Throughout this Learning Theories course, I used a variety of sites to create infographics about the different learning theories.  I used Canva, Adobe Spark, and Venngage.  I decided to use three different infographic tools because I wanted to explore the possibilities of each site that provided different templates to work with, along with different levels of design knowledge.  Each site that I used was a very beneficial part of my learning process, however there is a clear winner here for me, but it might be different for someone else who does not have as much design experience. I first used Canva, as seen below on the far left. The second tool I used was Adobe Spark, as seen below on the right. The third tool I used was Venngage, as seen below in the middle.  Each of the tools had their own advantages.  All three resources are easy to navigate, have options either create using a premade template or you can start from scratch.  They also provide a variety of options to choose from.  

I would say Canva would be the best for beginners.  It has a plethora of designs to choose from and it is easy to put your own flair on it.  As someone who has used this tool in the past and also has a bit more design experience I felt that I wasn't being challenged enough using Canva. Adobe Spark was the next tool I used, and this was my first time using it.  With over 22,000 templates to choose from, it can be overwhelming.  I would suggest this resource for those with intermediate design skills.  I loved being able to have more autonomy over my work, but also liked that it was still somewhat simple to choose one of the layouts already provided.  The last tool I used was  Venngage.  This was an interesting one, as it had not been recommended through our course.   I like the simple layout and designs and the ability to make the designs your own.  However, I did not realize you needed to pay for the service in order to download the infographic that you made.  This was especially frustrating since I had not seen that anywhere on the site prior to making my infographic, in fact I probably would have gone back to using Spark had I known this.    

I would argue that the learning theories used while creating the infographics below were, constructivism, connectivism, and cognitivism.  Constructivism was mainly used in the sense that one has to be intrinsically motivated in order to relate these resources.  One also needs to have at least a small amount of background knowledge on how to create infographics in order to use any of the tools listed above.  There is also quite a bit of scaffolding within the infographic resources, with the sites providing multiple options to users with all levels of experience.  I believe cognitivism was used throughout this process both socially and in the traditional sense.  One had to keep in mind the cognitive load theory while making informative infographics to ensure that the learner was not overloaded with information.  I think social cognitivism played a role in my personal development of t these materials, since I was able to look up examples of different infographics and bounce ideas off of colleagues.   Finally, the element of connectivism came into play since we were required to post links to our portfolios, which contained these infographics, to gather feedback.  This feedback was very valuable when it came to the editing process, or just to have confirmation that you did well.

Overall, I would recommend using any of these sources.  They provide different options for different levels of designers.  In fact, I did not even realize that constructivism had been used within the sites until writing this reflection.  The course overall encourages you to use these sites, barring one, to create these infographics. This allows students to have some agency over their work, but still be guided at the same time.  This course has been great when it comes to demonstrating the different learning theories covered, and these sites provided have been grate tools to use for the learning theories mentioned above.