Sunday, March 25, 2012

MWS - Infographic project

Infographics are really handful tools in teaching people due to its colorfulness and creative ideas within it, and I use it in a project in grade 9 alongs with other 10th graders. Our teacher shows us how the infographics look like, and how he wants ours to be. The project was given around a month ago before this blog is created. After all those infographics we have watched, we started off with deciding the works for each of our group members are supposed to do. There are four members in the group. Three of them takes the research roles while I take the creating and editing infographic role. Our topic was about Energy, and we got around 21 to 30 days to finish it. We mainly focus on our topic, its history, types of energy, or even energy in the future. Although we didn’t plan well at first, but we are able to produce a work with total of our effort at the end. We take around 3 weeks in researching for information and we seem to be glad about it. Some information are wrong, some are not. While we were working, we had a little quarrel as well but it keep us to be together and understand each other more. After that quarrel, the works seem to be getting fine and the researches are all done. We leave the most important job to one person in our group, creating an infographic but that doesn’t mean we didn’t help her at all. In the end, I help generate the ideas of the infographic and the whole thing was completely cramped up in the last day. My works are research and editing the infographic the night before the due date. It sounds a little funny, but we still doing it 15 minutes before the deadline(but our work is pretty good though)
What we need to create in an infographic. Infographics are the tools created by using software or online programs in order to create simple or creative shapes of arts in order to let the readers easily understand them. They are mainly created by programs and most of them takes a long period of time to create them. It being created by technology nowadays. Eventually, our infographic still has some mistakes in it. If we compare ours to the other, the shapes are not simple enough and the words are still too long. However, it has a timeline which makes it easier to understand it, and the organizations are pretty well-done too.
Infographics are now really popular among the internet world. Some of you might have guessed it already, and because its simpleness and creativity lead them to become this popular. Not only they are easy to understand, but some of them are fun to read as well. I’d recommend you who are reading this to try and create one of them. It’d be nice, and here's my infographic. We use Picktochart to create an infographic, and it'd be great if you use it too. Here's the link
http://piktochart.com/