<div>Nice summary of the data - thanks Jackson. Wonder if there is an Australian version? Certainly identity theft is an important thing for students to understand.</div>
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<div>The flurry of infographics over the past year or so must have involved a new batch of designers. That one (and many others) has unexpected design elements - multiple typefaces for no obvious reason, multiple combinations of text shading effects, different line styles, most text in all capitals. You wouldn't find this mix in most other design work. In some ways it reminds me of the nightmare documents produced by people when they got their very first desktop publishing or presentation software :-)</div>
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<div>Some infographic designers also seem unable to process basic arithmetic. This one <a href="http://www.skitzone.com/2011/the-shocking-numbers-behind-cell-phone-usage-infographic/">http://www.skitzone.com/2011/the-shocking-numbers-behind-cell-phone-usage-infographic/</a> claims there are 200,000,000,000,000 text messages received in the US every day. Do the maths - it's utter rubbish. But it's been quoted by people who should know better (despite it being from <a href="http://skitzone.com">skitzone.com</a>)</div>
<div><br>Cheers, ken<br></div>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 4:02 PM, Jackson Bates <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bates.j@wcc.vic.edu.au">bates.j@wcc.vic.edu.au</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<p>Happy new term everybody!</p>
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<p>The new term fairy left this under my pillow:</p>
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<p><a href="http://mashable.com/2011/01/29/identity-theft-infographic/" target="_blank">http://mashable.com/2011/01/29/identity-theft-infographic/</a></p>
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<p>Good luck kicking off your new study designs.</p>
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<p>Jackson Bates</p>
<p>VCE IT Apps, English and Co-ordinator of Learning Technologies (Exciting new role...lah-dee-dah!)</p>
<p>Waverley Christian College</p></div><br>
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