Visme is a visual content creation platform that allows users to easily create engaging presentations, infographics, charts, reports, and even social graphics. I first learned about this platform while browsing the FreeTech4Teachers website, a blog by Richard Byrne. I’ve been in search of a free, user-friendly graphic design platform for students to use in class on their Chromebooks, so I was excited to try this one out. My thought is that software like this may help with student engagement and provide an opportunity to highlight digital literacy skills. For this reason, I’ve chosen Visme for this fourth and final Tech Tool Evaluation.
I used this program while teaching a lesson on Globalization and our participation in a global economy. Here is the lesson plan, in which I focused on the ISTE Standard Facilitator. My intention was to have students experiment with Visme to see if it’s something they’d like to use for future assignments. Visme is a rather intuitive and user friendly platform for creating beautiful graphic content. I found the program to straight forward, however, not all students felt this way. There were several who reported “glitchiness” and some grew impatient with tools and layouts. Overall, though, student feedback was positive. I noticed that the ones who were getting frustrated were the students who are well-versed in Adobe, so perhaps their frustration was a result of having to use something they are unfamiliar with. I will definitely be using Visme again in the future for personal and professional use. I like the stock templates as well as having the ability to start from scratch if I want. There are plenty of stock images, a huge selection of fonts, and customizable filters you can use with images too. You can even upload your own images if you want. I will give students another opportunity to use this platform in the future as well, but only time will tell if they end up liking it as much as I do. Here is a copy of the infographic I created as a model. I walked students through the layout process and had them hand draw outlines of theirs first. From there they began creating their own.
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