Week 3 – Activity 2 – Create and Comment on Educational Graphics

Purpose – to create a graphic that simply shows the stages of cell division. Most likely as an introduction to cell division.

Type of Graphic – Representative graphic and Interpeitive graphic.

Analyze the content for the graphic – The content in this case talks about what is happening throughout the stages of cell division and this graphic is to help visualize the process.

Create the graphic guided by:

• Principles
  • Selection – I selected the images showing the most important stages. Created some text explaining what is happening at some of the stages.
  • Organization – I organized the images in logical order and in a vertical fashion. By keeping it vertical I was hoping to prevent any distortions that may occur when posting to my blog.
  • Integration –  I then integrated the text with the images by placing them where they describe the image most effectively.
• Actions – Images and text were place on a white background for easiest viewing. Images were aligned vertically. I wanted to align the text all to the left margin but then I though they would be better placed closer to the image they represent in order to prevent confusion.
• Tools – I did a Google search to find my images making sure they were labelled for reuse with modification. Then I played around with Inkscape and Gimp to see if I could manipulate the graphic. I spent a lot of time trying to figure out which program to use. Inkscape was not suitable for manipulating my graphic and I found Gimp too complicated to do the simple things I wanted to do, so I used Paint to put together my graphic. I choose a font that I though stands out but wasn’t too large to take away from the image.

Evaluate for effectiveness – This will be done in a reply post.

Sources:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e0/Major_events_in_mitosis.svg/2000px-Major_events_in_mitosis.svg.png

https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Major_events_in_mitosis.svg