Midwest Educational Technology Conference 2013 Are your data reports just plain text with a table tossed in the middle? Have you seen Infographics and want to design your own? Bring your laptop and school data collection to learn different methods from simple to detailed to create your own Infographics. Do It Yourself Projects will include: 1. Designing and creating an infographic to market your library to administrators and community. 2. Explore ideas for collaborating with teachers using data research in student projects. Can we say "common core"?

1. Linda Dougherty, Teacher Librarian
Northwest R-I School District, Missouri

2. http://bit.ly/YRiuRy

3. Introduction – What is an Infographic?
Design Essentials & Tools
Brain Break!
Lesson A - Creating Infographics with School Data
Play Break!
Lesson B – Creating Infographics with Students

4. Cash, Ivan. Infographic of Infographics. Digital image. Ivan Cash. Public School, 21 Apr. 2011. Web. 11 Feb. 2013.
<http://gotopublicschool.com/design-things/infographic-on-infographics>.

6. History of
Infographics
Florence
Nightingale
1857

9. Power of
Infographics
http://www.ted.com/talks/david_mccandless_the_beauty_of_data_visualization.html

12. Three Parts of Infographic Designs
Story Data
Design

13. #1
#2
#3

14. http://visual.ly/

15. http://www.dipity.com/

16. http://www.easel.ly/

17. http://infogr.am/

18. http://www.tableausoftware.com/public/

19. http://www.gliffy.com/

20. http://piktochart.com/

21. Tutorial Video

22. http://bit.ly/YRiuRy

23. Crowd Source Ideas for School Reports
• Google Presentation format –
• Each table is assigned a slide by
number.
• Group brainstorms ideas for reports
with one reporter at each table.
http://bit.ly/X3XPaB
*Link is on the Presentation Resource page!

24. Group Discussion Data Reports:
• What facts and statistics can be reported in
an infographic format?
• Do you have a purpose for the report?
• Who will be your audience?
• How will you cite your facts? By source or
documentation?

25. Work Time:
Add your data to a school report infographic.
Suggest Piktochart for your first infographic for
data reports.

26. http://create.visual.ly/
Play Time
Select a Story
Connect your Twitter, Facebook, or Linkedin accounts.

27. http://bit.ly/ZBlv70

28. Cox, Tamara. "Eliterate Libraarin." : October 2012. N.p., n.d. Web. 12
Feb. 2013. <http://e-
literatelibrarian.blogspot.com/2012_10_01_archive.html>.

29. http://e-
literatelibrarian.blogspot.com/
2012/10/infographics-
update.html

30. Group Discussion
Student Created Infographics:
Look over student examples on the Pinterest
boards or resources or Google!
• What Subject Areas?
• Grade Levels?
• Common Core Standards? GLE’S? NETS?
• Research using what resources?
• Pinterest Boards http://bit.ly/15NHaho

31. http://pinterest.com/ljdougherty/making-infographics/

32. Infographics
Lesson Plan
Ideas
http://nyti.ms/16tqWva

33. http://bit.ly/16trgdj

34. http://bit.ly/15NIwZu

35. http://bit.ly/WoKzAy

36. http://bit.ly/X8NURo

37. "Student Handout for Steps in Creation." Kathy Schrock's Guide to Everything. N.p., n.d. Web. 10 Feb. 2013.
<http://www.schrockguide.net/infographics-as-an-assessment.html>.

38. http://bit.ly/ZNl6lx

39. http://bit.ly/YqofWZ

40. http://bit.ly/15NJyoC

41. Work Time:
• Select a topic for student created
infographic projects.
• Start a student infographic yourself.
• Explore Making Infographics Pinterest
Board for more lesson plan ideas.
• Follow one of the lesson plans you found
to see if YOU can make the infographic!

44. Works Cited
Lamb, Annette C., and Daniel Callison. Graphic
Inquiry. Santa Barbara, CA: Libraries
Unlimited, 2012. Print.
O'Neal, Chris. Data-driven Decision Making: A
Handbook for School Leaders. Eugene, Or.:
International Society for Technology in
Education, 2012. Print.

45. 12 NOON
ROOM D1
Digital Curation Ninja Skills
TODAY – 2:20 – 3:10
Windsor Room 1 – Embassy Suites Lower
Level