Sunday, June 8, 2014

Thing 15

#15 Infographics

I downloaded the Viz app and struggled a bit with it shutting down numerous times as I progressed through the infographic construction.
Visualize will be a good presentation option for students; helping them move away from the habit of reading from a PowerPoint presentation.
There are many possibilities given the camera access on student devices.  I can picture students using an app like Visualize  after a nature walk - identifying and "counting" what they have seen, or presenting experiment results from a science experiment.

In the end I found this app easy to manipulate but a bit cumbersome - especially when trying to fit text into frames. A sample:

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Interesting. I like your idea for the nature walk and visual identification.

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