Organizing information workshop, Information literacy, Erasmus+ project New Literacy Set, 2015-2017

1. ORGANIZING GIVEN INFORMATION:
MINDMAPS, TIMELINES,
INFOGRAPHICS
Information literacy curricula
Workshop number 3

2. VISUAL ORGANISING AND
REPRESENTING INFORMATION

3. Data organizing
Your problems while learning...
Hard to memorize and conect data?
Hard to organize data you collected while doing
your research?

4. Brainstorming…
• talk about how you learn and organize your
information given via a new learning material
• write down your key activities during data
organizing and learning
• discuss the pros and cons of the most often
methods

5. Conclusion
Do you see how important is proper data
organization and communication of ideas with
others?
What kind of teaching materials do you like the
most and why?
Why is visualisation of content usefull and
important?

6. How can visuals help?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlqkjH3iSQo

7. Using visuals
• Have you already used the visual
representation of organized information?
• Do you think they can be useful in learning or
organizing given information?
• Ever heard of mind maps, timelines and
infographics?
Let us see how they can help!

8. MIND MAPS
“Mind Maps are the meta-language
of the human race.”
– Tony Buzan

9. What is a mind map?
• a diagram used to visually organize
information
• a visual thinking tool
• it maps out your thoughts and ideas in a
brain-friendly way
• created by Tony Buzan

10. What is it made of?
• combines colour, visual-spatial skills and
imagination to trigger your brain
• hand-drawn on paper or produced using mind
mapping software

11. • brainstorm ideas quickly and easily
• take fast and effective notes in classtime or
meetings
• make concise notes from printed material
• study better and remember more
• prepare and present information or ideas
• memorize facts more effectively and
meaningly
It can help you...

12. You can use it for...
• thinking (brainstorming, decision-making and
project planning)
• learning (note-taking, note-making, studying)
• communication (presentations, meetings,
speeches)

13. How to mind map?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ztjf8ksehvI

14. Mind mapping rules
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=76Roy4E4ZbE

15. EXERCISE 1
• make a mind map of the topic that your
teacher gave you – teamwork
• use the printed materials
• follow the rules
• use the „How to make a mind map” guide
• switch your mindmap with another team
• use the „How to read mind maps” guide and
try to read and explain it

16. Digital mindmapping tools
• Mindmeister
https://www.mindmeister.com
• Mindomo
https://www.mindomo.com
• Popplet: https://popplet.com
• Bubbl.us: https://bubbl.us
• Wikimindmap:
http://www.wikimindmap.org
• SpicyNodes:
http://www.spicynodes.org
• WiseMapping:
http://www.wisemapping.com
• Mind42: https://mind42.com
• . . .

17. EXERCISE 2
• Create an account on the mind mapping tool of
choice
• Follow your teachers demonstration on the
online mind mapping tool
• transfer the mind-map you created on paper into
s digital form
• share it with classmates and the teacher

18. TIMELINES

19. EXERCISE 3
• devide into teams
• box on the main table with pictures with date and
info
• hang the pictures in date order on stretched
string or wall, alternatively use table
• What have you created? Can you read the
information from others?

20. What are timelines
• picture of events that happened in history
• displaying a list of events in chronological
order
• helps visualize data over time
• long bar labelled with dates alongside
• events labelled on points where they
happened

21. Types of timelines
• can be linear or parallel (comparative)
• linear - one subject and time frame
– horizontally, vertically or curved
• parallel - two or more subject areas at the
same time and compares them
• might compare
– historical events
– two or more subjects
• handdrawn or digital

23. Timeline creating tools
• Tiki-Toki: http://www.tiki-toki.com/
Timeglider: http://timeglider.com/
• Timetoast : http://www.timetoast.com/
• Timeline Js: http://timeline.knightlab.com/
• Capzles: http://www.capzles.com/
• Ourstory: http://www.ourstory.com/
• Myhistro: http://www.myhistro.com/

24. EXERCISE 4
• watch demonstration
• devide into teams
• transfer the timeline you created manually
into a digital form
• share it with classmates
• try to read and explain work of others

25. INFOGRAPHICS
„Human brain processes visual information
at a rate of 60 000 times faster than text!”

26. What are infographics?
• visual representations of information, data or
knowledge
• complex information explained simply, quickly
and clearly
• eases creation and communicating conceptual
information

27. What is it made of?
• universal symbols, pictures, visual elements
• signs, charts, maps, diagrams
• telling „a story“
• get the message and point
• take away textual data

28. Infographics types
• various types and combinations
• statistically based
• timeline based
• comparison based
• process based
• map based

29. The good and the bad
• uses pictures, graphics,
symbols and icons
• no overloading with
text or details
• focus on the main
message
• use clean design
• simple colour scheme
• too much data
• draws away the focus
of the keypoint
• poorely created graphs
• bad combination of
elements
• overcrowded
• lack of simplicity
• hard to read

30. EXERCISE 5
• examples of infographics
• reflect on the criteria
• judge each of them
• which are designed good and why?
• which are designed badly and why?
• discuss please!

33. Good job!!!

34. Infographics tools
• Piktochart: https://piktochart.com/
• Canva Infographic Maker:
https://www.canva.com/create/infographics/
• Vizualize: http://vizualize.me/
• Google Developers:
https://developers.google.com/chart/
• Easel.ly: https://www.easel.ly/
• Infogr.am: https://infogr.am/
• Venngage: https://venngage.com/

35. EXERCISE 6
• create an infografics on the digital tool
• prepare materials given by the teacher or choose
a topic
• organize the informations from the materials and
those found online
• take care of the suitable design
• create an infographics
• represent your work

36. CONCLUSION
Do you think visualisation tools are usefull to
you?
How can they help you get better grades and
improve your skills?
Can you represent it with a mind map?

37. Evaluation please!
Thank you!
https://play.kahoot.it/#/k/e6c7f4c5-7add-46f8-babc-42506eb119ed