What in the world is an infographic! I have never heard of this before. Now I am kind of feeling like my grandparents when I would mention the World Wide Web or Internet and they gave me a dumbfounded look!
Infographics – (my definition) a visual tool to present lots of information in an interesting way in the classroom (or even office). Through the video it looks like they are giving examples similar to Thinking Maps, Word Webs, Graphic Organizers. This seems to be a very technological way to get the meaning across through media and art.
Teaching with infographics could offer visual support to those types of learners. It seems to me that the writing process or scientific method could be represented through infographics. Sequencing a story ……. Study guides to break down information need to know for a class or test …… Showing important events in ones life.
How long have these been around? If this is the new thing….I bet we hear more about them!
I couldn't pull up the video on my computer. It said something about navigation to this site is canceled. However, from some samples I saw, it appeared that infographics is something that has been around a long time. Infographic is a fancy name for using pictures to show our data. I'm not sure if I'm on the right track or not since I couldn't pull up the video.
ReplyDeleteI didn't know what an Infographic was either! So don't feel bad! But now that I have browsed through that site - I see that anything that has a visual incorporation is an Infographic.
ReplyDeleteI have never heard of the word before either. I am behind in my work and was reading everyone else's post about it, so hopefully now that I know it has to do with graphics it won't take me long to figure it out.
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