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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