Picktochart
Description
Piktochart is an online tool that can be used to create infographics, posters, pamphlets, flyers, and presentations. Piktochart is easy to navigate and provides several templates that are easy to follow. The templates vary from colourful to dynamic with options to customize using their free pictures, diagrams, layouts, or figures. There is also an option to provide your own pictures, charts, tables and graphs to allow the user to self-supply themselves. Piktochart will also provide suggestions and outlines in premade templates that can guide first time users. These suggestions can be easily deleted as they take up text boxes within the template and will often be placeholders for the actual information the user wants to put in.
Piktochart is an online tool that can be used to create infographics, posters, pamphlets, flyers, and presentations. Piktochart is easy to navigate and provides several templates that are easy to follow. The templates vary from colourful to dynamic with options to customize using their free pictures, diagrams, layouts, or figures. There is also an option to provide your own pictures, charts, tables and graphs to allow the user to self-supply themselves. Piktochart will also provide suggestions and outlines in premade templates that can guide first time users. These suggestions can be easily deleted as they take up text boxes within the template and will often be placeholders for the actual information the user wants to put in.
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Justification for Using this Tool
Piktochart provides an online tool that can be utilized to create colourful, engaging, and informational projects to be shared in different settings. Piktochart is already being used in nursing schools as a tool to help provide information to students about various topics (Bradshaw & Porter 2017). The tool is used to create flyers, posters, presentations, newsletters, and reports to provide information to a select audience. Infographics are also being used at the undergraduate level for bachelor of science students in the public health sector (Falk 2016). Infographics have become integral in explaining and representing information in various e-portfolios with professional backgrounds (Haverkamp & Vogt 2015).
Inspire Me section in Piktochart provides the opportunity for others to share their creations with each other to the public. You can share privately as well via share link within the work itself.
Collaboration
Piktochart provides an online tool that can be utilized to create colourful, engaging, and informational projects to be shared in different settings. Piktochart is already being used in nursing schools as a tool to help provide information to students about various topics (Bradshaw & Porter 2017). The tool is used to create flyers, posters, presentations, newsletters, and reports to provide information to a select audience. Infographics are also being used at the undergraduate level for bachelor of science students in the public health sector (Falk 2016). Infographics have become integral in explaining and representing information in various e-portfolios with professional backgrounds (Haverkamp & Vogt 2015).
Inspire Me section in Piktochart provides the opportunity for others to share their creations with each other to the public. You can share privately as well via share link within the work itself.
Collaboration
- Inspire Me section in Piktochart provides the opportunity for others to share their creations with each other to the public. You can share privately as well via share link within the work itself.
- The information is summarized into separated blocks, chunking information into subcategories to be explored at the learner’s leisure.
- Providing graphics and information to supply the learner with relevant illustrations to support the overall understanding of the topic. Photos, graphs, charts, and representations of information of data in graphics from infographics engage users.
- Information can be selectively divided into different slides, blocks, subheadings, subcategories, and subtopics via organization of the infographic, pamphlet, or presentation. This will organize information separately to highlight important pieces individually and emphasize topics specific to the overarching theme.
Strategies for Use
Strategy 1 – How to Begin Creating an Infographic Using Piktochart
Creating an infographic utilizing Piktochart’s template.
Strategy 1 – How to Begin Creating an Infographic Using Piktochart
Creating an infographic utilizing Piktochart’s template.
Strategy 2 – How to Begin Creating a Presentation Using Piktochart
Creating a presentation utilizing Piktochart’s template.
Creating a presentation utilizing Piktochart’s template.
Helpful Resources
Resource 1 - Piktochart Tutorial: A Simple Guide to Piktochart for Beginners
Resource 1 - Piktochart Tutorial: A Simple Guide to Piktochart for Beginners
- Basic tutorial for beginners and creators to first learn about the tool.
- Editing and creating an infographic to be made for a newsletter or potential e-mail.
- Creating infographics using Piktochart’s premade themes that will outline areas to fill-in. These will be in the form of fillable boxes that can be edited, added, or removed.
- Creating flyers, posters, or customized projects using Piktochart. This video will explain how to add text and organize the structure of your flyer or poster.
References
- Bradshaw, M. J., & Porter, S. (2017). Infographics: A new tool for the nursing classroom. Nurse Educator, 42(2), 57-59. doi:10.1097/NNE.0000000000000316
- Falk, N. L. (2016). Infographic development by accelerated bachelor of science in nursing students: An innovative technology-based approach to public health education. Nursing Education Perspectives, 37(5), 299-301. doi:10.1097/01.NEP.0000000000000066
- Haverkamp, J. J., & Vogt, M. (2015). Beyond academic evidence: Innovative uses of technology within e-portfolios in a doctor of nursing practice program. Journal of Professional Nursing, 31(4), 284-289. doi:10.1016/j.profnurs.2015.03.007
- Video, P. (2014, June 30). How To Create a Piktochart Infographic Easily. Retrieved November 7, 2018, from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SzI9RzvnwZA
- Video, P. (2017, January 28). Piktochart Tutorial: A Simple Guide to Piktochart for Beginners. Retrieved November 7, 2018, from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eq-85gzw3GI
- Video, P. (2018, April 19). How to Create An Event Flyer in Just 5 Minutes. Retrieved November 7, 2018, from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DSWq30GVE1U&t=