Infographics

The video on infographics from Kathy Schrock was interesting.  It showed various ways that infographics can be used to assess students' understanding.  Instead of having students always write an essay or answer questions, they can use infographics instead to display their level of understanding.  Since I teach Language Arts and Math this year, I will share a few ideas where infographics could be used in those subject areas.  I feel that an infographic on cause and effect would be a good idea.  Students could use various images to display the cause of something and what happened as the effect of it.  They could add text and even virtual effects to the infographic.  An infographic could also be made for inferencing and context clues since those are complex topics for some students.  For Math, I think an infographic on liquid measurement would be very helpful.  Students have an extremely difficult time with cups, liters, etc.  I feel that an infographic would hopefully take that complex idea and help students understand it more effectively.