It seems that Infographics are sprouting like proverbial fungi around the Internet lately. COMMENTS PLEASE: How have you used, or could you see using, infographics in the classroom?
- The godfather of graphical communications, Edward Tufte, has analyzed some infographics in detail, so if you have time, please check out his analysis: http://www.edwardtufte.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=0002w4&topic_id=1&topic=
- If you would like a quicker survey of some infographics, across a broad range of topics, check out these resources:
- http://www.coolinfographics.com/
- http://www.mint.com/blog/trends/mint-coms-top-25-financial-infographics-of-2010/
- Finally, if you would like to see “Is higher education worth it? as an infographic, check out this one:
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I haven’t made my own, but I have used ones created by PBS and the New York Times. They can be particularly useful for giving a lot of data to students in a way that doesn’t make them feel overwhelmed. As long as the story is interesting, coherent, and not trivial, I like them a lot.
I also found it interesting that the flipped classroom post uses an infographic.
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Stacy, thanks for your comment. I used one on the “new normal” theory of ongoing 2% GDP growth in the U.S. for my fundamentals of business class. As you note, I think this will help them break down the concepts and see some clear visual depictions of what the data mean and what they imply.