Tuesday, June 28, 2016

Message Design and Infographics

This blog is about exploring infographics and creating one. An infographic is a graphic representation of information that helps users visualize the “big picture” of an idea that might otherwise be difficult to understand. After looking into several different sites, I decided I liked Piktochart.

Piktochart is a one- stop shop for building, designing and customizing visually attractive infographics. It is an easy app that requires very little effort to produce beautiful, high quality graphics. By using infographics you can create, build an infographic collection, connect infographics with standards and market you school or school library. 

The infographic I decided to do with information by PewResearchCenter is from a survey they conducted March 17-April 12, 2015, and Smartphone data based on Pew Research survey conducted on June 10- July 12, 2015. The information represented is about Technology Device Ownership:2015. It shows that cellphones and computers are the most commonly owned devices.

It also shows the percentages of U.S. adults who own each of the following devices: cellphones, smartphones, desktop/laptop computers, tablet computer, MP3 player, game console, e-book reader, and portable gaming device.

Here is the link to my infographic:


7 comments:

  1. Great post, Buffie! I think it will be so interesting to use infographics with the kids. I love that they will all be unique.

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  2. This is great information Buffie! Infographics are a good way to bring statistics to life in a way that will capture student's attention.

    ~Valerie Daigre

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  3. Well, I have every one of those devices in my house. We don't use them all (gaming systems) but we have them. I wonder why they didn't lump cell phones and smartphones together in the first place since they did first and then noted specifically smart phones later.
    Thanks for sharing piktochart.

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  4. Hi Buffie,

    Yours was a nice explanation of the power and promise of infographics. I was most appreciative of your choice to create color variance to enliven the presentation. Is there any way to tint the text background color? The contrast between the black background and the bright posting muted a few of the softer colors.

    Nice work.

    -Johtell

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  5. Great job on your infographic. I love the color scheme you used and how it made your infographic neat and clean.

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  6. This was a good example of the use of color to help the reader see what goes together and what is different information, starting with the text of your blog! Nice!

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  7. Great information in your infographic! I love the color scheme that you used. It is very inviting and grabs the reader's attention.

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