Graphic Info

Description

Groups create infographics (or other publications) online then share with other groups or use in presentations.

Why we like it

Infographics are a great way to visualize content, review content, or create a visual aid for research and presentations. Services like Canva and Prezi have templates for magazines, birthday cards, flyers, posters, logos, and others. Take this activity beyond infographics as desired.

Tech tips

The document design and sharing option you choose will determine the facilitator’s specific instructions to participants.

Canva has free accounts and allows members to create teams. Team members can access and edit the designs. Note: Canva will notify a user when someone else is editing the design and multiple people making changes at the exact same time may cause conflict.

Prezi has a free account that includes Prezi Design, their document creator. The free basic Prezi account allows users to share their document publicly on the web with an option to download and edit. The free account also gives access to Prezi Presentations and Prezi Video resources. Paid accounts (and free trial accounts) allow private saving and sharing.

Sample Prezi Design Infographic: here

Any template, design, or image can be added to collaborative whiteboards on the virtual meeting platform or shared whiteboards such as Miro and Mural. These allow live, simultaneous annotations, so consider using blank templates with free space for images and text.

Process

1. Show participants an example final infographic and set expectations for their collaboration.
2. If needed, give students blank infographic templates to choose from. Or, allow them to create accounts on Canva or Prezi and source templates themselves.
3. Put groups into breakout rooms and allow them to design their infographics together. See the above Tech Tips for creation directly on sites like Canva and Prezi or utilizing a shared whiteboard.
4. Allow groups to present their infographics to the main room or in rotating breakout rooms (see the World Cafe activity for more details).

Daisy chain options

a) Use infographics as visual aids for presentations. Use the same infographics created in this activity or spend time creating new or individual infographics for later projects.
b) Save infographics for later reflection and for keepsakes.
c) Incorporate infographics into longer projects and work done outside of live sessions.
d) Make this project an individual project for individual sharing or posting on a shared resource page.

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