Digging Deeper
Infographics - Professional Development Day - 9/26/14 - East High School
Throughout the Years -
Throughout the Years -
Infographics are clearly having a cultural moment. They have become pervasive in newspapers, magazines, blog posts, and viral tweets; they appear on televisionand in advertising, in political campaigns and at art openings. As a Google search term, “infographic” has increased nearly twenty-fold in the last five years. Yet infographics have been popular, in one form or another, for centuries. The source of their power isn’t computers or the Internet, but the brain’s natural visual intelligence.
Social Media - Impact - Increased accessability - to create, to share and to view.
Telling Stories in New Ways -
Making Your Own
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It’s hard not to notice the explosion in the use of infographics on the web today. However, the infographic is a concept that is far from new - think back to your elementary school textbooks, where pictures told the story of an abstract concept. The infographic is the solution to a basic problem: how can we make complex and mundane topics easy to understand for a broader audiences?* Types of Infographics - Graphics & Text
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Hand-drawn -
Design -
Information is Beautiful - David McCandless |
Bibliography
*Cook, G. (2013, October 17). Why Abraham Lincoln Loved Infographics - The New Yorker. Retrieved September 23, 2014, from http://www.newyorker.com/tech/elements/why-abraham-lincoln-loved-infographics
*Schultan, S. (2010, September 10). A Map Of American Slavery. Retrieved from http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2010/12/10/opinion/20101210_Disunion_SlaveryMap.html
http://mappingthenation.com/index.php/viewer/index/4/1
*Zomick, B. (n.d.). How it's Made: Create Your Own Infographic - SkilledUp.com. Retrieved September 23, 2014, from http://www.skilledup.com/learn/graphic-design/create-your-own-infographic-mike-wirth/Moline, S. (2012). I see what you mean: Visual literacy K-8 (2nd ed.). Portland, Me.: Stenhouse.
If people had wheels and could fly, how would you differentiate them from airplanes? - Ted Talk -
What if? Munroe, R. (2014). What if?: Serious scientific answers to absurd hypothetical questions. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing.
*Cook, G. (2013, October 17). Why Abraham Lincoln Loved Infographics - The New Yorker. Retrieved September 23, 2014, from http://www.newyorker.com/tech/elements/why-abraham-lincoln-loved-infographics
*Schultan, S. (2010, September 10). A Map Of American Slavery. Retrieved from http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2010/12/10/opinion/20101210_Disunion_SlaveryMap.html
http://mappingthenation.com/index.php/viewer/index/4/1
*Zomick, B. (n.d.). How it's Made: Create Your Own Infographic - SkilledUp.com. Retrieved September 23, 2014, from http://www.skilledup.com/learn/graphic-design/create-your-own-infographic-mike-wirth/Moline, S. (2012). I see what you mean: Visual literacy K-8 (2nd ed.). Portland, Me.: Stenhouse.
If people had wheels and could fly, how would you differentiate them from airplanes? - Ted Talk -
What if? Munroe, R. (2014). What if?: Serious scientific answers to absurd hypothetical questions. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing.