Infograhpicing

Hello ICT friends!

Welcome back to my blog! In this post I am going to show youhow to create an infographic to use it later on with your students. To create such material I used Piktochart.

The first thing you have to do to create your infographic is to sign up in this software. As many webpages and softwares if you want the full version you must oay for it, but for the matter that concerns us, I don really believe it is necessary. 

Then, at the dashboard you must click on create new infographic and you will the chance of choosing a templete or starting form scratch. I decide to do the latter since any template fit my purpose.

There are plenty or resources using the free version as images, gifs, shapes, backsgrounds as well as a search bar in which you can look for for resources on the internet to later on embed them into your infographic. Using those resources you have billions of possibilities. 

As I previously known this software it was quite easy to use for my and it did not take much time to create an infographic. I believe this software is useful and it can be applied with children because I have witnessed durin my internship. On the contrary, I must say that at the beggining, you may find lost because Piktochart it is no as intiutive as other softwares I have used before but the results one get from it are worth, it is just a question of getting used to it.

Here you have my infographic about the water cycle:

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

I used a video embed in my infographic. Here you got the link:

The Water Cycle | The Dr. Binocs Show | Learn Videos For Kids

I personally enjoyed this challenge because I like this tool. The thing I like the most was the process of creating the infographic itself. Sometimes doing what we are told to do could be desperating but not this time, while creating the infographic and searching for the appropiate images, fonts on Piktochart I had a great time. I believe this is because of the quality and the queantity of resources one can choose using this platform. As i was doing it, I could not wait for the next step so I could see the variety of items I would have the chance to use. On the other hand I did not like, as I said before, that sometimes while creating the infographic I got stuck a certain points because i was not used to the software I was using, but I guess that happens to almost everybody at the beggining.

Personally speaking I think I have learned to create a good infographic, still there some things that could be improved, but on the whole I believe I would be able to creatte my own materials to be displayed in class or on digital support such as Pinterest or Pearltrees. Now I know what should be included in an infographic: title, body (including visual information), a bit of explanatory text along  the visuals, etc. The question that arises know is: Does every topic fits with an infographic? I do not think so, in my opinion this tool should be used when appropiated not for every topic you may find across the curriculum.

Teacher Peter.