An infopic pairs a picture with text and is designed to communicate a message. The message might be a summary, quote, definition, notes, data, weblink, hashtag, or other informational tidbits. The information might come from a conference, workshop, activity, lesson, video, book, a conversation, etc. Your blog, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and Google Plus are great places to share infopics.
The process of creating an infopic forces you to listen or read information and decide what is most important to remember and share. Learners of any age can make an infopic!
Go to learninginhand.com/30 for a transcript with web links from the video above.
You can choose among hundreds of apps and websites to make an infopic! Some apps may have great photo editing tools but lack text options, so you may end up using a combination of apps to make your infopic masterpiece. Below are some apps that are great for enhancing images and/or adding text.
Windows Apps
MacOS Apps
Looking for copyright friendly images and clipart to use in your infopics? Here are my favorite sources of free images.
I use Keynote on my Mac to create infopics that I post on Instagram (username @learninginhand). These microlearning tidbits are for teachers who want to learn a little technology a few times a week. I use Keynote because I'm very familiar with it's design capabilities. I could create similar infopics in PowerPoint or Google Slides.
Wordle has inspired the creation of many other grid-based word and number games. I'm listing some that teachers might like to offer students.