Easelly

 Easelly

 Basic Information

Easel.ly allows users to create different types of infographics.

Primary Use:

• [General] Create & share different types of Infographics
• [Faculty] Presentation, Infographics, Reports
• [Students] Projects, Presentation, Group Sharing

Key Features:

• Designing posts for social media.
• Choosing pre-defined template designs for your post.
• Using the free photo library in your designs.
• Using free icon library in your designs.
• Accessing all premium pictures/icons for one price.
• Creating other then social designs like business cards.
• Advanced photo editing.
• Libraries of Fonts, Templates, Images, Graphs, Icons, and Charts.
• Printable PDF, JPEG, and PNG Export.

 
Easel.ly Intro 

Category: Infographics Tool

Keywords: Creating Media, Infographics, Presentation

 Detailed Information

Full Description:

Easelly is an infographic creation tool that guides users to build visual and text representations of a concept or idea. Easelly provides some themes and many objects, but it is up to the user to search through these materials and organize them into a cohesive infographic. Fortunately, the website offers an option to share finalized products, so there are many public infographics to choose from for a template. The site is easy to navigate, and progress on a project can be saved for later. Infographics can also be saved to a group, which simply allows other users to quickly find and view the work.

Tool Access

To access the tool online or for a related download link (if available) please see sources below:

• Free with only 10 Templates and 65 Photos
• Subscribe with Easelly Plans

Advantage/ Disadvantage:

Easel.ly is fun to use, easy to work with, completely customizable with tons of examples to start with and/or get your creative juices flowing. You’ll look like a pro with beautiful graphical infographic representation for your Social Media, and all your internal projects for both work and play. Responsive customer service. Small business worth supporting. Even great for mid-size businesses that benefit from an option to ‘do it themselves’ when appropriate. Great templates and flexible features let students learn through visual and textual design. The main disadvatage is The site’s free version provides limited themes and images; teachers cannot easily supervise student progress. Bottom Line: Even though the basic themes and images are limited, when prepared well, this tool can help students connect with content in a meaningful way.

Good for Teaching:

Teachers should first explore Easelly’s features and then thoughtfully create a project topic based on the available resources. Additionally, allot extra time initially for students to review the website’s features and the options for creating their own work. Once students have gotten started, the time needed to complete this project will vary. These infographics could be used as a creative project to open up dialogue or as a summative assessment.

Good for Learning:

Easelly can be an engaging and effective tool for learning: Students interact with content in new ways by creating infographics and gaining more experience using technology. This site’s variety of resources and examples entices users and encourages creativity. Easelly is nicely open-ended, so it can be used for anything; it just requires thoughtful preparation. Completing an infographic is empowering to students and allows them to have more control over their learning, and the site’s emphasis on visuals makes it accessible to students who might struggle with written language. Overall, the site’s flexibility is both its biggest strength and its greatest liability. Students can have meaningful experiences with the content they produce, but teachers need to prepare enough guidance for students so that they don’t flounder.

  Reviews [For Future Use]

Public and Internal reviews on the quality of the tool and ease of use to learn/ implement.

 Learning Expectation [For Future Use]

General guidelines of how long it typically takes to learn and be comfortable (basic, advanced, expert levels) with the tool as well as what capabilities users have at each level.

• Level of difficulty to learn/ use for each level:
  • Basic  Use/ substitution: 2-4 hours of use
    • General familiarity with the tool
    • Ability to import documents in from MS Word or Powerpoint
    • Ability to create a simple document and share
  • Advanced Use/ augmentation: 20- 30 hours of use
    • General comfort with the tool
    • Ability to make a presentation from scratch including text, graphics, video, and with basic thoughts on style.
  • Expert use/ transformative (modification / redefinition): 40+ hours of use
    • Complete comfort with the tool
    • Ability to offer advice and guidance to others on the tool
    • Ability to use the tool for various design purposes: presentation, booklet, ePortofolio…
    • Understanding of layout, style (font, colors, themes) to meet end users needs

 Examples

Additional Examples:

• Best Easelly Infographics of 2015 Examples
• 10 Great Examples of Using Infographics for Education Examples
• See Lessons for more education examples

 Tutorial Guides

 Templates

If you are interested in starting with a template, which often have background, color theme, and fonts, it may save time and highlight new design elements.

• Easelly
• Staff Generated Templates

 Lesson

 Crowdsource  [For Future Use]

To learn from other faculty or to share your thoughts or resources (e.g. templates) please see below:

• Comments (either blog style or discussion based)
• Upload their examples/ samples (ability to post information in form)
  • Form components: (For future form)
    • Name
  • • Submission type ( Examples, Guides, Lessons, Templates, Reference Link)
  • • Title
  • • Purposes/ Uses
  • • Description (optional)
    • Attachment – Upload or Link
  • Date and Time Uploaded
  • Contact Information (hidden)
  • Download Stats
  • Rating Stats

 Reference

The key resources used to make this resource page. Most all information is public except for specific TCS generated resources. For more examples and resources (e.g. guides, templates, etc) see below:

• PickSaaS
• The Art of Education University
• Commonsense
• Finances Online
• G2