Interactive Infographics are online representations of information or data that usually allow the user to “interact” with it and the data that is visualized. They’re generally created by newspapers for their websites, and often, though not always, are accessible to English Language Learners. In fact, they can be an exceptionally accessible way for ELL’s to learn complicated information that might ordinarily not be comprehensible.
I’ve posted about quite a few interactive infographics over the past three years. And I’ve posted The Best Interactive Infographics — 2009.
I thought readers might find it useful to learn which sites I have found to be the best sources of good interactive infographics. In addition to listing them here, I’ll be adding a section on them to the Teacher’s Page of my website.
The links on this list will take you directly to the Interactive Infographics page of the named newspapers.
Here are my picks for The Best Sources For Interactive Infographics:
The Boston Globe
The Cleveland Plain Dealer
The New York Times
The Denver Post
Star Tribune
Orange County Register
The Agence France Presse has great interactive graphics. However, they’re difficult to find on the web. I’ve recently discovered that MSN News hosts the most recent ones. However, they’re not permanent url addresses, and disappear after a few weeks.
Additional suggestions are always welcome.
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January 4, 2010 at 2:39 am
Hi Larry
I just love the infographics you find. They have so much learning potential.
I have started to do some searching for them too. I have been looking for them in LOTE news sources.
January 4, 2010 at 8:48 am
Once again, thank you for a quality list. May I add a suggestion, beyond USA borders: AFP (Agence France-Presse) offers quality interactive “infographics” as they call them. We (NB DoE, Canada) have subscribed to them since ’06 and receive on our secured FTP (to be then deployed on the provincial Sharepoint portal for ALL our teachers) a constant number of graphics covering various headlines or general topics (about 400 a year!). They are available in 5 languages.
Some are more elaborate than others but all are well thought out and solid. Info to be found here: http://www.afp.com/afpcom/en/taglibrary/know-how/graphics
(BTW, the North American office is in Washington DC…)
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