LEARNING TASK M5 LA 4
Task 1: Understand the nature of
Infographics
A
Coming to terms with Infographics. Study these three samples of Infographics and complete the
table that follows. Click on the image to get larger view.
Complete
this table based on your observation of the three infographics above.
Where do you think this infographic can be found?
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School’s Bulletin board or school website for students
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School’s Bulletin board or school website for students
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School’s Bulletin board or school website for students
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What is the title of the text?
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M Study Tips
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10 Study Tips for All Students
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8 Top Tips to Boost your learning
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What could be the author’s purpose for creating it?
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Offer tips for sudents to
study
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Offer 10 ways how to learn
better
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Offer advices on best learning strategies
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Who is probably the audience?
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The Students of Michigan University
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All students
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All students
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Can you immediately get the author’s message? Why?
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Yes, I can. I got the author’s point in the title. The
study tips are given for students especially at Michigan University. The
author put “M” Study Tips for the title
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Yes, I can. It’ clearer
than infographic 1 because the author elaborates them in detail.
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Yes, I can. The way the author chooses the title and
presents the ideas of 8 Top Tips to Boost Your Learning is interesting. It makes the readers
understand it easily.
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Can you find any clue about the source of each of the ‘tips’?
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Yes, I can
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Yes, I can. It is from
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B.
Read the advice statements below.
Which infographics suggests each of them. Put a check mark (ü) in the right column to indicate your responses.
ADVICE
STATEMENTS
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Infographics
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1
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2
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3
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1
Study in a distraction-free place.
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ü
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2
Plan your study well.
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ü
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3
Make notes of what you study.
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ü
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4
Discuss your study with others to get better
understanding of it.
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ü
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ü
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5
Refresh your memory regularly by doing quizzes or
exercises.
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ü
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6
Get to know about how you learn.
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ü
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7
Get sufficient sleep time.
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ü
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ü
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8
Eat only healthy food.
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ü
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9
Take regular exercise to keep you fit.
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ü
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10
Keep yourself motivated to learn.
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ü
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C.
Based
on your experience in doing the learning activities for section A and B, which
of the following statements is a characteristic of a good infographics? Put a
check mark (ü) in the right column to indicate
your responses.
Characteristics
of an Informative Poster (Infographics)
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1
An Informative Posters or infogrpahic is a visual presentation
of Information.
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ü
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2
It combines text and graphics.
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ü
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3
It is a simple, yet, well structured and well organized
piece of text in itself.
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ü
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4
It is visually appealing to readers.
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ü
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5
It has a title, presented in lettering that can be read
from a distance.
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ü
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6
It has sections that is labelled with clear headings.
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ü
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7
It contains text and graphics that are neatly arranged.
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ü
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8
It is supported by the use of relevant graphics that
help illustrate the intended message.
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ü
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9
It is supported by grammatically acceptable written
text.
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ü
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10
It has details of the sources used to obtain the
information and graphics on its lower corner.
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ü
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Task 2: Get the general pictures of
information presented in infographics
What is
the first thing that catches your eyes? Can you immediately get the impression
of the thing that the text title suggests?
Go back to the infographics and do a
closer reading on them to find answers to the questions that follow.
1.
First impression: What is the first thing that catches your eye? What might
this tell you about what you are looking at?
The first thing that catches my eyes is the
picture of the plate. There are some groups of food on the plate that we can
choose. The picture tell that we should have the right portion of food and eat
various good food in our daily meal to keep our health.
2.
Title: What is the title? Does that reinforce your thoughts
regarding what you thought this was about, or change them?
The title is “The eatwell plate” and “For
Health..eat some food from each group..everyday!”
The title reinforce my thoughts that they
are about right portion and various food for maintaining the good health.
3.
The story: What is the story that the infographic is trying to tell?
Is it just a visualization, does it show change over time, is it comparing and
contrasting?
It tells about the amount of food we should eat with grouping. It is comparing the kind of
food we should eat in right portion.
Infographic 6[6]
Infographic 7[7]
Infographic 8[8]
4.
Patterns: What are the patterns and connections visible in the
infographic?
They are a categorial infographic with text
and image.
5.
Numbers: What is the quantitative information presented in the
infographic? What does it tell you?
The quantitative information of the
infographic is described with a plate by dividing the the food into some groups with the right portion.
The information is about the amount of food we should take by comparing with
other food.
6.
Data: What is the data source? Use your claim testers to
determine if this data source if valid and trustworthy.
It is from Department of Health
(Government) and we can check it by visiting the government website.
7.
Audience: Why do you think the author(s) chose to present the
information in this way? Who is their audience?
To persuade the readers to eatwell in each
day. The people in general especially people who care for their health.
8.
Summarize: Summarize the infographic in a few sentences. What is the
gist of the infographic and the most important take away points?
The Infographic informs us to eat well for
maintaining good health. We can use ‘the eatwell plate’ to help us get the
balance right. The plate shows how much of food we should eat from each food
group. We should eat food from each group on the eatwell plate in the right
portion each day.
B Read Infographic 6 and answer the
questions that follow.
Infographic 6[6]
1
First impression:
What is the first thing that catches your
eyes? What might this tell you about what you are looking at?
The first thing that catches my eyes
is about the swine that contributes most in pandemic influenza A virus.
2
Title: What is the title? Does that reinforce your
thoughts regarding what you thought this was about, or change them?
The title is The emergence of
pandemic influenza A virus strains mechanisms.
3
The story:
What is the story that the infographic is
trying to tell? Is it just visualization, does it show change over time, is it
comparing and contrasting?
The infographic is not just
visualization. It tells the mechanism how the influenza A virus spread in the
environment.
4
Patterns:
What are the patterns and connections
visible in the infographic?
It is a chronological text and
images.
5
Numbers: What is the quantitative information
presented in the infographic? What does it tell you?
I couldn’t find the quantitative
information at this infographic because there is no numbers information.
6
Data: What is the data source? Use your claim
testers to determine if this data source if valid and trustworthy.
It is from Nature Publishing Group
in 2006. I think it is valid because of the legal institution.
7
Audience: Why do you think the author(s) chose to
present the information in this way? Who is their audience?
The author presents that information
in order to inform the readers about the mechanism of this virus. The audiences
are people in general, health stakeholders, and breeders.
8
Summarize:
Summarize the infographic in a few
sentences. What is the gist of the infographic and the most important take away
points?
Influenza A viruses of swine and
avian have infected humans with each of these so-called zoonotic infections
provides an opportunity for virus adaptation to the new host. Fortunately, most
of these human infections do not yield viruses with the ability of sustained
human-to-human transmission.
C Read Infographic
7 and answer the questions that follow.
Infographic 7[7]
1
First impression:
What is the first thing that catches your eyes? What might this tell you about
what you are looking at?
The
first thing that catches my eyes is the colors that used in the map. They might
tell us about the reading habits in the country.
2
Title: What is
the title? Does that reinforce your thoughts regarding what you thought this
was about, or change them?
The title is “Readers round the
world”.
3
The story:
What is the story that the infographic is trying to tell? Is it just a
visualization, does it show change over time, is it comparing and contrasting?
It
tells about the reading habits are depending on the country. It contains texts
and images comparing the reading habits depending the country.
4
Patterns:
What are the patterns and connections visible in the infographic?
The patterns are chronological,
geographical, and categorical with numbers and image.
5
Numbers: What is
the quantitative information presented in the infographic? What does it tell
you?
It is presented with the percentage
of reading habits depending the country. It tells me about reading habits with
time of reading, the type of book, gender, and age.
6
Data: What is
the data source? Use your claim testers to determine if this data source if
valid and trustworthy.
It is from Superjob.ru. It should be
checked by visiting the website to find out the validity.
7
Audience: Why do
you think the author(s) chose to present the information in this way? Who is
their audience?
To describe and compare the reading
habits of readers around the world depending on the country. The audiences are
from general people, especially academics, govenrment, librarian, book
publisher and writers.
8
Summarize:
Summarize the infographic in a few sentences. What is the gist of the
infographic and the most important take away points?
It shows us the reading habits
are depending on the country you live in. This infographic presents most avid
readers in the world. In India, people spend with a book more than 10 hours a
week. In the top five countries, there are also Thailand, China, Philippines,
Egypt, and the Czech Republic. United States is in the fourth group (marked in
yellow color), together with Canada, Germany, and Italy. Readers in these
countries read between 5 and 6 hours a week.
A
READ INFOGRAPHIC
8
Let’s check how much you understand the
new concepts. Based on information in the infographic, read the statements that
follows. Are they True or False? Write T
for True and F for False in the space provided.
Infographic 8[8]
Characteristics of an Informative
Poster (Infographics)
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T/F
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1
All kinds of food in the infographic are recommended
for daily intake.
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F
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2
The recommended amount of food for consumption varies
for different people by age and gender.
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T
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3
Vegetables is highly needed for your health; but you
should eat only colorful vegetables.
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T
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4
It is recommended for males, young and adults, to have
greater consumption of cereals.
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F
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5
Greater consumption of milk and other dairy products is
recommended for elder children, teenagers and pregnant women.
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T
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6
The top category food is not recommended for daily
consumption because many people do not need it.
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T
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B. Now, answer the
following questions based on information in the food pyramid infographic.
1
What is
the title of the infographic?
It is Healthy Food for Life (The
Food Pyramid)
2
Who is the
author?
It
is www.healthyireland.ie while the source is form Department of
Health in December 2016.
3
What could
be the author’s purpose for creating it?
To provide practical support for
individuals and families to make healthier food choices and to ultimately
improve their health and wellbeing.
4
Who is
probably the target audience?
People in general, health
practitioner, doctor, nurse, nutritionist, government, people who want to live
better health.
5
Does the
design and wording “work” for this audience? Could it be better?
Yes. I think the design is so
comprehensive and easy to understand. Yes. It could be better by redesigning
the picture and the size of the text.
6
Is it easy
for you to get the author’s message? Why?
I think it is easy to det the
author’s message because the food given pyramid helps us to understand what we
should choose food for our life.
7
Which
information, facts, and data are essential to include? Which aren’t?
I think the reason from giving the
advice and prohibition to eat food must be clear. Serving size guide is not
essential to include in this infographic.
8
Is the
information presented in the infographic reliable? What’s your clue?
Yes. It is. The title is healthy food for our life which
described by the food pyramid with the correlated information.
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