creating infographics for more powerful handouts or presentation august2012
DESCRIPTION
Description: According to the Visual Teaching Alliance, "90 percent of information that comes to the brain is visual", so why are many of our handouts and presentations primarily text-based? This introductory course to infographics, short for information graphics, and demonstrate how they can visually, and more easily, represent complex information and make your handouts and presentations more meaningful to your audience.TRANSCRIPT
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Creating Infographics for more Powerful Handouts or
Presentations
Presenter: Diana SilveiraNovare Library Services Source: http://on.mash.to/LOJLMD
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Trends in Dieting
• 4 of 10 people quit diets in 7 weeks
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4 OF 10 PEOPLE WILL
QUIT A DIET IN THE FIRST 7
WEEKS
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Percentage of People on a Diet
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Source: http://www.nexercise.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/new-years-fail.html
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A Picture is Worth A Thousand Words
Picture Source: http://huff.to/LOLTnJ
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- What is an infographics?- Where can you find existing infographics?- How can you create your own infographics?
Agenda
http://bit.ly/w3fTtK
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Why an Infographic?• Capture the current state of affairs• Compare A to B• Demonstrate the evolution of a trend, idea or
industry• Simplify the complex
http://bit.ly/zGxOjn
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Why an Infographic?
Explain Current State
of Affairs
Compare A to B
Evolution of a trend or idea
Simplify the complex
http://bit.ly/yCah7pand http://slidesha.re/xy1vUJ
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Simplify the Complex
http://visual.ly/improve-your-credit
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Benefits of an Infographic
• Easily shareable • Increase your “views” &
“shares”• Easy to understand• Make an impact
Image source: http://bit.ly/LOP3rr
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Visual.ly
http://visual.ly/ and http://bit.ly/zSyhXi
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http://www.coolinfographics.com/http://bit.ly/yG4IL8
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http://www.smallmeans.com/new-york-times-infographics/ andhttp://www.nytimes.com/pages/multimedia/index.html
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http://bit.ly/yStnZ8http://flowingdata.com/category/visualization/Includes tutorials
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http://www.good.is/infographics http://bit.ly/y3qML2
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http://www.visualizing.org/ http://invent.ge/wcV0Yc
A community of creative people making sense of complex issues through data and design
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http://visualoop.tumblr.com/http://infographiclist.com/http://bit.ly/LOSRsN Image source: http://bit.ly/LOSNJn
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http://pinterest.com/search/?q=infographics
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CREATING YOUR OWN
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3 KEYS TO SUCCESS
VISUAL CONTENTKNOWLEDGE
http://bit.ly/xJhAhE
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Tips for Good Infographics
• Keep it simple! • Plan and Sketch Before you start• Show don’t tell• Have a point & make it clear• Decide on a color scheme• Research (Variety of sources)• Cite within infographic• Purpose: Convey meaning behind complex
data• Have a simple call to action• Make it visually appealing• Include your URL http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/awesome-free-tools-infographics/
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PiktoChartFree and Pro versions
Free offers limited design optionshttp://app.piktochart.com/
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• Create interactive maps without Google• 3D maps
• Add symbols, figures, characters
http://kartograph.org/ http://geocommons.com/maps/143445
• Create interactive maps without Google
• Share and embed• Developer API
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• $4.99@month/2.99 for students/ Free Trial Availablehttp://www.wolframalpha.com/pro/
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Strengths:• Upload own data or use existing• Variety of Visualization Options
• Publish Interactive visualizations to your own site
Many Eyes (IBM Research)
http://www-958.ibm.com/software/data/cognos/manyeyes/
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• Quick and Easy• Small Sets of Data
• iPhone App – visualization on the go
Daytum
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Wordle
Wordle.net
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TRULY CREATING YOUR OWN
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Need A Cheat Sheet
http://vector.tutsplus.com/tutorials/designing/how-to-create-outstanding-modern-infographics/http://bit.ly/GPmk4G http://bit.ly/LOP3rr
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Tools to Create - DIY• Carefully select Fonts • Colors – or palettes • Select Visuals• Photos• Creative Commons, Dreamstime for free photos
• Photoedit software• Photoshop, GIMP, etc.• PowerPoint or other Presentation Software
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Choosing Fonts
Your Font Makes a Statement
Or very dramatic
Fun and Light
It can be serious and formal
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Need some graphics/fonts?
Http://openclipart.org http://www.iconarchive.com/http://delicious.com/dee987/fontshttp://medialoot.com/item/vector-infographic-kit/
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Need some data• DataMarket.com• Datacatalogs.org• Numberof.net• Gallup.com• Census.gov
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Benefits of Video Games
Leads to better teamworkFamilies that play video games together have fun together
Improve early literacy skills
Better Hand/Eye Coordination
New High ScoreSources: http://abcn.ws/w9eYkL http://openclipart.org/, http://bit.ly/PzuL5U
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Diana [email protected]
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