As you know, you’ll be working on producing an infographic on either a local or global issue. The task sheet below (and marking key) have all the information you require to complete this task:
Task 3 – Public Service Infographic Assess sheet
In today’s lesson, you will conduct some individual research on some (or all) of the following institutions:
Try and find relevant websites for the following…
Australian Health posters
West Australian Health dept
WA Fire Dept
St John’s Ambulance
WA Surf lifesaving
WA Swimming
WA Mental Health
Safety in the home
Safety in the workplace
Domestic Violence
Child safety
In today’s lesson, I would like to research as many of these institutions as possible. You need to find posters and infographics on these websites and record your findings under the following headings:
- What is the purpose of the poster/infographic? What is it trying to achieve? What evidence is there in the text to support your answer? Is the text trying to warn the reader, to inform them, to support them? What is the tone of the text?
- Who is the intended audience? How can you tell? What evidence is there in the text to support your answer?
- How does the text use images to help the reader understand it? How do the images support the text?
- How does the text use words to help the reader understand what it is about? How do certain words help set the tone for the text?
You might want to use the table below to help you record your findings. You will need to cut and paste this into a Word document:
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Website:
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Text 2
Website:
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Text 3
Website:
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Text 4
Website:
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Remember that you need to find EVIDENCE from the text to support your responses. The learning objective here is for your research to deepen your understanding of how images and text combine to present information in a specific way, for a specific purpose and for a specific audience.