I love browsing through infographics. Everything from pets per capita to early literacy rates.
Source: https://www.petfoodindustry.com/articles/5845-infographic-most-of-world-owns-pets-dogs-are-tops
Source: https://www.governorsfoundation.org/about/early-literacy
Three webapps you can use to create infographics are easel.ly, Piktochart, and Infogram.
https://www.easel.ly
http://piktochart.com/
http://infogr.am
easel.ly is free and easy to use. You can choose templates that are visually appealing and alter them
using intuitive tools. There are graphics that you can swap out and you can create something from
scratch if you don’t like the available templates. Of course, more options are available if you upgrade
but I was able to do everything I wanted to do with the free version.
Piktochart seemed less user friendly to me. I think that it has a larger learning curve. There were tons of templates to choose from and the format reminded me a bit of Pinterest. Once you select a template, there are tools on the left that allow you to change elements of the template. It is click and go. Again, easy to use but not my cup of tea.
Infogram was what I went with to create my own infographic. I like that you can click on an element in the template and change the data to reflect your data. For example, one of the templates includes a world map. You can edit the data to show your data on a world map. You can pull data from your
google account into the infographic. What I didn’t like is that you have to upgrade to download your
infographic.
I tried my hand at creating an infographic using data from Pew Research Center.
https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2018/10/25/6-facts-about-english-language-learners-in-u-s-public-schools/
The way the graphs and data pop up on the infographics from Infogram as you scroll down is very smooth. I'm jealous and wish I went with Infogram now, but I liked all the images and icons that Piktochart offered. Infographics are great for conveying little known information. For example, I had no idea that Arabic was the second most spoken ELL language in 16 states. Very professional looking infogrpahic.
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