A World of Information
I struggle with the creation of infographics! I find them very useful and I have them placed around the classroom as they are a great way to visualise data. However, if I were to make one I would want it to be: useful, informative and not already available. For my particular subject I am struggling to think of a topic that needs the introduction of a new infographic. Firstly I will look at some of the infographics that I currently use.
The Next Big thing - Clearly this will change every year and this is a dated piece. However, I think it is important to discuss with the pupils & parents what they think the future will hold and to discuss what items have already been created. A discussion I have not yet had, but might be interesting, is why certain devices are created and developed faster than others. Is it purely the ease of their development or is it driven by demand? Is the demand real or is it driven by companies? 
This is more for fun. Looking at the development and changes to computer technology. I really like to use this for first year computer scientists to put the development of computer technology into a historical context. I have created the interactive image below to help pupils and staff to consider some of the tools that they could use within the ISTE Standards. Is this an Infographic? I do not know. It has information within a graphic, however, is that all that is required, or does an infographic take data from a variety of sources to create the end image? I am still unsure. Therefore I will add my “infographic” with the very real know knowledge that it may in fact just be an image with attitude!
nd Societies department use Infographics in this Grade 9 project. Here is a poster that shows some of the Infographics that they created. Bob Sugden and Chris Koch give the pupils a topic that has a lot of information and data attached to it and then the pupils need to distil this into infographics - this is a very hard process for the pupils and I am always impressed with the finished results To be honest the most important thing I have gained from this project is knowledge. For example through one of the links I found this site: https://magazine.good.is/infographics/mapping-job-sprawl-in-america and have shared it with the Economics teachers. I also shared https://www.visual-literacy.org/periodic_table/periodic_table.html with the Individuals and Societies teachers as new methods for data visualisation. I will also be sharing this with the whole school. Finally I found https://www.google.com/trends/ what an amazing tool for collating statics from Google. I have never used it and barely knew about it and when I was originally searching for data for my infographic I was stunned at how much I could find here. I am constantly surprise at what I am missing online - I guess this is why courses like this are great as they make you go and search for more interactive materials.