1. You just finished creating infographics using a new site in development, infogr.am. An infographic is a visual way to display data or to tell a story. It includes text, pictures, graphs, and sometimes videos. Check out your classmates’ infographics by clicking on the class page.
Infographics are popular online. They seem to be everywhere! You looked at some examples on a couple different websites, including this one.
Boston.com and The New York Times both frequently use infographics to accompany news stories. Check out this graphic about the Catholic Church’s shift in population.
It just so happens that Boston.com is actually hiring an infographics journalist- check it out here.
2. New College Planning Tool- What do you think?
http://www.whitehouse.gov/issues/education/higher-education/college-score-card
Let’s check this out and see how it works.
3. This website boldly claims it ranks the best of everything.
Pick a category to explore. What do you think?
4. Just for fun- what your Facebook likes say about you