EDU221Infographics

==="For all the importance we place on text, it's an indisputable fact that images are processed in the brain faster than words. Hence the rise and rise of the infographic which, at its best, transforms complex information into graphics that are both easy to grasp and visually appealing."=== Creative Bloq Staff media type="custom" key="29000367"

What to Do

 * 1) Do research, "play" with the medium, explore multiple infographic creation tools, create an infographic that has meaning to you, reflect.
 * 2) Create a blog entry titled "Infographics" with a label "Wes Fryer". (Think of this as a supplement/update to his chapter on images.)
 * 3) In that blog entry explain what an infographic is, describe your "playing" and "exploring," and include your infographic (upload the file, give a URL,...).
 * 4) Include a hyperlinked URL to your resources.

Resources

 * The infographic you create just has to have meaning to you. It could be something you want to use in a lesson you're giving out in the field, it could be a birthday card for a friend telling the history of your friendship, it could be a poster for a club that you're in, it could be the story of a favorite Civil War battle, dinosaurs (just for Heidi, fall 2016), the plot of a Shakespeare play, a cookie recipe, a description of this assignment to replace this wiki page (Dr. Theresa would be grateful and would give you credit),...
 * [|"What is an Infographic" by Customer Magnetism Digital and Social Marketing]
 * [|"10 Free Tools for Creating Infographics" from][|Creative Bloq]
 * [|"10 Ways to Use Infographics" by The Next Web]
 * find your own resources (and if you find a good one, please send it to me)