There are many reasons why infographics can serve education — why they have served education. Of course, one of the most compelling is that the concepts gives learners one more way to express their learning. According to the Bit Rebels blog entry… There is no question that people lately [...]
Archive for April, 2011
25 Jawdropping YouTube Video Facts, Figures & Statistics
Jaw-dropping is right. One of the best ways for a popular website to crow about its successes is the use of statistics. This is even more true with the world of video, which is ruled by things like view counts, comments, subscriptions, and ratings. We’ve all heard some of YouTube’s most imp[...]
Social Media and College Admissions
Are colleges using social media as part of the stu dent admis sions process? Schools.com explored this topic with the Read ing Stu dents like an Open Face book info graph ic. It’s hard enough to get teenagers to under stand that online pho tos and sta tus updates will be a per ma nent record [...]
How Renewable Energy is Working for Hawaii
It’s a corporate infographic, so that angle has to be factored in — perhaps a good place to practice the art of asking questions about the answer you see. From the infographic… Hawaii is one of the most fossil fuel-dependent States in the nation, but the Hawaiian Clean Energy Initi[...]
Easter by the Numbers
Here in the United States, we eat soooo much candy at Easter. Delicious chocolate eggs, chocolate bunnies, Peeps, jelly beans and more. It doesn’t take a healthcare degree to figure out what all that candy means for our bodies. If you want to keep the pounds off, stay away from the basket. But if[...]
Are Public Schools Flunking or Passing?
This data set is part of the Harris Poll from Harris Interactive. Link: http://goo.gl/cBOQ3 [...]
Sugar consumption buckets
Lovely imagery showing sugar consumption for day through lifetime. The average American consumes 45.3 pounds of sugar in a year. It’s a part of a read-later NYT article on the toxicity of sugar. Check out the similar pic for high fructose corn syrup. [via] Source Blog Post: htt[...]