Infographics
Diana Laufenberg states, “Infographics work in the
classroom because they grab students and allow an entry point to learning” and “allows
us to focus on the information that’s important” (Schulten, 2010). I thought
about this and realized that even myself as an educator would rather read an
infographic of information rather than an entire article on data. Infographic
are visually appealing while still depicting the important information. Therefore,
letting student create them would be a wonderful learning experience.
Infogram
Pros
o
The layout was easy
to use and provided animation features.
o
The infographic
could be widened if needed.
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There were free templates to use.
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You can embed videos from YouTube
Cons
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Provided Few free images/icons which makes it less visually
appealing.
o
The nice graphics needed a pro account to be used. Pro
account is $19 a month.
Piktochart.com
Pros
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User friendly
o
There were many icons that could be
used.
o
There were some animation features
o
Has an “inspire me feature” that
shows beautiful
creations of other users.
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$39.99 a year for pro account (Which
is about $3 a month)
Cons
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Limited use of templates in free
account.
o
Can be tedious when creating from
scratch.
Easel.ly
Pros
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The layout is
simple
o
$4 a month for a
pro account.
o
offers webinars and tutorials for
designing infographics for the classroom.
Ø Cons
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If topic does not fit into a specific theme, your infographic
will be much more difficult to create
o
Can
be time consuming
Untimely, I chose to use Piktochart. The reason I chose to use Piktochart instead of the
other two platforms was mainly due to being able to navigate the features
easily. I
chose the article from the Pew Research Center’s Internet and Technology titled:
Teens, Social Media & Technology 2018.
Here is the infographic below.
Works Cited
Schulten, K. (2010). Teaching with infographics: A
student project model. The Learning Network. Retrieved from
Anderson, M. & Jiang, Jingjing. (2018). Teens, Social
Media & Technology 2018. Pew Research Center:
Internet, Science & Tech., Retrieved from
Amanda-
ReplyDeleteLove your infographic!! I also liked Piktochart (I really liked their Inspire Me section) but used Easel.ly to make my infographic. I appreciate how you laid out the pros/cons of the three infographic creation websites. -Teresa :)
I like Piktocharts I felt it was easier than the other ones. I had never used infographics, but doing this assignment has taught me different ways to teach material. i am a visual learner and see how the use of infographics would be beneficial for students to internalize the reading material in other ways and create their own ones.
ReplyDelete* Bianey Guillen
I too, liked Piktochart. Easel.ly was not my complete favorite because I felt the other two applications had more options to be creative and can be altered to the students need. Infographics are completely more enjoyable than a full research paper and I think every student would agree. There is something less daunting about getting your information to the point than reading the digression of a paper. Your pros and cons are very clean cut, nice work!
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