Infographics CPD Session - November 2017

1. CREATING
INFOGRAPHICS
USING
PIKTOCHART
Alan Parkinson

2. SKITTLES: DATA

3. WHAT IS AN INFOGRAPHIC?

4. Data are plural
Data are numbers
If we attach a
meaning to data
they become
information

5. Elements of an infographic…..

6. USEFUL FOR…
• Case studies
• Exploring issues
• Summarising topics
• Bringing data / charts / graphs / maps
to life
• Telling a story about a place / event /
person
• Visualising a process

7. PURPOSE?
•Stimulate visual and verbal learning
•Communicate clearly and concisely
•Numeracy skills are a big part of new
GCSEs

8. CONSIDERATIONS
• Need EASY creation tools so students
focus on the content not the tool
• Rich in functionality to extend students and
offer a range of options, so that they don’t
exhaust the tool quickly.
• Ability to compile data into visually
interesting charts and graphs – and have
this automated
• Maps (for geographers)
• Easy to print and share (including
embedding in webpages

9. 3 FREE ONLINE OPTIONS (FROM MANY):
1.Piktochart.com
2.Venngage.com
3.Easel.ly

10. • Need to create an account
• Charts and maps can also be easily added to
infographics
• Can be linked to Google spreadsheets and Survey
Monkey accounts to display real-time changes in data
• Can be downloaded into a variety to JPEG, PNG, and PDF
file types and also shared.
• Piktochart also offers educational pricing that allows
increasing the maximum file size for uploaded images,
access to all templates as well as other features not
available in the free version

11. • Need to create an account
• Allows students to apply their style to create
infographics that are unique
• Can share on social media networks, including
Pinterest, Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn
• Can be downloaded as image or pdf files
• Can be embedded into websites
• Educational version allows teachers to create an
account for their class and students. This allows
students to easily share their infographics with their
teachers or their entire class.

12. • Need to create an account
• Thousands of templates offered by Easel.ly!
• Infographics created in Easel.ly can be
download in high or low-resolution JPEG files or
PDFs.
• Easel.ly infographics can also be shared on
websites or with groups created within Easel.ly
• YouTube video on how to create your first
infographic

13. DEAR DATA BOOK
Data can describe
the hidden
patterns in our
lives.
Data can be
gathered from
everybody. We
create data as we
live our lives.
‘Big Data’.

14. GRAPHICS
• Source of simple graphics
• http://www.iconarchive.com/
• https://icons8.com
• https://thenounproject.com/ - thanks to
Richard Allaway for this

15. ELEMENTS OF AN INFOGRAPHIC
• Text
• Images
• Flags
• Maps
• Shapes
• Arrows and emphases

16. PICK A STORY TO TELL
• Create an account
• Sign in
• Start a new infographic
• Add elements

17. ADD AND CREATE
CHARTS
• Use the editor or upload
your own data
• Charts can be network
linked for live updating

18. ADD TEXT
STYLES

19. And a new feature
is MAPS
Some countries
have greater
granularity of
regions. Can
colour code
countries, change
borders etc.

20. EXAMPLE –
BASED ON
MT. AGUNG

21. IDEAS FOR USING
• Students tasked to create an infographic – perhaps
from a source document
• A folder of text, images and icons created and
shared for student use – challenged to create an
infographic using these options (perhaps adding
some ‘red herrings’)
• An infographic ‘created’ with elements, which are
then jumbled up and students sort them out into a
final piece
• Infographic gallery created, and shared using
embedding codes

22. SOME SLIDE CONTENT ADAPTED FROM
• Perse Geography TM presentation by Matthew Fox
(September 2017) – with thanks