The most recent lesson for the class was learning about the sides of the Civil War, their positions and their strategies. The essential question was: How did the differences between the North and South affect each region's strategy and success in the Civil War? The information we got was analyzed and placed into an infographic, using sites and apps like Infogram, Piktochart, and Canva.
I didn't have much of a hard time choosing information to put in the graphic; I put in anything that I thought was interesting, useful, and relevant to the topic, and also was easily represented in the form of a chart or something similar. My two harder choices were on what application I wanted to use. I tested all three choices. Canva is nice, but not really suitable for a vertical infographic like what we needed. Piktochart and Infogram are roughly level, but I ended up choosing Piktochart mostly because I liked its map feature better (which I used in the infographic a lot). My second difficulty was presenting the information in an aesthetically pleasing way. I had a lot of problems with silly things like color palettes- I used blue for the Union and gray for the Confederacy, but it mostly made a dull color palette, and I had problems making it look more exciting. Overall, though, I found the project really cool, and if I need to do a digital project with anything of this sort, I will probably resort to one of these three applications (Canva looks incredibly versatile).
The information presented gives clear insight as to the situations that each side faced at the start of the war. It's fairly obvious that the North has most of the advantages, having more people and resources to work with, but the South also has a few contextual advantages, like being the defensive side of the war and supplying a lot of the world's cotton.
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