INFOGRAPHICS TOOLS
- Easelly – One of AASL’s Best Websites for Teaching and Learning in 2013
- Piktochart – Free and Pro accounts.
- Infogr.am – Upload data, create graphs, charts and more. Free and pro acounts.
- Viz – Handy, easty to use iOS app for creating colorful, simple graph charts.
- Create A Graph – Tools to help students (and adults!) understand & creat basic types of charts and graphs.
- Visualize.me – Highly specific tool, creates an attractive “resume†(of sorts) from your LinkedIn account. (Polly’s example)
- Canva – In addition to creating posters, banners, resumes, etc, you can create infographics too. (Canva Tips)
- Venngage – Free and paid accounts. Templates for a variety of purposes.
- PowerPoint, Keynote – An overlooked tool. Lots of options within these common programs. Save a slide as a jpg with a a simple screenshot.
- Juice Labs Chart Chooser – Helps you select the type of chart you should use for various purposes.
- Over 100 Incredible Infographic Tools and Resources (Categorized)
QUOTE GRAPHICS & WORD CLOUDS
Powerpoint and Google Slides are handy tools for making a bunch of photo/quote images quickly. Paste a photo into a slide & use the title area to write a quote over top. “Save As JPEG†will export each slide as separate image.
Some online tools for creating quote graphics and word clouds are:
- GetStencil – Highlight text on a web page, click the browser bookmarklet and quickly create a quote. Formerly called ShareAsImage. Free account limited to 10 images a month. Search large selection of background images by keyword.
- Quozio – Bookmarklet on browser toolbar turns text into a colorful graphic in a few seconds. Handy, free. Limited background and style choices.
- Pablo – from the folks at BufferApp. Add text, select backgrounds. Handy search feature to find the right background image from over 30,000 images. Includes choices of shape and size optimized for Pinterest, Instagram, Facebook and Twitter. Free.
- TrySpruce – Quickly create images for Twitter. Free service. Includes a keyword search tool to find interesting background images. Background images seem to be from same source as GetStencil.
- 23 Tools and Resources to Create Images for Social Media
- Word Clouds with Tagxedo and Wordle
MISC STUFF MENTIONED IN WORKSHOP
Google Drive
Google Maps
http://pinterest.com
https://eagereyes.org/
http://visual.ly/
http://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/tag/infographics/
http://knowmore.washingtonpost.com/2015/11/30/what-california-would-look-like-if-the-worlds-ice-sheets-melt/
http://padlet.com
http://pafa.net
http://www.schrockguide.net/
http://vimeo.com
https://thenounproject.com/
