Visual.ly is a tool for creating infographics online, though creating infographics requires a paid account. While exploring and viewing already created infographics is easy, the authors had difficulty actually creating an infographic themselves. The tool allows for account creation but subsequent steps to design an infographic were not straightforward for the authors to figure out.

1. Visual.ly
By Felip and Núria

2. What is Visual.ly?
• It’s a tool to create infographics online.
Infographics are images created to explain a
particular idea or dataset.

3. How easy is it to use?
• It’s very easy to explore and find already
created infographics, but we haven’t
succeeded in creating one.
• Apparently, you have to pay if you want to
create something, although they publish it as
a free tool.

4. Does it need an account?
• Yes
• The account is very easy to create. But it’s the
only step that is easy.

5. Can you create privately or publicly?
• We haven’t reached that far. We don’t know.

6. Good points?
• The graphics are very nice

7. Bad points?
• Too complicated

8. What age /level?
• Any. You can find from very simple, visual
graphics to more elaborated ones.

9. It could be used for:
• Introducing a vocabulary topic