Expo Team Infographic

Here's my advice on how to create a team infographic:

Find an example of a 'mentor infographic' that the team agrees has the 'look and feel' of the of infographic they want to create, ideally related to their team focus, but not necessarily, it should be one that can be 'chopped' into several parts, for each student to take 'ownership' of, eg:

Now Divide and conquer:

Team members focus on one part of the infographic each, and share specific elements - images, icons, text, story et cetera - via a shared Google Drive folder, to store all the elements that could contribute to the infographic.

Don't Copy, DO Imitate

  • Students use one Pages doc each BUT they use the infographic (example above) to agree a group style first, colour, font, layout, etc

  • As they develop their individual posters they should have a (hard copy?) of their mentor poster to ensure their design will fit stylistically with the others.

  • Then at the end bring the 4 or so separate pages together into one big pages doc, or just print them all out and align pace them all together to form one big infographic.

Icons Everywhere

One thing you will need is loads of icons, one way is to just add the keyword 'icon' to a google image search: I also add file:png, or just the keyword 'png', as those images often have transparent backgrounds.

Flat Icon

The noun project is also a great site for loads of icons.

Online Infographics Tools

Here's a post with guidance on online tools.

These are all great, and allow kids to use their school accounts to log in (all use Google Single Sign On).

  • Canva

  • Piktochart

  • Infogr.am

  • Easl.ly

These tools are all limited (unless you pay), like you have pay to get a high quality version print. So any examples you grab (screenshot, save as PDF) are quite low res, so printing them out huge is likely to end up with a blurry final print... Unless you just leave them on screen?

Last but definitely not least, a Google Drawing is a great way to build an Infographic, think Google Doc, but more graphical, kind of like Pages, but online, so kids can collaborate, comment, work on it anywhere and so on.