I See What You Mean: Using Data Visualization to Inspire Action Across Diverse Curricula

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Author(s): Allison Smith Walker (High Point University, USA)and Georgeanna Sellers (High Point University, USA)
Copyright: 2018
Pages: 37
Source title: Visual Imagery, Metadata, and Multimodal Literacies Across the Curriculum
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Anita August (Sacred Heart University, USA)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-2808-1.ch009

Keywords: Education / Educational Technologies / Information Science Reference

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The infographic represents a combination of visual imagery and big data, and it can be implemented successfully as a teaching tool across multiple educational settings. The infographic is also, by definition, a multimodal genre. It incorporates visual and textual elements, statistical evidence, research, graphic design, and digital literacy for both the creation and distribution of an effective data visualization through 21st century mechanisms of social action and interaction. In the following chapter, the authors, two instructors at a small, private, liberal arts university in the suburban South, will present examples of infographic curricula from undergraduate courses in first-year writing and professional writing in the medical humanities and analyze the effectiveness of this approach on student learning, particularly in relation to the impact of infographic instruction on the skills of synthesis, public resonance, transfer and social action.

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