Top Tips for Using Infographics to Enhance Learning and Assessment

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This e-newsletter is brought to you by University of Wisconsin-Stout School of Education. If you do not wish to receive future issues, please see instructions to manage preferences at the bottom of this message.  Like us on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/onlineteaching -------------------- In this issue... What’s New - Online Courses Starting in June and July  Top Tips for Using Infographics to Enhance Learning and Assessment Tech Tip: How to Create Infographics with Piktochart  Top Tips for Using Infographics to Enhance Learning and Assessment Explore creative ways to use infographics to expand visual thinking and enhance learning. Discover the best ways to create and assess infographics, and view examples to share with your learners.  A Picture is Worth a 1000 Word Infographics as a Creative Assessment (Video; 2:27) Kathy Schrock’s video provides an excellent overview of the “what”, “why”, and “how” of using infographics.  Infographic Rubric Kathy Schrock’s rubric helps learners to assess their own and peers’ infographics.  How Can Infographics Produce Better E-Learning Classes Tom Kuhlmann describes the five elements of infographic design that parallel best practices in creating effective e-learning: focused information, data visualization, color schemes, bold fonts, and icons/clip art. 7 Things You Should Know about Infographic Creation Tools The Educause staff describes the plusses and the downsides that educators and instructional designers should expect when using infographic tools such as Piktochart, Infogram, and Visual.ly. 10 Fun Tools to Easily Make Your Own Infographics Katie Lepi describes the capabilities of ten tools for creating infographics including: Visual.ly, Easel.ly, Venngage, Infogr.am, and Piktochart. 60 Brilliant Examples of Infographics The Creative Bloq staff provides an excellent variety of the best infographics on the Web, including topics such as: the brain of the beginning blogger, how Google works, and what happens in an Internet minute.  Infographic-a-Day David Warlick provides daily updates and maintains a gallery of the best new infographics. A handy feature is the ability to search the archives by category.  Infographics as an Assessment Kathy Schrock’s amazing collection of links on every aspect of using infographics to support learning.  Tech Tip: How to Create Infographics with Piktochart (Video; 5 minutes) Michelle Shaeffer’s YouTube video provides step-by-step instructions using Piktochart to create a professional-looking infographic. Stay In Touch with UW-Stout Online Professional Development Request a Summer/Fall Catalog http://www.uwstout.edu/soe/profdev/infoform.cfm Visit us on Facebook School of Education Online Professional Development University of Wisconsin - Stout Phone: (715) 232-2253 Archives - back issues in case you missed the most recent newsletter. Register Online!