Blog and Infographic Project (Activity)

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Increasingly, infographics are being used to summarize information on a topic in a succinct and visually appealing way. For this project, students will work in a group to create their own unique infographic based upon research into Open Source Software. You should not just copy an infographic on your topic that you found online. This is an opportunity to use your creativity to experiment with an increasingly popular format for marketing on the Web.
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Increasingly, infographics are being used to summarize information on a topic in a succinct and visually appealing way. For this project, students will create their own unique infographic based upon research into Open Source Software. You should not just copy an infographic on your topic that you found online. This is an opportunity to use your creativity to experiment with an increasingly popular format for marketing on the Web.
  
 
This blog describes a number of free tools that will help you to create infographics: [[http://www.creativebloq.com/infographic/tools-2131971]]. Several students have found particular success in using PiktoChart.com
 
This blog describes a number of free tools that will help you to create infographics: [[http://www.creativebloq.com/infographic/tools-2131971]]. Several students have found particular success in using PiktoChart.com

Revision as of 19:57, 26 May 2015

Title

Blog and Infographic Project

Overview

In this project, students will learn more about an open source topic, create an inforgraphic based upon their research, and write a blog post reflecting upon what they learned.

Prerequisite Knowledge
  • Students should already know how to post to a blog (see Parts 1 and 2 of Blog_Activity)
  • No programming knowledge is required, making this activity acceptable for CS0 and non-majors courses
Learning Objectives
  • To increase awareness of the impact of Open Source use within society
  • To work with someone at opensource.com to actually publish one or a few of these


Background:

Increasingly, infographics are being used to summarize information on a topic in a succinct and visually appealing way. For this project, students will create their own unique infographic based upon research into Open Source Software. You should not just copy an infographic on your topic that you found online. This is an opportunity to use your creativity to experiment with an increasingly popular format for marketing on the Web.

This blog describes a number of free tools that will help you to create infographics: [[1]]. Several students have found particular success in using PiktoChart.com

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