{"id":396,"date":"2017-01-31T22:51:48","date_gmt":"2017-01-31T22:51:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/writeprofessionally.org\/info-design-2017\/?p=396"},"modified":"2017-02-16T01:29:04","modified_gmt":"2017-02-16T01:29:04","slug":"summaries-intro-to-infographics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writeprofessionally.org\/info-design-2017\/2017\/01\/31\/summaries-intro-to-infographics\/","title":{"rendered":"Summaries Intro to Infographics"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I always like to have students do different types of summaries of their readings. Often, I have them do visual summaries, which can take many shapes and forms, and in a class on information design, visual summaries seem even more apt.<\/p>\n

On 1-24<\/a>, we read some things that on the surface didn’t completely go together, but with some thinking together, you all realized that the three primary readings did indeed go together. Following are your interpretations of how the Shron, Yau, and Sturken & Cartwright readings intersected.<\/p>\n

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While the Venn diagram may not have been the most appropriate visualization, it did work for this group’s point that the readings did complement one another and that not everyone will like every image.<\/p>\n

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The emphasis on audience in this one always make a tech comm teacher smile. And it also worked at trying to place the information in an hierarchical flow.<\/p>\n

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This was the most literal interpretation of the readings. By that I mean, it took some of the key terms from the readings and tried to map them together. If you follow it through, it does do a good job of highlighting those key terms and how they work together to build arguments.<\/p>\n

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As the most creative of the group, this dimensional box was the most minimalistic, but it also captured the big points the authors were making. Starting broadly at arguments and then entering the box, this student group did visually show how the three readings worked together.<\/p>\n

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I’m a sucker for a process flow chart that requires responses so this visualization had me at the “start here.” What is great about this one is that it walks through the readings big concepts by connecting them to practice!!<\/p>\n

All in all these sorts of visualization exercises always produce good results and surprising results. The differences in approaches is what makes teaching fun, and it’s even funner when the results show the students did understand and were able to talk about the readings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I always like to have students do different types of summaries of their readings. Often, I have them do visual summaries, which can take many shapes and forms, and in a class on information design, visual summaries seem even more apt. On 1-24, we read some things that on the surface didn’t completely go together, … <\/p>\n

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