find free images. Not only that— but it’s important that you have websites in which the legal restrictions are clear and concise. Below you will find my go-to list of the best sources for finding free photos for sharing online. I’ve also included some of my favorite paid resources as well just in case. This is part of the Essential Guide to Sharing Images Online series. I update this post regularly with new resources. Free Image Sources The following sites are the best places I’ve found online to get free images. Mopho.to This site is my favorite place to find photos. At only $5/month you get full premium access to the growing library of images and you’re free to use, share, and build upon them. Image restrictions: CC0 Pexels

9 Excellent Under 3 Minutes TED Talks for Teachers February, 2014 We all love TED talks but because of our time constraints it sometimes become hard to afford 20 minutes of your time to sit and watch one and this is where short TED talks like the ones featured below come in handy. This is basically a playlist that the folks in TED have recently compiled featuring some wonderful under 3 minutes talks. I think these could be good thinking prompts and discussion starters to use with your students in class. Enjoy 1- Matt Cutts: Try something new for 30 days 2- Richard St. 3- Terry Moore: How to tie your shoes 4- Rives: A story of mixed emoticons

Evergreen Content: Get More Traffic Without More Writing • dustn.tv Do you have an Evergreen strategy? Here’s why you should have one, and how to start. If you’ve been blogging for six months or six years, you should have an Evergreen Content Strategy. For those of you who might not know what I’m talking about, here’s a brief explanation of what Evergreen content is: An Evergreen post is a blog post in which the content has long-term value that won’t diminish with time. The idea is that the content will retain its value and usefulness for years to come. Let me tell you how powerful this can be by using my own blog as a prime example: 41% of my traffic over the last year came from only 5 blog posts. Just 5 blog posts brought in almost half of my web traffic over the last year.Click To Tweet Taking it a step further and factoring in all of my evergreen posts, they account for around 55% of the total traffic driven to dustn.tv in the last 365 days. I’ve recently updated a few of them so the publish dates have changed, but they were all created in 2014 or before.

Here Is An Excellent Web Tool for Creating Classroom Newspapers February 2, 2016 Printing Press is a great web tool from ReadWriteThink that you can use with students in class to easily create beautiful newspapers, flyers and brochures. The tool is very easy to use and students will definitely love working on it. Printing Press provides multiple pre-made templates to choose from when creating a newspaper. To start using Printing Press, click on ‘get started’ from this page.

To List Or Not To List? 5 Reasons For And Against the List Post During the last several months I’ve been experimenting with what is called the “list post.” For anyone who isn’t a blogger, a list post is one where you use both a number in the title and then you write the post around the ideas offered by that number. The reason I got started was that one of my favorite bloggers is Leo Babauta of Zen Habits. Five reasons in favor of the list post are: 1) A list post offers a focused title. Now, here are five reasons against doing list posts: 1) List post after list post gets annoying. So there you have it. So what do you think? <a href=" Our Poll</a> How to Create Infographics Whether you’re a marketer, entrepreneur, writer or educator, odds are that you’re itching to create some awesome visual content–something that will really impress your audience–but just don’t know where to begin. You’re not alone. Like you, many non-designers nowadays find themselves in the same predicament: full of ideas worth listening to but lacking the know-how to visualize them in a way that will really captivate readers, even in the midst of a crowded web. To help you properly translate your ideas into visuals so that you can extend their reach and lifespan on the web, we’ve created a short tutorial for beginners on how to create a simple infographic with Visme. All you have to do is follow these simple step-by-step instructions, and you’ll be on your way to creating visual messages that will impact your audience more than text-based content alone. 1 Create a project. If you don’t already have a Visme account, create one simply by entering your name, email address and password.

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