Did anyone else find that big pie chart infographic of social media tools in Kathy Schrock's presentation (at about the 13 minute mark) intimidating? Holy cow.
I loved Schrock's idea about having students take a how to essay and make it into an infographic. I'm playing with the idea of having the info graphic be the pre-write portion (that would give students lots of time to think about their topic) and the post write summary/presentation (this is a great way to get them to distill the key points into a summary.)
My biggest concern with creating infographics of my own to use is that they seem to take a lot of time. I think at first I will use my time wisely by creating infographics that won't need updating each year, things that I can use more than once. I'm also thinking that perhaps a good way to divide the time up would be to work with my partner teacher (or content team) to divide up the graphic creation duties.
The last two years my partner teacher and I have started the year with a quick project that asks the students to make a presentation about what it takes to be great. We've had them making google presentations, but I like the idea of having them make an infographic. This would help avoid the situation where students create slides full of words and then just read the words to the class for their presentation. Having to present from an infographic would really help the students build their summary and presentation skills.