Goal for staff: Make each day your masterpiece. You have to apply yourself each day to becoming a little better. By applying yourself to the task of becoming a little better each and every day over a period of time, you will become a lot better. Only then will you be able to approach being the best you can be.

Goal for editors & advisor: Define success for those under your leadership as total commitment and effort to the team's welfare. Then show it yourself with your own effort and performance. Most of those you lead will do the same. Those who don't should be encouraged to look for a new team. — John Wooden

Thursday, March 20, 2014

Day 21: Briefs due & infographics

1. Briefs due! Are they uploaded before class and ready to go?
2. Editors edit briefs.
3. Staffers work on making an infographic.

A decade ago no one talked about infographics. There were charts, graphs, and pictures, but it's only been more recently when designers have combined all elements of design to convey information in a new and alternative way. Hence, the birth of the infographic! And now you're going to make one of your very own. So fun.

First step: dailyinfographic.com. Look around. Get inspired. See how others have presented data and information in fun and exciting ways. What makes one infographic better than another? What kinds of information is being represented?

Step two: gather some information. I don't care what you report on. Maybe it's how many people like dogs more than cats. Maybe how many hotdogs are consumed during the MLB season. Maybe it's some information you've already gathered for a past article. It's doesn't matter. What matters is that you have some fun information to represent visually. You do have to make sure that all of your sources are cited within the infographic.

Step three: make the infographic. Here are some free and fun places to make infographics

http://www.easel.ly/
http://piktochart.com/ (login: themavoice@gmail.com -- password: ilovetomakegraphics)
http://infogr.am/ (login: themavoice2014 -- password:same as piktochart )
https://venngage.com/ (login is same as piktochart)

There are more sources out there, but this is just a start.

Step four: get inspired by one of your own .... Morgan's take on college info. 

Please save your infographic either to your own desktop. Make sure you have a hardcopy for our next class.
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