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The infographic would be very useful in my science classroom. I plan on using it when I have the students present data from a lab. It would be a great way for them to interact with the data and present it in a unique way. Mindmap can easily be used for note taking. I plan to make this an option when taking notes instead of the pencil/paper option. The comic creator is awesome. There are a couple of units that I cover where one of the options is to create a children's book explaining the information. For the first time last year, I had a student ask if they could do a comic. This would be a great resource for them to use to create the comic instead of drawing everything by hand.

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In my math class I could use infographics to have students break down a word problem or a multi-step algebra problem into its smaller pieces and explain the steps. They could also use them to make a poster that identifies the parts of an equation or different types of geometric figures (lines, rays, planes, etc.) This would be a great way to practice the vocabulary and have them make their critical thinking evident.
I my science class, we use mindmaps sometimes already. Right how I have an activity where they make one using a template in google drawings, but using one of these other apps would likely be more user-friendly. It would be a great way for them to work on organizing/understanding their reading prior to class discussion.
Comics provide a great opportunity to show students practical applications of the math we are doing, while also offering a chance to throw in some humor. I also like the idea of reaching different learning styles through comics and promoting class discussion (especially if they need to dig a little deeper to understand the math comic).
Timelines could be used in math to show step-by-step procedures for solving an equation, or could also be used in science to sequence steps in processes or to organize information about the changes in the earth over time (which is a new topic I will have to cover this year).

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For my Information Technology 1 class that I will be teaching we will be doing a unit over PowerPoint. I haven't decided exactly what the final project will be over but my students could use mind maps to detail out all of their information that they will need to put into their project.
I will also be teaching Personal Finance so I could incorporate infographics a lot in that class. There are so many statistics and facts that students could use for that class. I could also do timelines in personal finance. If we were talking about banking. The evolution of money. Or if we talked about famous banks or rich people. The cartoons seem a little lower level but I think I could incorporate this into my computer 7 class. I could make one of my bell ringers out of the comic strips.

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For my content area (Business) I feel like mind mapping would be the best to use. Being able to map out all ideas in this manner would get lots of information out in a informal manner. It is a great way to brainstorm and also just to throw ideas out and see if they stick.
I enjoyed the cartoon building, but I think it would be used more for a humor factor in a business class and especially given the age that I would be teaching.
Building a timeline could be used when working on a research project and maybe using it to plan for the future in relation to a business.

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I don't have a classroom but I can say that I have had instructors that I have worked with in the past use mindmaps for their students to create outlines for papers or to even work in group projects together.  Giving them all access to the mindmap allowed everyone to input their ideas onto the map and allow the group to devise a plan for their paper.
For my current position I work quite a bit with info graphics. When the instructor provides massive amounts of content we like to break it up and provide the learner an infographic to download or look it. This provides a break from reading to visually looking at something. The more senses we can incorporate the more likely it is that the learner will retain the information.

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I plan to use mind maps to help students organize literature genres and library skills.  I usually read the students a story and I could have them create the mind map after listening to the story.  I could have students create cartoons as a fun writing activity.  This would be a higher learning activity to challenge all learners.  Timelines could be used to organize different authors works.  This would make for a neat author study.  Infographic could be used to review parts of the Dewey Decimal System.  Connecting an image to the numbers and words might help them remember the meaning of each number.
These tools will be useful for me in the future.

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I plan to use mind maps to help student organize how concepts fit together and for use in summarizing scientific articles.  I liked how intuitive it was to use.
I could see using the infographic as a way to demonstrate student learning on a topic.  I also found this one easy to use.
The interactive timeline could also be implemented in my classroom as I like to integrate what else was going on in the time frame when we study scientific discoveries.
Finally, the comics could be fun, I don't have a concrete idea for implementation yet but middle school kids love jokes and this might be a great way to integrate that into our discussions.

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I have really enjoyed in learning about the different things I can now incorporate within my classroom. I teach preschool, so I really had to think about how I may use these types of technology with them. Two of the biggest ones I could use myself using is mind maps and infographic.

I would use Mind maps with them to help map out what we are going to be learning in the different unit I teach. The biggest two units I could see this benefiting my students is our clothing and pet unit. For clothing we will be able to mind map different clothes for the different seasons. For pets, we could map out different pets and their needs and how to care.

Infographics will grab their attention because of how appealing they could be. They would not have to be extremely detailed but it would be a different way to view the materials we are learning about.

I am actually very excited to get back to school in August to see how they work out!

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To conclude this topic, I plan to use mind maps, cartoons/comics, infographics, and time lines in my future teaching.

First, I will use mind maps in order to collect and organize student thoughts about a central concept. This visual is a great way to engage students and share their ideas in order for their idea to make the mind map. Students will benefit from seeing different colors representing different supporting ideas. After using mind map as a class for a while, I could see my students easily picking up on how to make a mind map, and eventually even make one themselves.

Second, I will also use infographics within the classroom. Infographics are visually appealing and allow you to represent data in an interesting way.

Next, I will use cartoons and comics. I believe these tools would be great hooks for grabbing student attention. Students will be able to respond and joke about ways they interpreted it.

Last, I can see myself using timelines to teach students. Younger students often have a difficult time understanding the concept of time and I believe providing a visual representation will help solidify that information.

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I think that infographics are the next wave of conforming to the increased desire to present the most amount of information in the simplest, easiest to understand, and most efficient manor. I am a big fan of the Infographics Show on YouTube and would recommend anyone looking for good videos for class to check them out. I want to experiment more with learning to make infographics in the hopes of one day using them to place emphasis on important points in class. I have experience in making mind maps but it has never really struck a cord with me. I am also not a fan of comics due to the large amount of time it takes to create them relative to the information gained from them. The interactive timelines are cool but I don't foresee teaching many lessons where history will be an important learning objective for the course. This module did give me ideas about increasing student engagement with similar services that are more popular with the younger crowd today, like animojis and bitmojis.

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I know for sure I will use the timeline right away. I teach American history and sometimes there are quite a few events that take place in relatively short time periods. I can use that to emphasize and review in one place. I am also really excited to use Mind-Mapping in my English/writing settings. I love the colors and visuals that can be added to it show some depth. I also think as a class we can use Mind-Mapping to create and focus on certain vocabulary words and how they relate to other words. I also think it would be good to use the cartoons to have students get in-depth with some of the characters in our reading books. We can create ones based on the inferences that students make about the traits of the characters, and how they could potentially react in different situations. My students have troubles creating those abstract scenarios in their heads, so this may help them create pictures in their heads.

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In my Spanish class we have used a few of these and I can see several other ways of using them in the future.
I have a few cartoons that I have used that help students make a connection with particular vocab words. I think that memes, like cartoons are great ways to inject humor into class and help students remember vocab or structures. We just use Spanish memes instead of English ones.
As I was going through the module and trying out different applications, I liked how Text2mindmap was immediately usable. I would use this when having students come up with vocab families. We had a unit on holidays last year and I just had students brainstorm related words and list them the board, but this would work fantastically especially since the students will all have devices to contribute words. We could brainstorm different holidays and the activities, food, decorations associated with each holiday. Then we could look up the vocab.
I spent time looking for info-graphics last year to have authentic resources to talk about in class (that's a big thing in language methodology now), but we really could have created our own info-graphics with student input. The great thing about teaching language is that every holiday and big event can be a source of new vocab and discussion in the target language.  We did create Venn diagrams in our class last year comparing and contrasting holidays that are similar in American and Latin culture, such as Halloween and Dia de los Muertos.
A timeline would be of limited use in my class. We only touch briefly on the history of different Hispanic cultures in class.
I do like this app, padlet, to have students share ideas with each other and I'll work on figuring out how to implement it in my class.

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As an upper level math teacher I have not really used any of these in the classroom (although I've worked with a few of these in other grad classes). However, I've used padlet in the digital media classroom to brainstorm ideas!! I can see that using cartooning and mind maps in DM could be very beneficial.  Right now we use handwritten storyboards to plan projects. Mind maps could easily do the same job.  And having DM students create infographics would help them to understand layout, color balance, use of white space for more advanced projects. I absolutely love these kinds of creative tech applications.  But upper level math (Algebra 2) may not be easiest place to infuse these kinds of apps. I could find a way - but would I be adding technology for technology sake and not to enhance learning? 

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As an upper level math teacher I have not really used any of these in the classroom (although I've worked with a few of these in other grad classes). However, I've used padlet in the digital media classroom to brainstorm ideas!! I can see that using cartooning and mind maps in DM could be very beneficial.  Right now we use handwritten storyboards to plan projects. Mind maps could easily do the same job.  And having DM students create infographics would help them to understand layout, color balance, use of white space for more advanced projects. I absolutely love these kinds of creative tech applications.  But upper level math (Algebra 2) may not be easiest place to infuse these kinds of apps. I could find a way - but would I be adding technology for technology sake and not to enhance learning? 

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I really enjoyed reading about these different tools, but here is how I think I would use them. For mind maps, I think this is kind of self explanatory where instead of talking about what kids know about a topic, you would pull one of the mind map websites up and project it onto your whiteboard/screen and students could see you doing it, or if you pre-taught how to use a specific mapping tool, the kids could do their own basic one to show what they know about a topic. The cartoon/comics websites I got really excited about and here's why! We are really into PBIS at our school and teaching expectations for students in different areas of our building. It would be fun to create comics and design characters that look like some teachers at the school that students would come into contact with to be giving the expectations in a given area. I am right along with Calena with the Nebraska History stuff! We used google slides last year to make a class presentation, but how cool would it be to have the kids create one of these with infographics. We are pretty tied down in Lincoln with our pacing so I only have so much time with certain subjects so I would have to be careful how much time they took, but it would be cool to give students the options to self teach themselves how to use some of these programs if they were done with their work.

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I can think of a lot of ways to use these resources! First, I would like to use mind mapping in place of the traditional brainstorming method I use. I would especially like to use it as a whole group. I can see my students really enjoying the cartoon/comics. I think it would be great for them to use this to recreate their favorite scene from a book. I can think of a ton of ways to use the timeline! I think infographic would be a great tool as well, but it looks a little more complicated, so I will have to practice with that one a bit!

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Calena Ohlson - mind mapping, infographic, cartoon, and timeline

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Calena Ohlson - mind mapping, infographic, cartoon, and timeline

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I think it would be fun to use mind mapping any time that a student is organizing before writing a paper. I see myself using it before writing research papers oreven organizing for narrative papers. We do a presentation on famous Nebraskans in Nebraska history, and I think it could be cool to use infographic or cartoon for that. Right now I do a poster board, but this would maybe get the kids a little more interested via technology. I can also see myself using the timeline portion for Nebraska history. We make a book that shows the beginning of Nebraska up to present, and this could be a cool way to show those final projects. Another way to use the infographic could be in replacement of y weekly newsletter.

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I am very excited about using these tools this year! I realize there's so much more I can be doing with technology that I'm not using.
I will be using the timeline as my intro project. Last year, I had them write a "All About Me" paper, but what students like writing papers? Creating a timeline with images would be much more engaging and fun for the students to share.
I will also be using Infographics a lot in my Careers class.  I've been pondering how to create an online or paper portfolio to keep career clusters organized. Students can create an infographic to share information with students and highlight key facts.

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I am really excited to use Mind Mapping in my classroom for students to brainstorm research topics. I am in an English setting, so I think this will really appeal to a lot of my kiddos.
I am also going to work on incorporating "Jigsaw" choices for students to have more control of how they create a project, so I am also excited to incorporate Infographic and Cartoon. I am excited to see all of the different imaginations at work as they are using these new-to-them applications.