EmmaS_Infographics


 * My vision for this project is obviously to create a creative infographic that revolvesaround the Pewaukee High School success skills. I chose to do the project on the success skills at PHS because it was the topic I knew the most about. A lot of students at PHS __ hate __ the fact that you can be put in resource for having a single 2 for success skills. Although, I've never been put in resource for success skills I agree that putting a student with a 3.5 GPA in resource for success skills is a tad over-kill. (Now that I've stated my opinion on the matter for a school project that Mr. VanHulle will be assessing I might just be put in resource... kidding!) To begin with though, I want to include the basis of what success skills are so that anyone that views my infographic can tell what it is all about. Then, I want to include statistics that show the positive and negative effects of success skills grading on PHS students because this is an additional, seperate grading system put on all students report cards. Some students may find it beneficial for them personally to have to go to resource every morning, but others might disagree. Overall, I want my infographic to help other school districts decide if including success skills as part of their grading system would benefit their students or not.
 * I feel it is important to highlight statistics with the number of students that have astounding GPAs and are in resource solely for receiving a 2 on their success skills. I believe that resource should be assigned to students who are suffering in a class, not because they forgot to bring a pencil to class. In order to get other statistics on weather or not students truly feel that being put in resource was/is beneficial to them and other data like that I want to send out a SurveyMonkey link to the all PHS students. I want the data to be accurate and student voted, not based on my own, personal opinions.


 * The style of infographic I will use will include pie graphs with my personally found statistics. To my eye, pie graphs are more appealing than bar graphs since the data is together and not spaced out, it's easier to read and understand. Plus, with pie graphs you can do a lot more with the color scheme and typography without going overboard.
 * The color scheme I plan to use is the reference photo above. I want to use red, black, and dark gray because, red and black are pirate colors and I want to use white font which can easily be read on red, black, and dark gray backgrounds.




 * The font I plan to use is a familiar font used on the Pewaukee School District website so my infographic will be visually appealing to the Mr. VanHulle and Mrs. Bosanec who will be viewing it and giving me feedback on my creation. It looks to me that the font used on the Pewaukee School District website is arial, but I want to use rounded arial because, I like it better - personal preference.
 * My audience is other school districts who are trying to decide if they want to include success skills grading as an additional form of grading for the 2016-2017 school year. They need to first be informed of what success skill grading incorporates and what it adds or subtracts from a student's performance in school. In the end I am not trying to persuade other school districts to include the success skill grading. I'm just giving them the statistics and allowing for them to decide. Although personally I wouldn't recommend adding success skill grading because it can negatively affect a student's confidence and comfort in a class that they were put in resource for preforming poorly in.
 * I need to email Mr. VanHulle and let him know that I plan to include all the information on what success skills are and what 1, 2, 3, 4 grades mean. I want to include further data about the number of students in resource for success skills and the number of those students who are in resource think that it is beneficial.