Blog and Infographic Project (Activity)
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| − | * To work with someone at opensource.com to actually publish one or a few of these | + | * ''Optional'' To work with someone at opensource.com to actually publish one or a few of these |
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Revision as of 20:06, 26 May 2015
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Blog and Infographic Project |
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| Overview
In this project, students will learn more about an open source topic, create an infographic based upon their research, and write a blog post reflecting upon what they learned. |
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Learning Objectives
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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
Directions:
Step 1: Select a Topic
Choose from one of the following topics
Step 2: Identify Characteristics of an Effective Infographic
Step 3: Collect Data
Step 4: Create Infographic
Step 5: Blog Post
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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License
