Therapy+infographic

We are going to work in small groups to each create an infographic about therapy that will be on display in our room.

What is an infographic you might wonder? Well, they can be a series of related images with information (like a meme but the goal is to inform not to be funny...) or one larger graphic with information.

Example of first: (you could think of this as 1 in a series of 3 that are somehow connected with a theme)

Example of the second: (not awesome, too much text) Awesome example would be the schizophrenia infographic you looked at last week.

Your job, in your groups, will be to figure out what information is the most salient. Efficacy, prevalence, theory, aims, all of the previously listed, none of the previously listed, it is up to you to decide. A clear narrative is the first thing to establish.

Then you are going to boil all the info down into either one large infographic or a series of smaller ones, here are some tips from this guy on how to create an infographic.

1. **Be accurate **. It seems obvious, but you will find all infographics are not accurate. For example, make sure a pie charts add up to 100%.

2. **Tell one story really well **. An infographic that tries to do too much ends up not telling a story at all.

3. **The 10 second rule **. Create infographics that tell a story quickly.

4. **Big fonts are not data visualizations **. Krum states, "displaying the number in a large font doesn't make it any easier for the audience to understand." Make it clear what you mean. Ask others what they think the message is.

5. **Minimize text **. Along the lines of #4 above. This is another tip that seems obvious, yet we see text-heavy infographics all over the web.

6. **<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Georgia,Utopia,'Palatino Linotype',Palatino,serif; font-size: 15px;">Eliminate chart legends **<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Georgia,Utopia,'Palatino Linotype',Palatino,serif; font-size: 15px;">. If the viewer needs a legend, your infographic's story might not be as clear as it should be.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Georgia,Utopia,'Palatino Linotype',Palatino,serif; font-size: 15px;">7. **<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Georgia,Utopia,'Palatino Linotype',Palatino,serif; font-size: 15px;">Pick a good topic **<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Georgia,Utopia,'Palatino Linotype',Palatino,serif; font-size: 15px;">. Some topics are not as suitable for infographic display as others.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Georgia,Utopia,'Palatino Linotype',Palatino,serif; font-size: 15px;">Then you are going to pick a way to create your infographic.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Georgia,Utopia,'Palatino Linotype',Palatino,serif; font-size: 15px;">Here are five free tools that you can use to create infographics.



<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #0000ff; font-family: Georgia,Utopia,'Palatino Linotype',Palatino,serif; font-size: 15px;">[|Infogr.am] <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Georgia,Utopia,'Palatino Linotype',Palatino,serif; font-size: 15px;"> is an online tool for creating interactive charts, graphs, and interactive infographic posters. There are four basic chart types that you can create on <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #0000ff; font-family: Georgia,Utopia,'Palatino Linotype',Palatino,serif; font-size: 15px;">[|Infogr.am] <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Georgia,Utopia,'Palatino Linotype',Palatino,serif; font-size: 15px;">; bar, pie, line, and matrix. Each chart type can be edited to use any spreadsheet information that you want to upload to your Infogr.am account. The information in that spreadsheet will be displayed in your customized chart. When you place your cursor over your completed chart the spreadsheet information will appear in small pop-up window. Infogr.am infographics can include videos and maps along with pictures and text. Your Infogr.am projects can be embedded into your blog, website, or wiki.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #0000ff; font-family: Georgia,Utopia,'Palatino Linotype',Palatino,serif; font-size: 15px;">[|Easel.ly] <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Georgia,Utopia,'Palatino Linotype',Palatino,serif; font-size: 15px;"> provides a canvas on which you can build your own infographic by dragging and dropping pre-made design elements. You can use a blank canvas or build upon one of Easel.ly's themes. If Easel.ly doesn't have enough pre-made elements for you, you can upload your own graphics to include in your infographic. Your completed infographic can be exported and saved as PNG, JPG, PDG, and SVG files.



<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #0000ff; font-family: Georgia,Utopia,'Palatino Linotype',Palatino,serif; font-size: 15px;">Piktochart <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Georgia,Utopia,'Palatino Linotype',Palatino,serif; font-size: 15px;"> provides seven free infographic templates. Each template can be customized by changing the colors, fonts, icons, and charts on each template. If you need more space on the template, you can add more fields at the bottom of the templates. If you need less space, you can remove fields from the templates.



<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #0000ff; font-family: Georgia,Utopia,'Palatino Linotype',Palatino,serif; font-size: 15px;">EWC Presenter <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Georgia,Utopia,'Palatino Linotype',Palatino,serif; font-size: 15px;"> is a new tool from Easy Web Content (a website creation and hosting service). EWC Presenter makes it easy to create slideshows, banner graphics, and interactive infographics. The slideshow creator and banner graphic creator don't stand-out from other tools like them. The EWC Presenter's infographic animation option is worth noting. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #0000ff; font-family: Georgia,Utopia,'Palatino Linotype',Palatino,serif; font-size: 15px;">EWC Presenter's <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Georgia,Utopia,'Palatino Linotype',Palatino,serif; font-size: 15px;"> infographic tool allows you to animate elements within your infographic. And as was featured in a post early this month, EWC Presenter infographics support audio files.



<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #0000ff; font-family: Georgia,Utopia,'Palatino Linotype',Palatino,serif; font-size: 15px;">Canva <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Georgia,Utopia,'Palatino Linotype',Palatino,serif; font-size: 15px;"> is a service that makes it easy to create beautiful slides, flyers, posters, infographics, and photo collages. Creating these graphics on Canva is a drag-and-drop process. Start by selecting a template then dragging and dropping into place background designs, pictures, clip art, and text boxes. Canva offers a huge library of clip art and photographs to use in your designs. You can also upload your own images to use in your graphics. Your completed Canva projects can be downloaded as PDF and PNG files. You can also simply link to your online graphic.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Georgia,Utopia,'Palatino Linotype',Palatino,serif; font-size: 15px;">You can also use a large piece of chart paper and your own drawing skills.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Georgia,Utopia,'Palatino Linotype',Palatino,serif; font-size: 15px;">The choice is yours.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Georgia,Utopia,'Palatino Linotype',Palatino,serif; font-size: 15px;">You will be graded on the following requirements. Accurate information, visually interesting, flow, useful information (audience appropriateness), well edited, we will determine percentages in class.