Student Research with

Infographics

Presented by Telly Hall, Carrie Hefner,

and Gena Montgomery

Why Infographics instead of a Paper

Focus on the process of research

Integrate Technology into a research unit

Why Infographics?

To present large amounts of information in a compact and easy to use format.

To reveal data and relationships among data.

To reveal the data, discover cause-effect relations, and identify relationships among data.

Let’s Get Started

Collaboration of reading and writing and technology

Not meant to be contained in one classroom

Reading – teach the research process

Writing – teaching documentation process

Technology - taught Infographics

Reading

Why do we research

Topics

Funnel topic

Formulate Research question

Open ended questions

What do we want to know about our topic

Validity of resources

District Librarian – utilize her

Reading

Total research in the classroom on netbooks

EBSCO

Google Drive

Individual help with finding and understanding resources

Full week of research time

Writing

What can be used as a source?

OWL at Purdue

Son of a Citation /Citation Machine

Put together the Infographics in my room

Structure

Workings of Glogster

Writing

GLOGSTER.COM/EDU

User friendly

Great graphics

Easy to share with each other and teacher

Not protected

Can’t control other users

Can’t control adds and other glogs

Student Samples

Technology

What is an infographic?

Traits of an infographic

Evaluate student-created infographics

Models of Organization

Create Infographics Online

Infographic Apps

DropvisiOS - $1.99

Grafio (Lite)iOS - $11.99 (Free)

Creating Infographics Offline

Photoshop

PowerPoint

Results

Reached the kids that would not have done the paper

Resources

teachinginfographics.wikispaces.com

room233.wikispaces.com/Evaluating+Infographics

Kathy Shrock’s Guide to Everything – Infographics as Assessment

Infographics Kit