TRANSLATOR'S EXPERIENCE

Hello!!It's the translator of the “DARK SIDE OF TEXTBOOKS” activity of this week.
My task consist in explain five key words of this task because the translator has to take terms that were discussed during the task, the more relevant terms and the more appropriate for understand it.

INFOGRAPHIC: information graphics or infographics are graphic visual representations of information data or knowledge intended to present information quickly and clearly (Mark Smiciklas, 2012). It is a tool which transform the complex data in visual, simple and understandable information. Besides, it's an indisputable fact that images are processed in the brain faster than words. It is very successful to use this tool for several reasons, for instance, summarizing data for a better understanding.

Now I am going to name the types of infographic programs it could be a good choice to use: Visualizor, Google Developers, Ease.ly, Piktochart, Infogr.am, Visual.ly, Infoto Free, Vengage, Dipity and Get About.

1. Visualizor: This generator could be the start of how  will be portrayed in the future.You can visualise your resume in one click and also take a look at previous examples.

2. Google Developers: display real live data with Google Developers, this one is simple to use and free.

3. Ease.ly:  easel.ly offers a dozen free templates to start you off and you can customize the text with range of fonts, colours, text styles and sizes.

4. Piktochart: the Piktochart's customizable editor lets you modify colour schemes and fonts. It is perferct for design proportionaly images according to the data, and so on. There is also a free version.

5. Infogr.am: customising the data that makes up the infographic takes place in an Excel style spreadsheet. It could be esasy edited and it is an Excel style spreadsheet.

6. Visual.ly: visual.ly is both a tool and a community for infographics creators, this is a platform created in 2011 that allows you to shared infographics and to creat one.

7. Infoto Free: build infographics based on your photo taking habits. This one consist in taking the EXIF data attached to your photos and builds nice-looking infographics from it.

8. Vengage: it is very easy to use, because you can have a lot of icons, charts, background themes, etc.

9. Dipity: It is  great one but the premium can offers more, backgrounds and tools, also can offer custom iphone apps.

10. Get About: this is a free Windows app that lets you monitor your social media activity, also it will help you visualize how you connect and share with your network

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Mark Smiciklas (2012). The Power of Infographics: Using Pictures to Communicate and Connect with Your Audience

Internet marketing lounge . (2015). Internet Marketing Lounge . Retrieved 22 May, 2015, from http://www.workwithmikenwani.com/6-infographic-tools-for-telling-your-story-with-images-and-visualizations/

Sarah James, S. .J. (2014). 10 free tools for creating infographics. Retrieved 22 May, 2015, from http://www.creativebloq.com/infographic/tools-2131971

COMIC: Story or history explained by bullets or boxes containing illustrations and wherein some or all of the cartoons may contain a fairly short text. Also, can be defined as an ensemble of paintings and words making a story, it could be an adventure comic, a manga comic, anime comic and so on.

<<Lessing asserted that painting works in space and depicts one moment perceived all at once, whereas poetry is apprehended in time and so can depict a succession of moments. Lessing therefore insisted that painting and poetry be kept entirely apart to avoid tainting each other and turning a painting into "a speaking picture" or a text into "a freakish kind of writing">> (Paul Gravett, 2014).

What make a person be concern about a comic? It might be because encourage the person to join the words with the pictures to make a clear image of the story in their heads.

References:

Paul Gravett (May 2014). Comic books: A freakish kind of writing. [ONLINE] Available at: http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/may/02/comic-books-freakish-writing. [Last Accessed March 2015].

TEXTBOOKS: are a tool for teachers in education, to show the pupils the information they have to learn. They are used in schools, mainly. The textbook contain a lot of information for the child to learn, it is based on the curriculum but in some cases other criteria depending on the editorial. The hardness depends on the educational level in which the child is study, so it won’t be the same text for a eight years old child and for a 12 years old either.

We’ve also missed the fact that high quality textbooks support both teachers and pupils – they free teachers up to concentrate on refining pedagogy and developing engaging, effective learning. (Tim Oates, 2014.)

In short, authors and publishers had made books that were so horrendous that you can just about rule out any improvement in a student’s knowledge of that subject. The basic tactic is to talk around a topic, throw in everything but the kitchen sink, and jumble up the whole mess with lots of hardly-relevant pictures and sidebars. (Bruce, 2012)

The objective of the textbook is to manege improve the children knowledge, but this purpose is not always obtain.

References:

Bruce Deitrick Price (November 2012). Why Textbooks Are So Terrible. [ONLINE] Available at: http://www.edarticle.com/articles/30181/why-textbooks-are-so-terrible-and-what-you-can-do-about-it-.php. [Last Accessed March 2015].

Tim Oates, (November 2014). Why textbooks count. Cambridge Assessment. 

EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT: Many occupations require a certain level of education in order for someone to be eligible to work in that profession. (Alison Doyle, 2013). It is necessary for pursuing a career in the future.

Refers to the highest level of schooling that a person has reached. At the primary and secondary school level, educational attainment refers to the number of grades completed. At the postsecondary level, it refers to institutions attended and certificates, degrees or diplomas obtained (Statistics Canada, 2012).

Alison Doyle (2013). Education Levels and Employment. [ONLINE] Available at: http://jobsearch.about.com/od/careereducation/a/education-level-employment.htm. [Last Accessed March 2015].

Statistics Canada (2012). Educational attainment of person. [ONLINE] Available at: http://www.statcan.gc.ca/concepts/definitions/education02-eng.htm. [Last Accessed March 2015].

RESOURCES: are also tools for teacher to teach the child. Those are used for compliment the learning process in different ways. Besides, enganging studing to take charge of their own learning with high quality enganging and relevant tools designed for today’s busy teachers and parents. This resources are programs, contest, puzzles, interactive games, and lessons plans.

Discovery Education (2010). Free Teacher Resources. [ONLINE] Available at: http://www.discoveryeducation.com/teachers/. [Last Accessed March 2015].

Hope you like it! ❤ ❤

By Marina