{"id":1915,"date":"2016-09-08T14:08:22","date_gmt":"2016-09-09T00:08:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogsksbeedu.wpenginepowered.com\/elcordei\/?p=1915"},"modified":"2017-01-03T12:37:18","modified_gmt":"2017-01-03T22:37:18","slug":"infographics-for-teaching-and-learning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.ksbe.edu\/elcordei\/2016\/09\/08\/infographics-for-teaching-and-learning\/","title":{"rendered":"Infographics for Teaching and Learning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>This post includes the resources discussed at the Infographics for Teaching and Learning Workshop.<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: 1px solid #CCC; border-width: 1px; margin-bottom: 5px; max-width: 100%;\" src=\"\/\/www.slideshare.net\/slideshow\/embed_code\/key\/oWQNyEQC51ycij\" width=\"595\" height=\"485\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"> <\/iframe><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-bottom: 5px;\"><strong> <a title=\"Infographics in the Classroom\" href=\"\/\/www.slideshare.net\/ellenc808\/infographics-in-the-classroom-66072475\" target=\"_blank\">Infographics in the Classroom<\/a> <\/strong> from <strong><a href=\"\/\/www.slideshare.net\/ellenc808\" target=\"_blank\">Ellen Cordeiro<\/a><\/strong><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2>Integrating Infographics Blog Posts\u00a0from\u00a0Educators<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/commons.grd.msu.edu\/index.php\/2015\/11\/using-infographics-for-teaching-and-learning\/\">Using Infographics for Teaching and Learning<\/a><br \/>\nSarah Gretter describes the benefits of using infographics and tips for getting started.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.edutopia.org\/blog\/infographics-visual-literacy-written-content-brett-vogelsinger\">Inventing Infographics: Visual Literacy Meets Written Content<\/a><br \/>\nBrett Vogelsinger shares the process he went through to integrate infographics in his class. \u00a0He share ideas he used\u00a0for getting started, a nice template resource, and student samples.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.teachthought.com\/pedagogy\/literacy\/a-primer-on-infographics-in-the-classroom\/\">A Primer On Infographics in The Classroom<\/a><br \/>\nPamela Rossow shares the elements of an infographic and how infographics can be used to promote literacy.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.schrockguide.net\/infographics-as-an-assessment.html\">Infographics as a Creative Assessment<\/a><br \/>\nKathy Schrock share an abundance of Infographic resources. \u00a0A robust rubric can be found here as well as a full recorded presentation on Infographics.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/alicekeeler.com\/2013\/04\/21\/have-students-create-infographics-using-google-draw\/\">Using Google Drawing to Create Infographics<\/a><br \/>\nGoogle Drawing is a great tool to use to create infographics. \u00a0In this post, Alice Keeler explains how.<\/p>\n<h2>Infographic\u00a0Creation Tools<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.easel.ly\/\">easel.ly<br \/>\n<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/support.google.com\/docs\/answer\/179740?co=GENIE.Platform%3DDesktop&amp;hl=en\">Google Drawing<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.easel.ly\/\"><br \/>\n<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.canva.com\/\">Canva<br \/>\n<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/piktochart.com\/\">Piktochart<br \/>\n<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.freepik.com\/\">FreePik<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>I personally like to use Keynote to create infographics. \u00a0Tutorial on how I do it will be coming soon.<\/em><\/p>\n<h2>Image and Icon Resources<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pixabay.com\/\">Pixabay<\/a><br \/>\nPixabay is my favorite free image resource because all the images are in Public Domain.\u00a0When you search, skip the sponsored images and scroll down to the free images.\u00a0Notice you can search by color, size, type, etc. similarly to Google Images.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/images.google.com\/?gws_rd=ssl\">Google Images <\/a><br \/>\nUse the search tools &gt; usage rights &gt; labeled for reuse. \u00a0I also like searching by color and type.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.iconfinder.com\/\">Icon Finder<\/a><br \/>\nThis is a great source for icons. \u00a0The only bummer is the paid ones are really cute so one tends to gravitate to them, but this site has a nice bank of free icons to use.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dafont.com\/\">DaFont.com<\/a><br \/>\nBecause I use Keynote to create graphics, I like to use the icon fonts in dafont.com. \u00a0I keep a key of the fonts in a folder on my desktop to refer to. \u00a0I explain it in <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/JQoY-KTlGg0\">this video<\/a>, but I will create one\u00a0that demonstrates how I use it soon.<\/p>\n<p>What are our favorite resources for creating visuals?<\/p>\n<div id=\"s-share-buttons\" class=\"\"><div class=\"s-single-share\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"fb-share-button\" data-href=\"http:\/\/blogs.ksbe.edu\/elcordei\/2016\/09\/08\/infographics-for-teaching-and-learning\/\" data-type=\"button_count\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"s-single-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\"><\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div><div class=\"s-single-share\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"g-plusone\" data-size=\"medium\"><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div><div class=\"s-single-share\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"mailto:?Subject=Infographics%20for%20Teaching%20and%20Learning&#038;Body=Here%20is%20the%20link%20to%20the%20article:%20http:\/\/blogs.ksbe.edu\/elcordei\/2016\/09\/08\/infographics-for-teaching-and-learning\/\" title=\"Email\" class=\"s3-email\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.ksbe.edu\/elcordei\/wp-content\/plugins\/simple-social-share\/includes\/..\/images\/share-email.png\"><\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post includes the resources discussed at the Infographics for Teaching and Learning Workshop. 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Inventing Infographics: Visual Literacy Meets Written Content Brett Vogelsinger shares &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.ksbe.edu\/elcordei\/2016\/09\/08\/infographics-for-teaching-and-learning\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Infographics for Teaching and Learning<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":455,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Infographics for Teaching and Learning -<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.ksbe.edu\/elcordei\/2016\/09\/08\/infographics-for-teaching-and-learning\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Infographics for Teaching and Learning -\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"This post includes the resources discussed at the Infographics for Teaching and Learning Workshop. 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