Infographics

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As a current middle school ELAR teacher, I'm pretty familiar with using infographics within instruction. Students really enjoy creating them; however, sometimes they struggle with gathering data and finding the most appropriate way to represent it in the infographic (i.e. a pie chart). I am excited to plan many ways I can use infographics whenever I'm finally a library media specialist. I know I can for sure create different ones to hang up regarding books, copyright, other internet ethics, etc. I can also have students create infographics of their own to help show if they understand the different information literacy tasks being taught.

Usually, I use Canva for all my creative designs, including infographics. However, I am pretty familiar with Piktochart as well since most other educators on my campus use it. I honestly thought these two apps/websites were probably the only excellent ones for infographic making, but I was wrong! I've recently checked out Easel.ly and Infogr.am as well. These websites had many tools similar to Piktochart and even had more professional options, which I would like to look into using whenever it comes to creating professional developments for my staff. After playing around on them for some time, I decided to do my LSSL 5391 assignment with Piktocharts still, for I felt I was already very comfortable with this website and really liked it the best personally.

Piktochart is very easy to use! As soon as an account is made, users can choose what type of product they would like to create. Then, they are able to choose a template for this specified product or choose to start from scratch themselves. I went ahead and chose a template for technology since that was going to go with my data I was going to represent in my infographic. From there, the colors and fonts can be changed within the template. For more additions, there is a sidebar available in which the user can choose to add more text boxes, shapes, icons, illustrations, photos, tools (i.e. charts), etc. It was fun to play around with these features and create my infographic to my liking. After I was done, I realized that I would still encourage students to use Piktochart because of how easy everything can be created, even when they are by themselves!

I found an article through Pew Research Center from 2019 regarding mobile technology and broadband at home. The article gave interesting data, which allowed me to transfer it to an infographic. I am looking forward to soon reading a 2020 article regarding this topic so I can look into making another infographic for it!

Try making infographics yourself and let me know what you think! https://piktochart.com

Check out my infographic:

Comments

  1. Tanya's FindingsJuly 6, 2020 at 10:25 AM

    Hello Ione, I also chose Piktochart as well. You made valid points in your blog about Piktochart and I feel that teachers, librarians and students will definitely benefit from this infographic being that it is simple and easy to use. I was shocked at the numbers you stated in your infographic. I knew mobile devices had gone up but I didn't think it went up that much. It is true though, a lot of my parents only source to the internet is through their mobile devices and they didn't have computers at home so getting my students to do their work was very challenging when a lot of the material was not compatible through phones. Great job with your infographic!

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  2. Leslie PerezJuly 15, 2020 at 12:04 PM

    I also chose Piktochart because of how easy and accessible it is! The Piktochart you made is very informative. All the information gathered it set in a very well organized manner. Infographics are a great way to present information! It was an eye opener to know that now days there are using more mobile phones than broadband and computers, which makes a bit of sense since now a days many students now have cell phones.

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  3. Graciela GutierrezJuly 21, 2020 at 11:05 PM

    Your infographic is great, very informative and I liked the color scheme you chose. I also preferred Piktochart, I found it to be easy to use for anyone, professionals and students and it offers great features and tools.

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  4. Christina CrabtreeJuly 29, 2020 at 11:37 AM

    I've heard a lot of great things about Canva, but I have not been brave enough to try it yet. I know a lot of educators that utilize this application regularly, so I will have to check it out. I chose to use Piktochart as well and found it to be user friendly, easy to navigate, and simple enough for me to try for the first time. Your infographic was informative and easy to understand.

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  5. iLove LibrariesJuly 29, 2020 at 11:04 PM

    I used Piktochart as well. After exploring the other webapps, I found Piktochart to be user-friendly and better to use than the other ones. Great infographic here!

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