Infographics in the Classroom

A promo piece (2:26) for my ISTE11 Presentation "A Picture is Worth 1000 Words: Infographics as a Creative Assessment". Royalty free music from Soundzabound.com entitled "Bobby Sox Hop".

A Periodic Table of Visualization Methods

An animated infographic

TED Talks David McCandless turns complex data sets (like worldwide military spending, media buzz, Facebook status updates) into beautiful, simple diagrams that tease out unseen patterns and connections. Good design, he suggests, is the best way to navigate information glut -- and it may just change the way we see the world.

Over 300 Infographics focusing on education.

Interactive Infographics are online representations of information or data that usually allow the user to “interact” with it and the data that is visualized.  They’re generally created by newspapers for their websites, and often, though not always, are accessible to English Language Learners.   In fact,  they can be an exceptionally accessible way for ELL’s to learn complicated information that might ordinarily not be comprehensible.

_ Books about Infographics Eric K. Meyer Designing Infographics Hayden Books, 1977 Edward R. Tufte The Visual Display of Quantitative Information Graphics Press (2d ed.), 2001 Jenn & Ken Visocky...

This week is Infographics Week on The Learning Network because we know how important it is for students to be able to read and interpret visual representations of information - and because The New York Times consistently creates useful and elegant examples that we think teachers across the curriculum should know about.

Charts, interactive maps and other visualizations that can help students understand key issues and topics in current events and politics, history and economics.

Charts, graphs, interactive maps and other visualizations that can help students understand key issues and topics in health and science.