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SPAN 390-01 Course Guide: Creating Infographics (Canva)

SPAN 390-01 Infographic Assignment Library Guide

What is Canva?

“Canva is a free graphic-design tool website, founded in 2012. It has an easy to use drag-and-drop interface and provides access to over a million photographs, graphics, and fonts. It is used by non-designers as well as professionals. The tools can be used for both web and print media design and graphics.” (Wikipedia)

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Activity 2: Practice Making an Infographic

Using your topic from project one answer the following questions: (questions adapted from Abilock & Williams)

  1. Who is your audience that cares about this problem?
  2. What is the specific problem or issue that they care about?
  3. What choices, options, or trade-offs will they need to consider in order to make a decision (if known)?
  4. What research will you need to do to address questions 1-9 listed in your project assignment specifications? 

Individual Wireframing from Research

Using your existing bibliographical entries as a resource and your project assignment specifications, visualize the key information on a sheet of paper. The key to the successful completion of this task is to remember that you are attempting to give a visual representation of the relationship of ideas and the hierarchy of relations between them.

 

  1. Look over your research annotations and identify the essential information that should be included in your infographic. It may be helpful to go back to your infographic specifications (1-9) and your existing bibliographic entries to review your answers concerning content, audience, etc. You may also have to continue researching and finding additional resources to complete your infographic!-
  2. On paper sketch out the placement of your information, remembering that ideally you will be substituting much of the text with images. You may have to redo your sketches multiple times.

Create your Infographic

  1. Drawing upon what you have learned, begin creating an infographic on your topic using Canva.

Submitting your Infographic to OAKS

Your instructor will let you know how to submit your project for grading.  Typically instructors ask students to export their infographic as a PDF file and submit it to the dropbox in OAKS.

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