Learning Exercise
Analyzing Infographics
This learning activity helps students analyze infographics, and apply their findings to generate their own infographic.
- Material:
- 40 Useful and Creative Infographics
- Date last modified:
- April 12, 2016
- Created by:
- Lesley Farmer
- License:
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In this collection, you’ll find forty beautiful and educational infographics, displaying the uncommon spectacle of "art... see more
Exercise
This website showcases effective infographics.
1. Choose two infographics, and compare them using the following rubric: http://www.schrockguide.net/uploads/3/9/2/2/392267/schrock_infographic_rubric.pdf Explain how you came to conclusions for each criterion. Consider how effective each infographic would be if it used each other's visual approach.
2. Choose a topioc for an infographic, and storyboard it using a digital drawing or infographic tool. State how the analysis informs your content, layout, visualization, and design decisions.
Technical Notes
Internet connectivity, online drawing or infographic tool
Requirements
Written comparison of 2 infographics
Digital storyboard of an original infographic
Topics
Visual literacy
ICT literacy
Type of Task
Learning Objectives
Analyze an infographic; rconceptualize an infographic; apply infographic principles to generate an original infographic using digital tools
Assessment
Written comparison of 2 infographics: thoroughness, evidence of comparison interpretation and application, use of rubric
Digital storyboard of an original infographic: appropriateness quality of visualizationof identified information, rationale of decisions