Infographics

Project Introduction

This project required the review of 3 different Infographics programs. I chose Easel.ly, Piktochart, and Infogr.am. I created an Infographic with each of these that I will share with you. All 3 programs were great for making infographics. I would recommend any of these for inexperienced users wanting to create stimulating graphics.

Infographic 1
The link to the infographic below is for the infographic that I created with Easel.ly. I found Easel.ly to be very easy to work with. It was easy to adjust

colors and to move things around. I liked being able to use some pictures that were already in the program. This was the easiest program to me to

work with. http://www.easel.ly/create/?id=https://s3.amazonaws.com/easel.ly/all_easels/305717/Howdoessocialmediausageaffectstudents&key=pri#

Infographic 2
The link below is for the infographic that I created using Piktochart. Piktochart was very useful. I liked the backgrounds and choices of colors that it

had available. I also thought that the pictures that it had were pretty good. It was fairly easy to move things around in this program. I felt that the

backgrounds that were available were very professional looking.

Infographic 3
The link below is for the infographic that I created using Infogr.am. This program was fairly simple to use. It was ok for a new user. The backgrounds were plain. However, I thought it was easy to create interesting looking charts with Infogr.am. There were several to choose from and all of them looked professional. This was not my favorite, but it had many positive aspects.

CONCLUSION
After completing the 3 infographics, I found all three of the programs to be useful. They each had different features that made them interesting. I would recommend using any of them. None of them were extremely difficult. However, each seemed to have a few quirks that were aggravating. Some would move lots of text around. Some made it hard to grab the correct item. All in all, my experience with these was fair. What I learned from this experience is that I have a very small amount of patience. I usually learn things easily, and when I don't I get very frustrated. My recommendations to other learners would be to take make sure you have a large amount of time before attempting to make an infographic with any program. I spent many hours on these and still am not satisfied with my results.

About the Author

Mary King is a 9th grade Digital Technology teacher at C.A. Gray Jr. High school in Moultrie, GA. She is passionate about computers and loves sharing new technology with her students. This is her 4th year teaching. She also teaches Marketing at the Technical college level. She has an AA in Sociology from Waycross College, a BBA in Business Management from Valdosta State University, and a MBA in Marketing from Grand Canyon University. She is currently pursuing an EdS in Instructional Technology from the University of West Georgia. In the rare occasion that she has any spare time, she enjoys spending time with her family. She also enjoys spending time with her boyfriend of two years.