Posts Tagged ‘infographic’
What if…?
Posted on: April 1, 2013
What if my smartphone is my “paper” and “pen”?
That was my response to this mis-infographic at Edudemic on running effective meetings.
If you think about it, the sort of advice offered by the creator of the graphic is symptomatic of why “new” technology does not seem to work and why “old” technology stays put.
On a related note, new Twitter follower of mine shared a mindmap last week:
How to focus in the age of distraction… http://t.co/thBHDh3shF—
Jason Elsom (@jasonelsom) March 29, 2013
My reaction to the mindmap was: What some call distracting I call enabling, facilitating, or connecting. It is a matter of perspective and practice.
Look at it this way. If you are having trouble driving a car, you might say, “Stupid car!” But observers outside might see what is going on and think to themselves, “Stupid driver!”
Often it helps not to blame the tool but to examine the use of that tool.
Insights on learning analytics
Posted on: September 4, 2012
This is an exception that I am making to a rule. I am responding to an email request to feature an infographic.
I am featuring it partly because the person asked nicely, had credentials, and responded to my queries. I am also including it here because it addresses an emerging but important trend that not many people understand.
Learning analytics is an edtech trend to watch. I highlighted this with the help of the 2011 K-12 Horizon Report to folks from Blackboard when we met at the eLearning Forum Asia 2011 (eLFA).
Based on a tool demonstration they provided some months later, I did not get a sense that Blackboard really understood what learner analytics was. I only saw administrative analytics, not learning or learner analytics.
The infographic below provides a better picture of this [source].
A learning analytics system does not just data mine. It reacts and responds as an intelligent system to every learner. It augments a human instructor by providing more immediate feedback and personalizing learning.
Bottom line: A good learning analytics system is not designed with an administrator or KPIs in mind. It is designed for the learner first and foremost.
Lefties untie
Posted on: May 13, 2012
Actually, lefties unite! Lefties are more likely to be dyslexic, you know.
As a left-handed person, I like factoids like the item below. But while Pleated-jeans.com calls this an infographic, it is not.
[Click image to see larger version at source]
Just because there is information and graphics in the visual does not make this an infographic. Like an untied shoelace, a knot it is not.
There are no citations or sources. The visuals do not help illustrate the quantity or quality of each point. Furthermore, the points within the blue and orange backgrounds have no discernible pattern. They are not a visual alliteration or an arrangement of pros vs cons.
So what makes for a better infographic? This representation by ChaCha.
[Click image to see larger version at source]
LEGO lessons 2
Posted on: April 7, 2012
Gaming is good for you
Posted on: March 31, 2012
This infographic is not really one and some of the examples are anecdotal at best. But it is a drop in the bucket labelled the good of video gaming.
Where do we lie?
Posted on: February 1, 2012
It is interesting to see how often and where Singapore appears on this infographic by Online Schools (click on image for full version).
When I posed the question “Where do we lie?”, I meant two things. Where we are positioned and where the untruths are.
Let us not kid ourselves: Statistics and visuals obscure details and inconvenient truths!
Always connected
Posted on: October 15, 2011
From onlineschools.org comes this visual. More comic than infographic, it illustrates how more “connected” we have become in the modern world.
Click on the main image below to see a larger version.
Created by: Online Schools
Infographics app
Posted on: July 23, 2011
It’s no secret that I love infographics. Good ones bring out the art in science.
Finding them on the Web can be a chore. Getting them delivered to you would be a plus.
Fortunately, there is an app for that and it works on small and large screen iOS devices.
Of Twitter and infographics
Posted on: July 10, 2011
I love this infographic because it condenses the original report into a bite-sized nugget that is easy to understand. Its creator probably had to take some creative and interpretive liberties, but he was entitled to.
And it looks like I fall in the blue 5%. I don’t tweet enough to be in that purple group!
QR QED
Posted on: March 8, 2011
This was an “infographic” that I was thinking of sharing over the weekend. But the DDoS attack on WordPress threw a huge wet blanket on that!
I have used QR codes now in three sets of classes: ICT for preservice teachers, an inservice course on ICT-enabled change and my e-tools course for Masters students.
I have been asked to share what I have done at a conference. I am hesitant to do so not because I don’t want to share. I am just running very low on the bandwidth to do so.
Speaking of bandwidth, the conference is a virtual one in Second Life. But I think that it would be more meaningful to have the participants actually run around with mobile phones with QR code readers.
Decisions, decisions…
