Infographics

 With all the data both teachers and students are faced with on a daily basis infographics make a visually appealing way for the data to be presented. I know for me personally when I am reading an article and data is presented in infographic form I am more likely to read what is being shown. I found the article by K. Schulten to be very eye-opening. Having students create their own infographic ensures that they can read and interpret the data they might see in other learning. I can see applying this in library learning by teaching students to create infographics when teaching research, digital citizenship, banned books, and anything where students need to interpret data. 

I explored 4 infographic template sites that allow you to create your own infographic. The first that I explored was Infogram.com. Infogram has several different kinds of templates for things such as slides, posters, social media posts, and of course infographics. There are multiple templates to use for the different kinds of infographics you might want to create. You are limited to which ones you can use if you have the free membership. You can also create from a totally blank template. Piktochart was the next creative website that features infographics. Just like Infogram, there are other templates that you can build as well as the infographic however there were a lot more templates to choose from. They also have a custom template. Another website I used was Easel.ly. Easel.ly only has templates for infographics. They do have examples that others have created which helps you be able to visualize what your infographic could look like. The final site I explored was Canva. I have used Canva to create lots of different graphics for both school and personal use. I enjoy how easily you can find the kind of template you are looking for. You can customize everything about a template and they have built-in graphics, fonts, and photographs. Canva offers teachers a free account with your school email that gives you access to a wide range of features. Canva is what I choose to create my infographic with because of the templates it offered and the ability to change out the graphs. It had the best tools to represent the information that I found in my article. 

Schulten, K. (2017, September 19). Teaching with infographics | a student project model. The Learning Network. https://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/08/27/teaching-with-infographics-a-student-project-model/