The Very Hungry Kids

This week's assignment, to create an infographic was challenging from the beginning. Butterflies might know all about them, but this caterpillar was lost in the weeds, at first. I had no idea where to even begin. Before I could start, I needed a topic. So while I was procrastinating, I checked my email. I had an email from www.nokidhungry.org and just like that, I had an idea. Hungry kids and the poor quality of school lunches are two things that get me going. There is no reason why kids are hungry in America. There is no good reason we are feeding our kids the crap that we pass off as a "nutritious" school lunch. I work in a school where most of the kids are eligible for free or reduced lunch/breakfast.

I used Canva to create my infographic. Some of the things I found challenging with canva.com were that I had a lot of trouble (spent a lot of time) resizing things. Everything from text boxes to images, to graphics. It just seemed very time consuming, which could be attributed to the fact that it was my first time using the program. Another challenge was that while I wanted to use their graphs, I could not figure out how to adjust them to the percentages that I needed to represent my data. I hope they have a way to do that, I just didn't figure it out. The HELP menu wasn't very HELPful when it came to that problem.

One thing that was super easy was dragging in my own photos from the web/my desktop. I would definitely explain that to kids, because the free graphics or pictures don't always match with what you want to show. Why pay even a dollar when there are tons of free photos to choose from on the web.