Task1 - 4 and Assignment Infographic M5 LA4

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.

Infographic-1[1]	Infographic-2[2]	Infographic-3[3]

Complete this table based on your observation of the three infographics above.

QUESTIONS	Infographic-1	Infographic-2	Infographic-3
Where do you think this infographic can be found?	School’s Bulletin board or website for students	School’s Bulletin board or website for students	School’s Bulletin board or website for students
What is the title of the text?	M Study Tips	10 Ways To Study Smart	8 Top Tips to Boost your learning
What could be the author’s purpose for creating it?	Offer advide on best learning strategies	Offer  advices to study smart	Offer advice on best learning strategies
Who is probably the audience?	All students	All students	All students
Can you immediately get the author’s message? Why?	Tips #5 is not clear for me. The icon M isnot matched with the message	Not really. Tips #1, #7 and #10 need to be read carefully. The Icon used to represent them are not really matched with the message	Only sleep, focus, and exercise icon are matched with the message.
Can you find any clue about the source of each of the ‘tips’?	No.	Yes. It is youthcentral.vic.gov.au	Yes. Yourincrediblebrain.com

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	Infographics
	1	2	3
1        Study in a distraction-free place.		ü
2        Plan your study well.		ü
3        Make notes of what you study.	ü
4        Discuss your study with others to get better understanding of it.	ü	ü
5        Refresh your memory regularly by doing quizzes or exercises.			ü
6        Get to know about how you learn.		ü
7        Get sufficient sleep time.	ü		ü
8        Eat only healthy food.		ü
9        Take regular exercise to keep you fit.			ü
10    Keep yourself motivated to learn.		ü

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)
1        An Informative Posters or infogrpahic is a visual presentation of Information.	ü
2        It combines text and graphics.	ü
3        It is a simple, yet, well structured and well organized piece of text in itself.	ü
4        It is visually appealing to readers.	ü
5        It has a title, presented in lettering that can be read from a distance.	ü
6        It has sections that is labelled with clear headings.	ü
7        It contains text and graphics that are neatly arranged.	ü
8        It is supported by the use of relevant graphics that help illustrate the intended message.	ü
9        It is supported by grammatically acceptable written text.	ü
10    It has details of the sources used to obtain the information and graphics on its lower corner.	ü

Task 2: Get the general pictures of information presented in infographics

A      Let’s check how much you understand what is discussed in the text. Have a quick look at Infographic 4 and Infographic 5 to get your First impression on them.

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.

Infographic 4[4]                                                        Infographic 5[5]

1        First impression: What is the first thing that catches your eye? What might this tell you about what you are looking at?

I am so interested at the picture (plate) while paying attention to the title of the text. This tells me about a good balancing food for health.

2        Title: What is the title? Does that reinforce your thoughts regarding what you thought this was about, or change them?

The eatwell plate. Yes. I think so.

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  amount.

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?

Although the quantitative information is described with a plate, but it can make us clear how to measure it in amount. 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 govenrment 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 to 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?

It informs us about the eatwell plate is designed to make healthy eating easier. Eat foods from each group on the eatwell plate in the correct amounts each day.

B       Read Infographic 6 and answer the questions that follow.

Infographic 6^[6]

The emergence of pandemic influenza A virus strains mechanisms

1        First impression: What is the first thing that catches your eyes? What might this tell you about what you are looking at?

I am interested at pig and human but I couldn’t understand why the title is correlated with the pig before reading in details.

2        Title: What is the title? Does that reinforce your thoughts regarding what you thought this was about, or change them?

It is the emergence of pandemic influenza A virus strains mechanisms. It should be changed, It should be “Pig and Chicken around human in influenza A virus strains mechanisms”

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 mechanism the spread of the virus between the human environment and its surroundings such as chickens and pigs

4        Patterns: What are the patterns and connections visible in the infographic?

It is a cronological 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?

To inform the readers about the mechanism of this virus. Their audience are general people in society, health stakeholders, breeder.

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 pigs and birds 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?

I am so interested at this map with the reader round the world title. It 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?

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 categorial 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 percetage 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.

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Task 3: Identify main points of infographic presentations

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)	T/F
1        All kinds of food in the infographic are recommended for daily intake.	F
2        The recommended amount of food for consumption varies for different people by age and gender.	T
3        Vegetables is highly needed for your health; but you should eat only colorful vegetables.	T
4        It is recommended for males, young and adults, to have greater consumption of cereals.	F
5        Greater consumption of milk and other dairy products is recommended for elder children, teenagers and pregnant women.	T
6        The top category food is not recommended for daily consumption because many people do not need it.	T

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.

 

ASSIGNMENT

To complete your work on Learning Activity 4, you need to do the tasks in this assignment section. Go to the tasks now and follow the instructions.

Questions 1-6

Infographic: How to read a scientific paper

Answer Questions 1-6 based on the Infographic.

1.      What is the author’s purpose for writing the infographics?

To inform the reader about some tips for strategically and with a critical mindset reading and understanding research papers.

2.      What is the text about?

It is about some tips for reading and understanding research papers.

3.      Based on your first impression, how would you classify this type of infographic?

Is is ways — chronological and hierarchically infographics.

4.      Who are the target readers? Do you think it would also be useful for EFL teachers like you? Why?

The target readers are people in general, students, teachers, academics, researchers.

It can helps EFL teachers to comprehend what they read in details and comprehensive while it can improve the critical thinking for the teacher.

5.      Can you find the source of information of this infographic? Is it a credible one? What is your clue?

It is from rodriguenatalia.com. I think it is a credible information because Natalia Rodriquez is Communications Coordinator at Research4Life.

6.      Do a careful study on the infographic. Use it as a model to create your own. Think of a topic that you will need to explain to your students. Then, create an infographic on the topic.

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