Want to show off your social media skills? Intel whipped up a nifty tool that I haven’t seen mentioned in many education blogs so I figured it’d be helpful to share. The tool is called What About Me? and it lets you create an infographic based on your social media accounts. http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/what-about-me/what-about-me.html Want to get a beautifully simply visualization of data over time? It’s easy to use Dipity to create certain types of web content in a highly visual format. Consider using Dipity as a tool to map out the history of just about anything by creating multimedia timelines. http://www.dipity.com A great infographic isn’t about information or graphics. A great infographic tells a meaningful story that can be consumed in an instantly digestible seating.
http://socialmediatoday.com/sbohan/558219/what-makes-great-infographic Comic Life makes creating digital comics a snap. Use Comic Life to produce high quality comics for posting on the web, including in a movie or printing out for parents. With a comprehensive set of features, Comic Life gives students numerous ways to explore their creativity - tell a story, even quickly create fun and helpful "how-to" guides..pdf Link:comiclife_manual.pdf Howtoons are cartoons showing kids of all ages "How To" build things. Each illustrated episode is a stand-alone fun adventure accessible to all. Excellent example of how students could use ComicLife to demonstrate their learning! http://www.howtoons.com From MacInstruct: Using ComicLife in the Classroom Examples to share of Infographics
The Noun Project is a seemingly infinite collection of black-and-white symbols put into the public domain. As the founders put it, it is an attempt to organize the world’s visual language into one online database. Edward Boatman, one of the project’s founders, is also its sole gatekeeper. Each symbol on the database was either collected off the Internet or created by designers around the world. Boatman approves every submission to the project and assigns each icon a word — a noun, of course, either an object or a concept. The images are often surprisingly evocative, despite their simplicity, and unlock a potential for wordless communication for anyone with an Internet connection. http://thenounproject.com
http://www.spokaneschools.org/Page/18937 Infographics can be a great way for students to present data to the class on a research project they are doing or an arguments such as books verses ebooks. Infograohics align with many of the Common Core and Essential Standards objectives.Remember the data used for infographics could be data just from your classroom, school or community as long as that is stated.
http://insidetheclassroomoutsidethebox.wordpress.com/2012/08/12/creating-and-using-infographics-in-the-elementary-classroom/ One of the most simple tools, Infogr.am lets you actually import data right into the site and then translate it all into useful visualizations. What could be better than that? I could see this being useful for making large posters showing off attendance, performance on certain metrics, and other classroom-based data streams. http://infogr.am |
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