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Easy way to make infographics for showing your data. Create the infographic and add photos, text, shapes, data and once you save it download your finished product or share it in social media.

You must create an account in order to use their free (but limited) themes.  Create your own infographics 

A free online infographic program which is easy to use to display data.  You can include illustrations, upload excel charts or use the ones provided, download the infographic you create, share and embed the finished product. Easy to use for those not skilled with excel programs with some fun extras.

This reading provides a simple how to for using infographics in the classroom environment as a teaching tool.

Links to sources that allow you to create free infographics.

Links to sites that create charts, graphs, etc.

Interesting article on the use of infographic. The full report from the Pearson and the Babson Survey Research Group offers an interesting perspective on the use of social media in the classroom

Another site to create an infographic.  This one allows you to create charts and add pictures and video 

The pros for including more visual texts and infographics in our teaching 

Free course that walks you through various methods of making inforgraphics for your classroom that can be embedded into a wiiki, blog, webpage, and more.  Also, a multitude of other free 'courses' to learn more technology. 

Infographics (in French) on a variety of current topics.  

 A much easier way to create a web page!  And its free.  templates are available - along with tutorials.  Good-bye Kompozer?

embed-ible resources for all sorts of visual learning.  One could use some of the data visualizations to show the importance of learning a second or third language.

I like how visual the site is. Other than infographics it incorporates videos and other interactives. I even saw Venn Diagrams. It has a lot to offer to use in the classroom for students and outside the classroom with other teachers or administrators.

Enjoy these nice examples to engage the attention of our students while working on the retention. To share with our colleagues

This will come in handing for 615

There is no denying the fact that the type of students we teach today are completely different from last century. Today, we need to look at some of the skills we, as teachers, need to equip ourselves with to better live up to the challenge. Among all the challenges we have in education, we need to catch students' focus and get them engaged in the learning process. Here is a list of some important digital skills that you, as a teacher, need to seriously consider if you want to pave the way for the 21st century teaching.

My favorite one is the use of infographics to visually stimulate students! I am aware of the importance of such a skill and it is the only skill that I haven't tried to acquire yet! I hope that those abe will get me there. Thanks for sharing.