Tuesday, April 22

Today, we worked on our Infographic project in class. I asked you to find a model infographic and answer the following questions:

1) what is useful to you? (ie. what will you "steal?")

2) what is not useful to you? (ie. what won't you "steal?")

3) how does the model accomodate its content?

Please post your responses--along with your model infographic with citation--on your blog.

We noted that Karin Hueck, one of the designers who created the Infographic for Stanton's TEDTalk "How to Create Story," creates such infographics on a regular basis and, using Google search, were able to find other Infographics she had created. 

We came across "The Price of Your Health," which represented...something in Portuguese...not in the traditional, boring, 2 dimensional charts and graphs, but with multiple vials of blood, filled to different measuring points and positioned at different distances to create a 3 dimensional effect. While we were unable to actually read the words written, we were able to tell, just from looking at the infographic, that was some sort of cost-benefit analysis involving health. This is what we mean by the infograhpic "accomodating" the content: the way it is built/put together leads to a clearer understanding of the subject.

We then worked on our own Infographics and I asked you:

1) to look at the outline you have already done for your TEDtalk (re-post this please)

2) How will your infographic accomodate your content?

3) what will you steal from other infographics?

in addition to this, please create your wiki account (you might find these directions useful

http://femtechnet.newschool.edu/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/Wikipedia-Assign-1.pdf)

Be sure to continue your work in Twitter:

Twitter hashtags

Engage!