Infographics, and tools to create them

I love the idea of presenting information in infographic form, and I know our students do, too. As someone who is very visual, looking at information presented in graphic form is both comprehensive, informative, and appealing. I've been playing around with three different sites that offer templates and tutorials of how to make impressive and interactive infographics. I'll give you my thoughts on Easel.ly, Piktochart, Infogr.am:

Easel.ly is a simple way for students and educators to create infographics. There is both a free version and an unpgraded version that costs only $3.00/month, so if you are thinking of using something worth subscribing too, this is extremely affordable. With the paid version, there are dozens of templates, and countless fonts and images. Still, the free version provides a range of free images and fonts to utilize as you create an infographic. In the end, I really like Easel.ly and am considering paying $3.00 a month for it. I love the sample templates it had; they seemed colorful, unique, and fun, and they stood out compared to the other two sites' sample templates. Easel.ly is also available in many different languages which, as an educator, is a highly notable quality. 

I moved on to Piktochart, and I loved that it immediately opened with a YouTube preview of how to use it. It was pretty easy and self explanatory, but I did wish the “Free” options were most vast, as the graphics and backgrounds seemed to be a little boring. The subscription for Piktochart is more expensive, at $12.50/month for the Lite version, or $24.17/month for the Pro version. It seemed that the free version did not offer NEAR as many option for images, templates, and fonts as the paid version. I did end up using Piktochart to create the below infographics. Because the instructional YouTube video immediately popped up, it pulled me in and I started creating an infographic right away.

I thought I was going to like Infogr.am right way, as from the beginning it seemed the most self explanatory, but as I started to try to create an infographic, I got very frustrated very quickly, even just trying to change the font size was proving to be difficult. I'm not sure what I was doing wrong but it just intimated me and frustrated me. There are both free and paid versions as well, with the costs started at $19.00/month and moving up from there. I did like how their website was set up; it's very comprehensive, professional, and obviously well-established. Infogr.am also has specific templates to suit specific social media sites, which I found really interesting and beneficial.

In the end, I would like to try them all eventually. I went with Piktochart this time because the tutorial pulled me in and encouraged me to start creating. Below is the infographic I created, which took me about 35 minutes to complete.

For a closer look at my infographic, Click Here.