First Infographic - First Step

A New Experience  

"I hate the internet, but I can't get enough of it."

Hello, my dear fellows! Did you guys come back to check up on me, or did you accidentally click on my blog? Either way, you are stuck with me, and you are going to listen to me :). Now let me talk about the things I went through to publish this post and prepare an infographic from ashes.  

The week before, on Monday, I was tasked with preparing an infographic for the ICT class about the legal and ethical issues we covered in our previous sessions. Being eligible to choose any of the subtopics (plagiarism, copyright and fair use, safety and privacy from legal issues and netiquette, cyberbullying, and objectionable materials and educational control from ethical issues), I decided mine should be about plagiarism, considering it is quite common in the academic world and does a great deal of damage to academic integrity. Though I had enough resources to consult and enough information to implement in my infographic, I genuinely had no clue how an infographic should be prepared and how it best appeals to learners or parties of interest. After having a short tantrum (I am fine, no worries 😅), I started creating my infographic first by using Piktochart and later Venngage. The reason behind the shift of websites was that I got overwhelmed by the themes offered to me by Piktochart, and I found its dashboard hard to understand. While Venngage, on the other hand, was quite welcoming, easy to understand and had much better themes. In short, the overall process was difficult at first, but later it became a piece of cake 😄. Though I am not a big fan of digital technologies (I am not a bigot; it is just hard for me to adapt to them.), I believe, with the visual appeal they have and also because of their on-the-point nature, infographics are pretty much suitable for 21st-century English language classrooms. More specifically, for students, infographics can be a source of practical information about linguistic aspects like vocabulary and grammar. In a broader sense, however, infographics (other than being pragmatic) can do well in improving students' memorization and skimming skills (the lesser, the better, am I right haha?). 

Long story short, I enjoyed the overall process and consider it a "fancy" experience. 

Thanks for sticking around, folks! I'll see you all in my upcoming posts; stay safe 'till then. So long!

Crime of The Academic World: PLAGIARISM

(You can check out my infographic through this link or can check it out from below.)