Do You Know Infographic?

An infographic is an image that represents knowledge, information, or data. It is like an technical posters. Why is an infographic interesting and attracts people's attention? Well, an infographic has a good looking, and mostly the information it contains are easy to understand along with the pictures it provides, so that makes people wants to read an infographic more than a book.

Major concepts:

• Why is an infographic better than a book
• How to create an awesome infographic
• What is infographic

Research

• According to the research, publisher that use infographic are more success in the work in average of 12% than those who doesn't. 

Excellent Tips

• Choose a topic- Choose an interesting topic then think of a title that catches attention.
• Sources- Include a diversity of sources and statistics.
• Promoting- Promoting online (facebook, twitter, social media websites). And make it easy to share (best to use embed).
• Avoid- Avoid white backgrounds and don't include too much words in the infographic.
• Notify- Notify a network of websites about the infographic to promote and get more views.
• Search ranking- Pay attention to search ranking. There are about 34,000 searches conducts in google every seconds, and 75% of that people doesn't scroll past first page.

How To Measure Your Success?

• Determining the increase in inbound links using google webmaster tools.
• Accessing image file loads of the infographic in your server logs.
• Determine the amount of followers, fans, sharing on social media websites.

Potential Strength/ Advantages

• Easy to follow- The author gave clear steps to follow.
• Fits the present- The topic fits the present, because people nowadays use computers in their daily life and infographic may be helpful.
• Research- The research shows that it really works and the source is trustworthy.

Potential problems/ Limitations/ Disadvantages

• The readers who wants to follow the instruction should have basic skills of technology, because they need to make the infographic look nice and the usage of languages affect too.
• First link- The article claimed that according to the research, most people click on few first link they saw in google, that means if you are planning to make an infographic, you should make it perfect.
• Privacy- The infographic should be unique and you have to make sure that it doesn't look similar to others because when it comes to online, you might can't delete it, and if you copy other's idea, you'll be in trouble.

Questions

• How to know that the infographic is good enough?
• What do you think is better, books or infographics?

"What Is An Infographic? A Graphic to Define Infographics." Customer Magnetism. N.p., n.d. Web. 07 Nov. 2012. <http://www.customermagnetism.com/infographics/what-is-an-infographic/?asid=c228f21b>.

Fun Apps That Teaches

There are many fun apps that teaches you something but you might not notice it. Even games that you think it's non-sense and has no good might teach you something too. I have many favorite apps and I think about it, there are good things too. These are some of my favorite apps that teaches something:

• Angry Birds- This app is very popular among every ages. You might think that it is just a game, but I can tell you that it teaches several things to kids. The instruction is to estimate the distance and angles and throw the birds. See, that is one of the learning potential, kids estimate the distance and angles. The game provides more than one character, there are many kinds of birds we can use. That is another potential, kids know how to differentiate the characters and they know which one gives them more points.                            
•  Hay Day- This is a farming game. The simple target of this game is for you to be able to control and make money from the farm. It teaches players to think and plan (how will you make money?). You have to know how to manage the farm without losing benefits.
• Plant vs. Zombies - This is my favorite game. The players are predicting and estimating in this game. They have to know when will the zombies get to them. They also need to know when and where to grow materials that helps them from zombies. There are also some evolutionary and adaptations concepts in the game.

Potential strength/ advantages

• Fun- Some apps are very interesting and give us entertainment.
• Practice skills- For apps that teaches something, you might not notice when you use it but it is already like you're practicing.
• Useful - some apps helps your life easier, you can use it in classroom and etc.

Potential problems/ limitations/ disadvantages

• Using in the wrong way- First thing is most applications has their main target. What did it gives you? Example, games might give you entertainment. Sometimes it teaches something in additional but some people use it in the wrong way. Example, action games might teach you that it is bad to kill but some kids wanted to follow. 
• Parents - Like I said before, some games are violent, so it might need a parent or an adult to watch the kids carefully.

 "Blogging About The Web 2.0 Connected Classroom." : Apps That Teach! (And Might Be Fun Too..). N.p., n.d. Web. 05 Nov. 2012. <http://blog.web20classroom.org/2012/09/apps-that-teach-and-might-be-fun-too.html>.
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