Friday, 23 September 2011
10 Revealing Infographics about the Web
The use of graphics as a tool for educating viewers
is a great approach to sharing information. It’s an effective way of
composing otherwise boring information and data into an easy-to-consume
and fascinating way.
In this article, you’ll discover a variety of infographics and visualizations associated with the internet. You might just learn a thing or two about the web by looking at these awesome artworks!
Click on the image to go to the larger version of each graphic.
1. Web Trend Map is a graphical representation of the top domains and personalities on the web. It maps websites and notable persons onto the Tokyo subway system as train stations with their popularity and success represented by their position and size.
2. Who Participates and What People Are Doing Online is an infographic by BusinessWeek that shows who’s online and what they’re doing. The graphic reveals that the most popular demographic on the internet include persons between the ages of 18-26.
3. Internet Traffic shows the sources of internet activity in 2008. It illustrates that China, constituting 17% of the world’s web users, is the largest source of traffic, with the United States as the second (this may change in 2012 based on growth projections).
In this article, you’ll discover a variety of infographics and visualizations associated with the internet. You might just learn a thing or two about the web by looking at these awesome artworks!
Click on the image to go to the larger version of each graphic.
1. Web Trend Map is a graphical representation of the top domains and personalities on the web. It maps websites and notable persons onto the Tokyo subway system as train stations with their popularity and success represented by their position and size.
2. Who Participates and What People Are Doing Online is an infographic by BusinessWeek that shows who’s online and what they’re doing. The graphic reveals that the most popular demographic on the internet include persons between the ages of 18-26.
3. Internet Traffic shows the sources of internet activity in 2008. It illustrates that China, constituting 17% of the world’s web users, is the largest source of traffic, with the United States as the second (this may change in 2012 based on growth projections).
Friday, 16 September 2011
Collection of Social media Info
Storytelling is becoming increasingly important as I continue to
evangelize social media at Cisco. And like most corporations we use
PowerPoint to tell that story. I’ve been working on some fancy
PowerPoint’s lately and have been searching for the right graphics to
help tell that story. Which has lead me to this collection of great
social media infographics:
Sources:
If you have any cool, new infographics to share, by all means – share!
Sources:
- 25 Mind Blowing Social Media Infographics aggregated by WebDoctus
- Understanding the Power of Social Media with Infographics aggregated by Design Reviver
- Social Media Infographics aggregated by Oscar Berg
If you have any cool, new infographics to share, by all means – share!
Wednesday, 7 September 2011
Helpful Web 2.0 Resources (with links)
Helpful Web 2.0 Resources
- Blogger - Create your own blog for your classroom or professional learning community.
- Centre for Learning & Performance Technologies - It contains over 2,500 tools that can be used for creating learning and performance support solutions as well as for managing your own personal learning.
- Classroom 2.0 - the social networking site for those interested in Web 2.0 and collaborative technologies in education.
- Creative Commons - Copyright free images, copyright your stuff. Find images donated to the public for your classroom homepage or unit of study.
- Edublog - another blogging tool. Visit my blog created on Edublog.
- Flickr - Copyright free images.
- FreeStar - Free Video Converter (wma to mov)- Quicktime for web hosting.
- Go2Web20.net - the complete Web 2.0 directory.
Thursday, 1 September 2011
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