The highest level of Bloom's taxonomy is create. Infographics give students the opportunity to blend visuals, statistics, information, and design to represent and personalized their learning. They are also a great way to teach students to interpret data on charts, graphs, maps or any visual they might encounter on standardized tests. Infographics can also be used for summative assessments, debate, and projects. Infographics help teachers and students present information in an interesting and innovated way in any subject area while gaining experience in technology.
Easel.ly, Piktochart, and Infogram are free tools and offer the ability to put together an infographic fairly easy. Easel.ly has great templates and flexible features. It provides limited themes and images for free, that if used well can still make connections to content material. The con for using Easel.ly is the time the teacher has to spend guiding students to use the tool effectively since it doesn't provide built-in help.
Piktochart provides well design professional looking infographics. Icons and images are design by subject ,making it easy to narrow or broaden a search. Grouping and organizing the information in Piktochart can be somewhat challenging for some students. Detailed video tutorials for each step are available.
Infogram is the easiest to use out of the three tools, is basically just adding information into preexisting templates. Students can focus their time on the content of their infographic rather than learning how to use the tool. Both Infogram and Piktochart allow you to sign in with your Google account, one less password to remember. Infogram provides an "integration" icon that lets the user upload files from their Google Drive account. At my school all teachers and students have a Google account and all projects and assignments are saved in Drive, making Infogram the perfect tool for my classroom.
Below is an infographic I created using Infogram.
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