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Infographics

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Engaging

with

Infographics:

Graphs, Charts and Tables Supercharged

 

July 8, 2013

Brooks Crossing LMC

8:30-11:30

Presenters:

Kim Zito: Library Media Specialist; Crossroads North

Amy Gazaleh: Library Media Specialist; SBHS/ Monmouth Junction

 

Help your students read, interpret and create visual representations of information in the form of infographics or pictograms. Engage their minds and their interests while meeting new Common Core Standards. Take charts, graphs and tables to the next level to prepare students for standardized tests, provide an alternate assessment, and to make SMART board lessons come alive. Explore infographic collections and lesson plans for using infographics or pictograms with students, and discover online tools to create your own.

  

Welcome Participants! This page showcases the resources used for today's workshop.

Click here for even more infographics tools and resources.

 

Opening Infographics Examples Slideshow available here

 

Today's Objectives:

  • Define infographics.

  • Identify ways infographics might be used with your students.

  • Locate examples of infographics you can use with your students.

  • Learn about online tools to create infographics

 

Today's Agenda:

 

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Infographic created using easel.ly

All images from http://www.clker.com/

  

 

 

 

What are Infographics?

 

Infographics as a Creative Assessment from Kathy Schrock on Vimeo.
13 Reasons Why Your Brain Craves Infographics

An interactive infographic:

http://neomam.com/interactive/13reasons/

How do you Evaluate an Infographic?

Rubric from Kathy Schrock:

 Schrock_infographic_rubric.pdf

 

Activity #1: Finding Infographics to Use in your Curriculum

 

Browse infographics and

lesson plans to find

one to use in your classes next year.


Infographics Collections:

50 Great Examples of Infographics http://blogof.francescomugnai.com/2009/04/50-great-examples-of-infographics/
USA Today Snapshots http://www.usatoday.com/news/snapshot.htm
Pinterest Infographics Page http://pinterest.com/macmare/infographics/
Daily infographic: http://dailyinfographic.com/
Cool infographics: http://www.coolinfographics.com/
Good infographics http://www.good.is/infographics
Scoop.It: Infographics http://www.scoop.it/t/infographics-and-other-tools-of-news-visualization/

Information is Beautiful: http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/visualizations/
 

Lesson Plans/ Using Infographics with students: Teaching with Infographics:

Places to Start/ NYTimes http://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/08/23/teaching-with-infographics-places-to-start/
Infographics in Education wiki http://infographicsineducation.wikispaces.com/home
Reading Pictographs Lesson: http://studyzone.org/testprep/math4/e/readpicto3l.cfm
Creating Infographics with Students: http://langwitches.org/blog/2011/09/06/creating-infographics-with-students/
Kathy Schrock: Infographics Links https://sites.google.com/a/kathyschrock.net/infographics/links
Edutopia: Infographics Lesson Plan http://www.edutopia.org/groups/personalized-learning/41066
Use the rubric to evaluate the one you've selected. Schrock_infographic_rubric.pdf  

When you've found one, share the link using the Padlet.

Instructions:  Double Click anywhere on the wall.  A box will pop up. Change the name "Anonymous" to your own. Write a comment in the text box. Then paste in the link to the infographic you've found. Click ok.

  

 

 

How to create an infographic:

 

Tools Demonstrated Today:

Create your own Pictogram

  http://gwydir.demon.co.uk/jo/numbers/pictogram/pictogram.htm

Creating Pictograms Using Excel

 http://www.microsoft.com/education/en-us/teachers/how-to/Pages/pictograph.aspx

Online Tool: Piktochart

http://piktochart.com/

Video Tutorial Series

Example made using piktochart: Infographics Sandbox

 

For more tools click here.

 

Activity 2:  Create an infographic!

1.  Choose the data you want to visualize from your own teaching, or select one of the suggestions to the right.

2.  Choose a tool: 

3.  Find images to use

Royalty Free Clip Art Collection

http://www.clker.com/

(We will still cite them!)

4, Use the rubric to evaluate your own work.

Schrock_infographic_rubric.pdf  

5. Consider giving it a Creative Commons License

About Creative Commons: http://creativecommons.org/about

FInd content you can use/remix: http://search.creativecommons.org/

Assign a license to your creation to protect it: http://creativecommons.org/choose/

View our Creations!

https://magic.piktochart.com/output/dee4391d-da8d-40c4-a07a-38227dcfcd39


 https://magic.piktochart.com/output/77aed48c-e655-4ab8-92b0-de2feab25ffe 


https://s3.amazonaws.com/easel.ly/all_easels/163157/Timelineoftheyear/image.jpg


 https://s3.amazonaws.com/easel.ly/all_easels/13030/actividadesdeverano/image.jpg


 https://s3.amazonaws.com/easel.ly/all_easels/163147/walkwaysample/image.jpg


https://s3.amazonaws.com/easel.ly/all_easels/163137/walkway/image.jpg


https://s3.amazonaws.com/easel.ly/all_easels/163147/walkwaysample/image.jpg


 https://s3.amazonaws.com/easel.ly/all_easels/163157/Timelineoftheyear/image.jpg

 

 
 

 

For more image resources click here.

 

As closure:

  • Share how you plan to use Infographics in your teaching next year: 

  • Thank you for your feedback on this session!

 

Standards Addressed by Infographics:

 

Common Core Standards

http://www.corestandards.org/

Sample Elementary Standards:

  • CCSS.ELA-Literacy.SL.K.5 Add drawings or other visual displays to descriptions as desired to provide additional detail.
  •  CCSS.Math.Content.1.MD.C.4 Organize, represent, and interpret data with up to three categories; ask and answer questions about the total number of data points, how many in each category, and how many more or less are in one category than in another.

Middle School:

  • CCSS.ELA-Literacy.SL.6.5 Include multimedia components (e.g., graphics, images, music, sound) and visual displays in presentations to clarify information.
  • CCSS.ELA-Literacy.SL.8.2 Analyze the purpose of information presented in diverse media and formats (e.g., visually, quantitatively, orally) and evaluate the motives (e.g., social, commercial, political) behind its presentation.

High School

  • SL.11-12.2. Integrate multiple sources of information presented in diverse formats and media (e.g., visually, quantitatively, orally) in order to make informed decisions and solve problems, evaluating the credibility and accuracy of each source and noting any discrepancies among the data.
  • SL.11-12.5. Make strategic use of digital media (e.g., textual, graphical, audio, visual, and interactive elements) in presentations to enhance understanding of findings, reasoning, and evidence and to add interest.

ISTE Nets for Students:

http://www.iste.org/standards/nets-for-students.aspx

ACRL DIgital Literacy Standards
http://acrlvislitstandards.wordpress.com/category/vl-definition/

NJ CCCS: 21st Century Life and Careers

http://www.state.nj.us/education/cccs/standards/9/index.html

NJ CCCS: Technology

http://www.state.nj.us/education/cccs/standards/8/index.html

AASL Information Literacy Standards

http://www.ala.org/aasl/guidelinesandstandards/learningstandards/standards

 

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