Creating an Infographic

Wow! All I can say is that this took me a lot longer to come up with something that satisfied me than I thought it would. I ended up using Canva to create my infographic. Here's the link to it if it's hard to read on the blog: https://www.canva.com/design/DABTPQ62d-k/CI8QG5D9ck08reDnIHgxdA/view?&utm_content=DABTPQ62d-k&utm_campaign=designshare&utm_medium=link&utm_source=sharebutton&cc_from_uid=UABTPdTu-HQ
At first I tried to use a template, but then I got frustrated when I couldn't change things the way I wanted them. Then I tried to design it all myself, but couldn't get everything to tie together the way I wanted. I finally settled on a different template and decided I was going to make it work whether I liked it or not. I had a vision in my head of what I wanted my images to be and I still think that I have too much text and not enough pop, but I was too frustrated to continue to fight it. I also quickly discovered that despite being able to search through a whole lot of images for what I wanted, only a very small portion of them was I able to use for free. Something got messed up with the font in the last paragraph and despite my efforts to fix it, it still doesn't look quite right. I'm sure as I did this more it would get easier and I would be much more comfortable with manipulating the information, but for now this is what I've got.

As I consider the implications of my first experience with creating an infographic, there are definitely some things to remember when trying to do this with students. It was hard to come up with a topic that was meaningful and one I felt I could manipulate. I think a potential way around that would be to incorporate the students' own questions and maybe have them survey other people about favorite books or what they like to do on their free time or something like that. This way they could present the information in a more traditional format as well as come up with an infographic to use. I also think I should definitely be more familiar with the software in order to better help troubleshoot and facilitate the students' infographics. If I want still have to fumble around with it than I won't be as effective in conveying the information to them. I should also be honest with them in how frustrated I was when I created my first infographic and that it's ok for the first attempt to not be perfect.