Infographics are a visual way to share information. The colorful arrangements grab the readers' attention better than a page full of text. There are several webapps that can help anyone create professional looking, visual projects with little experience.
For this assignment, I experimented with Easel.ly, Piktochart, and Infogr.am. All of them offer upgraded versions, but I only worked with the free version. This was my first attempt at creating an infographic, but I found it to be fairly simple with the tools provided by each site. All three sites offer a variety of pre-made templates to start your project or you can create your infographic from scratch. They also allow you to adjust your colors and fonts and add images, charts, and maps.
Easel.ly
I didn't really get to experiment with Easel.ly too much. The site kept crashing and honestly, it just didn't appeal to me as much as the other two. It didn't seem to have many choices when it came to creating charts
Infogr.am
I really liked Infogr.am. I felt it was the easiest to navigate. It was simple to move my information boxes around, and it had a large variety of text templates. It also had the best variety of tables to choose from, however, I could not figure out how to get the full text to appear in my tables. This frustrated me, so I ended up abandoning my project and switching to Piktochart.
Piktochart
This one was very frustrating to me at first. I gave it a second chance after having trouble with the text on my charts with Infogr.am. I was pleased to discover that Piktochart did not cut off my text, which made my charts easier to read. It doesn't give you much freedom as Infogr.am to change your background and text colors, so you're pretty much stuck with the basic themes.
Overall, I preferred working with Infogr.am. I felt like it had the most options available and was the easiest to navigate. However, if you need to add a lot of text to your charts, Piktochart is a better option.
Link to my infographic created using information from The Pew Research Center:
It’s amazing how professional-looking the infographics created with these online apps are! Thank you for alerting me to the limitations of full text displays on Infogr.am tables.
ReplyDeleteKristen, First, your blog page is beautiful! The information you provided was very informative. I agree with the above comment on the alert on full text limitation.
ReplyDeleteI think it is so funny we all were frustrated with Piktochart! Your Inforgram looks amazing great job!
ReplyDeleteYour infographic is very professional looking!
ReplyDeleteYour Inforgraphic is well presented and has great information for students as well as parents. I loved all the visuals and charts that you added with color.
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I am commenting again because my other comment came out as unknown, so weird. I thinks its funny we both became frustrated with Piktochart. Your infogram looks awesome. Cyberbullying is such a huge issue, glad you chose to focus on it as well.
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Kristen-
ReplyDeleteLOVE your infographic...the movement and the colors are very eye-catching. I'm thinking infographics are the way to get info across to our students! Very engaging! -Teresa :)
Kristen,
ReplyDeleteI also think infographics are amazing. I love that you can create visuals that are engaging and eye catching. I also thought infogr.am was the best tool. I liked that it was easy to use and looks professional.
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ReplyDeleteI really like your infographic. I like the black and gray scale. I think those are powerful colors when talking about cyberbullying. How did you make those graphs? I am jealous of how good they look. I like making infographics, but when creating graphs for this assignment I really struggled using Pitkochart.
ReplyDeleteGreat infographic! I chose to use Piktochart for mine and see now a big difference is the movement in Infogram, which is very engaging. I will definitely be using this in the future.
ReplyDeleteYour critique was very honestly and truly made a picture of what frustrations our teachers and students can have when trying to make an infographic. Easel.ly was, in my opinion, the worst. How can something that is so busy when it comes to the interface look, have almost no options?
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