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I enjoyed this week’s sandbox again. These sandbox assignments are becoming my favorite part of each week.  I love exploring new media tools in the digital world.

I chose to use piktochart this week. I honestly focused mainly on piktochart versus canva when I was deciding which tool to use. After completing my infographic I actually went back and explored easel.ly. Easel.ly was honestly just as user friendly as piktochart and I wish that I would’ve explored this one prior to choosing. The reason that I chose piktochart vs canva was because I knew that I was going to be inserting quite a few charts and I wanted to choose the one that was easiest to set up the charts. Piktochart made it seamless to add in the data and labels.  One thing that I loved about Piktochart once I dove deep into the infographic was all of the graphic icons.  Piktochart had a plethora of choices for basically any idea I typed into the search bar.  Only drawback once I finally downloaded the pdf was that the number of downloads is limited so I was nervous I would need to redownload my infographic and have to pay for the service.

When I was choosing how to design a template I actually chose one that was blue and green. After completing my infographic I went back through my infographic and switched all of the green to orange. I decided to switch these and use complementary colors that was suggested in our chapter 3 text from last week (Reynolds, 2014, p74) . I also used the dark blue and light blue monochromatic theme that was referenced in our text (Reynolds, 2014, p73).  I chose to use white text to make the text pop out from the blue.  If I would have used the normal black text it would not have been legible.  

I could use an infographic for posters on my classroom or library wall. I actually designed one with covid protocols 2 years ago. I didn’t realize that I was creating an infographic more just information for my students. An infographic could also be used in a math classroom as an end of unit project after a test to summarize concepts. An infographic can be used in a library to promote new books. It could be used to sumarrize a book, a character, or several events of a book.

I got my information from Augusta County Public Schools website which is the school division that I currently teach for. In the beginning of the year I looked at these charts weekly. As the school year progressed I barely looked at the chart but knew that it would be a good place to grab some great numbers. My brain is math organized so this was an interest of mine.  

References

ACPS covid-19 dashboard 2021-22. (2022, May 26). Retrieved June 2, 2022, from https://docs.google.com/document/d/1R5Od80sgFEArDxDv6ZiSvmaOWaiytvGEV2v1J9zhAgc/edit

Bond, E. (2022, February 14). Student daily health screenings. Verona; Augusta County Public Schools.

Reynolds, G. (2014).  Presentation zen design.  2d ed.  New Riders/Pearson