Blog and Infographic Project (Activity)

Title Blog and Infographic Project
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.
Prerequisite Knowledge You should already know how to post to a blog (see Parts 1 and 2 of Blog_Activity) No programming knowledge is required!
Learning Objectives To increase awareness of the impact of open source use within society Optional 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

Notes to faculty:

• Under the topic description, intentionally keeping this open-ended to encourage students to find interesting research without boxing them in. If the student asks for more direction, please consider in advance how you will answer that question.

Directions:

Step 1: Select a Topic

Choose from one of the following topics

1. Ushahidi ( www.ushahidi.com )
2. OpenMRS ( www.openmrs.org )
3. Sahana ( www.sahanafoundation.org )
4. Humanitarian FOSS Project ( www.hfoss.org )

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