Easelly
This site provides many options to create infographics
to desegregate information. It prides itself in knowing their infographics are
pieces that people will actually read. A
patron is not going to spend much time with something that is not easy on the
eyes and organized. It offers accounts for teachers, students, businesses, and groups.
Each package comes with over 320 templates to put your creativity to use. Instead
of a free trial, it offers a 7-day money back guarantee. You can start with a clean
template or use one of the examples. You can’t go wrong with being able to
personalize it with your own pictures and icons in addition to theirs. It also gives
you the option to hire a designer and real time collaboration. Their ratings
are off the charts!!
Piktochart
This website gives you templates for not only
infographics but for presentations, posters, fliers, and social media. A unique
feature I found allows you to insert illustrations. The color options make the
templates come alive. You can edit the visual or use the classic version of editing.
If you choose to upgrade to the pro package, you are given unlimited access to all
the tools but is a pricey fee of $168.00.
You can pay monthly, but I only see this website being used for businesses
who are trying to sell something or creating a presentation. While the website
is organized and helpful to design, I personally feel overwhelmed with all the
options.
Infogram
Upon immediately clicking on the website, they grab
your attention to get you to purchase a plan. That is not something I would be
interested in. I feel you would want your patron to enjoy exploring first. The more
money you spend, the more features you get to use. It gives you to the option
to have multiple users depending on which plan you pay for. I personally don’t
think most of the templates are that appealing compared to the other sites I
explored. I think this tool is more of a money grabber as they try to get the
patron to upgrade while designing your project.
After exploring the infographic websites, I chose
easel.ly to create my masterpiece. Although I found it easier to navigate and
more user friendly, I decided to start with a blank template and design my
own. Maybe this is the hard way, but I
wanted to challenge myself. The examples it gives were great visuals.
As I started my design, I began to get ideas for infographics
to display library information such as:
Visuals for sales at the book
fair.
·
Checkouts
for year
·
New
books
·
Inventory
·
Award
lists
Here is a look at my infographic:
The title of my article is: “How parents’ views of their kids’ screen time,
social media use changed during COVID-19.”
McClain, C. (2022,April 28). How parents’ views of their kids’ screen time, social media use changed during covid-19. Pew Research Center: Retrieved: June 28, 2022 from: https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2022/04/28/how-parents-views-of-their-kids-screen-time-social-media-use-changed-during-covid-19/
