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Hi everyone!!!


Here I am again! In this post I bring you a tool to make your own infographics. 

An  infographic is a very visual tool to show, explain, review or introduce content.

The tool that I am going to introduce you (and which I have chosen to do my infographic) is Piktochart, a simple, easy-to-use, free, and complete on-line tool. In my opinion, Piktochart is outstanding for making an infographic, since it permits you to incorporate thereon all the ingredients for an infographic to be perfect. 



It offers a good vary of images, shapes and icons to form the infographic visual; but not only that, it also permits to add different backgrounds, charts, maps, videos, and letter fonts to complete and improve your infographic. And, what is more, we can upload our own photos, drawings or images too; as well as to feature links to different interesting websites, and therefore having an complete and nice infographic. 

I strongly believe that this is a very simple tool to use, and an interesting one to know; deffinetely, it is a very great tool for our lessons. 


As I said before, Infographics are tools that enable us to do a good range of activities. They could be employed by teachers in order to present or review contents in a very visual, engaging, attractive and totally different manner. Moreover, they could be also used by students, to do oral presentations of a topic or as a review at the end of a lesson. 

On the other hand, it is necessary to admit that if you want to do a beautiful, engaging and complete infographic, you need to spend a lot of time working on it... but I think it worth it!

For all these reasons, I think I will use printed or virtual infographics with my students. 

Below these lines, you have the Infographic I  have created, for sumarizing the content: Cristopher Columbus and his travels. As you can see, it includes the title, a body with visuals (pictures, timeline, facts...) and short explanations (welll, as short as I could...)



I have created it for printing it and give it to students, this is the reason why I have not included links or videos. But those are possibilities that I will use in my next infographic for sure.



My infographic, I think, it would be a beautiful way to present the topic and motivate children for researching and summarizing. This tool could be used also at the beginning of every topic/lesson, therefore students can anticipate what they are about to study/learn.



Piktochart is, with none doubt, one of the tools that I have liked and enjoyed the most and which I will use without any doubt in the future. 

See you soon!


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