The first step in creating a meaningful infographic is choosing a topic that is relevant. My class is currently struggling in the area of punctuation, yet I noticed we have no posters or infographics in our classroom to outline these tools in our room. I then had to decide how I wanted to display this information. I didn’t want to create an infographic that was too overstimulating with crazy colors and pictures, as I knew that there would be a lot of information on this image already, with all of the different punctuation marks that my students are learning about. I chose the template on Canva that can be seen above as it was aesthetically pleasing, but not too “in your face”. When plugging in the information, I had to decide the most relevant punctuation marks that I would include, as there are so many to choose from. I chose the eight most recent punctuation marks that my students have learned about and often confuse: periods, commas, question marks, exclamation marks, colons, semicolons, quotation marks, and parenthesis. I first started with naming each piece of punctuation, providing an example of what it looks like, and explaining how they are used. I organized the information with a title at the top, and separating each tool on a different tan piece, as seen above.
After recieving feedback, my infographic changed slightly. Peers informed me that it could be helpful for students to see the punctuation used properly through example sentences. I thought this was a great idea, so I added examples in each box of how to use the punctuation tools. Coming up with example sentences, as well as coming up with definitions, proved slightly difficult. For some punctuation marks, there are more than one way they are used. A comma, for example, is used in many different situations. There could be an infographic focusing solely on when to use a comma. I had to decide the most common use of each punctuation mark to define and example in order to fit information for each on one page.