Introduction
This WebQuest is created to complete one of the tasks of IMOOC 2018 about the effectiveness of several search engines in providing information on infographic tools.
Task
A survey is conducted which incudes 8 search engines such as Google, Sweetsearch, Bing, Yahoo!, Ask.com, Yandex, ixQuick, and Duckduckgo.
The analysis is presented in the form of a table as follows:
Process
The survey follows several steps:
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Evaluation
Search Table for WebQuest Practice
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Search Engine |
Search Terms |
Best Search Results 10 = best 1= worst |
Infographic Tools |
Cost (free, paid) |
Ease of Creating Infographic 10 = easiest 1 = most difficult |
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Infographic tools |
10 |
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Start for free Free |
9 – super easy and offers a variety of purposes, yet users have to pay to upgrade the performance. |
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Infographic makers |
8 |
Free |
8 – very simple and easy to use by students even though templates are not provided to inspire users |
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Best Infographic creators |
10 |
Start for free and upgrade to a package |
9 – attractive and offers a variety of purposes fir education and business. It also has a wide selection of templates |
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Infographic makers |
9 |
Free and premium for marketing materials which is not more 1$ |
8 – great resources for free and stages are easy to follow- given this, this tool is better to use for professionals not students |
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Infographic design free |
10 |
Free for basic education and premium package for upgrade |
8 – limited features in its free plan, for example classroom management is not allowed so it will be tricky for teachers to use it for collaborative projects. |
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Infographic software |
10 |
Free |
10 – downloadable desktop edition makes everything much easier when working online is difficult. |
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Infographic |
10 |
Free and premium package |
9- a lot of use cases from media to education purposes, free plan has limitation but still a lot to offer- very easy to create different types of interactive graphs |
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Infographic tools/makers |
10 |
Free and paid package |
9 - excellent use for education and offers a lot of templates pf different categories |
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Conclusion
From the survey, several conclusion can be drawn as follows:
1. all the search engines provide comprehensive information on Infographics including free and paid
infographic tools.
2. most search engines provide definition of what infographics are according to Wikipedia.
3. Even though it is not clear at one search, most infographic tools divide their product into business and
education purposes
4. Almost all infographic tools provide template of infographics in several formats
5. Some tools provide the desktop edition of infographic makers.