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What are Infographics?
An infographic is a visual representation of data. They are clever, compelling, timely, and relevant ways to illustrate sets of data.
A recorded webinar on infographics and how to use them in the classroom
Check out this Periodic Table of Visualization Methods (yes...it's an infographic!)
Why are they so popular?
From this marketing infographic (CLICK HERE)
- They are informative! A good infographic should express a topic in a new way, come to a different conclusion, or take a position on an idea. If put together with great research, solid design, and excellent editing, you can create a paradigm shifting experience for the reader.
- They make learning fun ! Consuming information visually can make learning fun. If executed well, the graphic can help with spacial-temporal reasoning. You get maximum proficiency with minimal effort.
- They are universal! You can create an infographic about any topic or for any idea.
Why use them?
- to communicate a message
- to present large amounts of information in a compact and easy to understand way
- to reveal the data discover cause-effect relationships, and identify relationships among data, to make connections
- to monitor changes or discover trends in data
Types of Infographics
- Statistics - A "State Of" for your topic - shows where it stands and how it's affecting the world
- Resource - How-To's, Bulletin Board type guide to a topic
- Comparative - Compares items
- Evolutionary - shows the progress or evolution of your topic
- Informative - Use your infographic to teach or explain a concept
- Persuasive - Create an infographic to sway opinion (be sure to label it as such as normally one tries to avoid bias in an infographic)
- Narrative - Tell a story or describe a process (map out a novel or a science experiment)
- Heirarchy - The Family Tree of your topic (good for character maps, historical figures, showing rank, importance, or connection between items based on data)
More Examples of Infographics (Different from presentation)
Using Infographics in the Classroom
Where to get them
NOTE: Not all of the content of the infographics on these sites is appropriate for school. Be careful where you send your students.
As an Assessment
Infographics as a Creative Assessment from Kathy Schrock on Vimeo.
- Here's actual evaluations of student-made infographics with notes on what's good and what could be done to make them better.
- A Sample Rubric - It's a Word Doc so you can edit it to fit your needs
- Make Your Own Rubrics Online - create, edit, save, download, print your rubrics
Creating Infographics
Where to Get Data
- Google Public Data - Search or upload your own data sets
- Pew Research Center
- Semantifi - A search engine for data sets
- Many Eyes - Data sets and a visualization creator (you can upload your own data too)
- StatPlanet
- Information is Beautiful (swear word on page - but you can get the Google Doc of their data)
- DataMarket – Find and understand data.
- The Data Hub – The easy way to get, use and share data.
- Knoema – Your personal knowledge highway.
- WorldMap – Explore, visualize and publish geographic information.
- Get the Data – Ask and answer data questions.
- Influence Explorer – Provides overviews of political influence data for politicians.
- US Census Bureau – Measures America (people, places, economy).
- datacatalogs.org – A comprehensive list of open data catalogs.
- Freebase – An entity graph of people, places and things from Google.
- World Bank Data – The world at a glance (key development indicators).
- Data360 – Telling compelling and data-driven stories.
- Number Of – You ask, they count.
- Gallup – Public opinion polls.
- EveryBlock – Uncovers info on large cities contained in government databases.
- Daytum – Helps you collect, organize and communicate your everyday data.
- Google Public Data – Filter and animate data sets from around the world.
- Gapminder – Displays time series of development statistics for all countries.
- Munterbund – Graphical visualization of text similarities in essays.
- World Data Atlas - This is a Chrome App that gives data for every country right in your browser.
Cite That Data
- This page has ideas for helping cite data - including using QR Codes
- How to cite Social Media in MLA and APA format
- Using Images from the Web - A terrific infographic about using images and copyright!
- The Ultimate Copyright Infographic
- A Magical Guide to Avoiding Plagiarism - The gang from Hogwarts helps you stay out of citation trouble! (infographic)
Choosing the Right Type Of Infographic
The type of infographic you create should be determined by your purpose and your data! Go back up HERE and look at the different types of infographics!
- Which Infographic is Right For You - scroll down, the accompanying article lists the types and what they include (uses the phrase Number Porn)
Building Your Infographic
THE 5 KEY COMPONENTS TO A GOOD INFOGRAPHIC - quick reminder of what to think about as you plan!
The Tools
- The Noun Project - The BEST Collection of Graphic Icons...Infographic Heaven
- Piktochart - Make infographics (has free account with limited templates)
- Easel.ly - Another online infographic generator - easy to use
- Infogr.am - Another online infographic site
- Venngage - The infographic side of this site is free
- Creately - Good site for diagrams, flow charts, etc.
- iCharts - Create and share charts
- Image Chart by Google - Super easy to make wonderful charts and graphs to include in your infographic!
- Tagxedo - Need a word cloud for your infographic? This one lets you make them in shapes.
- Wordle - Basic word cloud maker for your infographic
- Visual.ly - A great place to find and share your own infographics...this site will auto-create infographics from your social media feeds - good site
- Hohli - built charts, tables, and graphs to use in your infographic
- Betterworldflux.com
- Many Eyes - Data sets and a visualization creator (you can upload your own data too)
- Canva - Super easy with templates! Learn about design in the Design School - and check out their tutorials!
Ideas and Resources for Making Great Infographics
- 10 Tips for Designing Infographics
- The Do-It-Yourself Guide to Infographics - comes from a marketing viewpoint but has solid advice
- The Anatomy of an Infographic: 5 Steps to Create a Powerful Visual
- The Five Keys to a Great Infographic - Created by Linda.com and included as part of an illustrator tutorial - the Acronym is helpful and may help your students! Good to watch!
- Some interesting and unique infographics - GET CREATIVE!
- 19 Warning Signs Your Infographic Stinks
- Color Scheme image to help you choose colors
- Create a Palette lets you create your own or will create a palette from a photo for you!
- Kuhler's Color Wheel
- Color Scheme Designer
- Color Palette FX - Upload a photo - get a color scheme from that photo
- Color Explorer - Another other color palette selector/creator
- Icon Finder - Tons of themed icons you can download and use for free! Get the largest PNG files you can get and resize them to fit your infographic
- Icon Archive - Awesome matched sets of icons for download! Go for the largest size PNG you can get - then resize in your infographic
- DryIcons - be sure you're on the free tab when you start browsing the site
- Iconspedia - more icons - site is a little busy, so be careful as you click around so you don't end up clicking on an ad
- Stock Free Images - lots of high quality stock images - for free
- The Stock Xchange - free images to use with good search (be careful, some inappropriate images here)
- The Morgue Files - great search capability here
Even More Resources
- How to Create Infographics Part 1- An outstanding explanation of what an infographic is and an example of how to create one in Easil.ly (originally created for a college course infographic assignment requirement).
- How to Create Infographics Part 2 - The continuation of the above lesson - this shows how to insert your creation into Word, Prezi, etc.
- How Infographics Accelerate Learning
Articles to get you thinking as a teacher. Don’t miss the infographic about infographics
Beyond Static Images
Video:
Resources:
- How to export PowerPoint slides as JPEG files - Clark Univeristy
- Your kids can make their own videos with Microsoft Windows MovieMaker Live!
- Or they can use the free photo slideshow software - Photostory 3
- Examples - http://pinterest.com/visualoop/infographic-videos/
Interactive Data
- Awesome Interactive Infographics here - Several to see
- The Iliad - An interactive infographic that creates a stream of characters by most mentioned for each book
- Sea Surge - See the effect of rising oceans on population, geography and more
- Water: What is left for drinking? - Scroll through interactive information about water usage
- Mapping the Human Diseasome
- World Fact Book Dashboard
Infographic Yourself!
- Biogrify – Create a fun visual snapshot of your life.
- Vizify TweetSheet – Your Twitter activity as an instant infographic.
- Photo Stats – App for creating iPhone infographics out of your photo data.
- Re.vu – A visual resume tool.
- Vizualize.me – Visualize your resume in one click.
- Kinzaa – Build your infographic resume.
- Visual.ly - A great place to find and share your own infographics...this site will auto-create infographics from your social media feeds - good site
Lesson Plans
- Understanding Infographics - Lesson - Teacher PowerPoint (GREAT Starter Lesson)
- Teaching with Infographics: Social Studies, History, Economics (NY TImes)
- Teaching with Infographics: Language Arts, Fine Arts and Entertainment (NY Times)
- Teaching with Infographics: Science and Health (NY Time)
- An Entire Infographic Project with instructions and rubric, etc.
- Create Vocabulary Infographics! Ideas here.
- Television Lesson - Lesson - Teacher Notes
- Valentine's Lesson - Lesson - Teacher Notes
- World Water Day Lesson - Lesson - Teacher Notes
- Iceland Lesson - Lesson - Teacher Notes
- Flying Across the Globe - Lesson - Teacher Notes
- Population - Lesson - Teacher Notes
- Dreams - Lesson - Teacher Notes
- Infographics: Lesson plans for analyzing and presenting data graphically to tell a story
Templates
The preview of each PPT template may look the same when you view them online, but when you download them and open them in PPT - they are all different.
- 27 Things Template 1
- 27 Things Template 2
- 27 Things Template 3
- 27 Things Template 4
- General Template 1
- General Template 2
- General Template 3
- General Template 4
- General Template 5
- Timeline Template 1
- Timeline Template 2
- Timeline Template 3
- Process Template 1
Google Drive How-To's
Infographic Submission Link
You will create your own 27 Things graphic! Check out these EXAMPLES.
Use this link to submit the infographics you will create in class!