How to Print Posters Using a Standard Printer:
I often run across infographics that could be great posters to hang in a classroom if only there was an easy way to print them poster-sized. Most teachers don't have ready access to printers that can handle poster-sized paper, but do have access to standard letter-size printers. Thanks to a recent blog post by
Joyce Valenza I have discovered a way that you can print posters using a standard inkjet or laser printer.
Block Posters is a web-based tool to which you can upload a high quality graphic then divide it into letter-sized chunks for printing. Print out each section and put them together on a poster board to make your own poster.
Applications for Education
If you find a great infographic like
this one about our solar system that you want to display in your classroom,
Block Posters could be a great tool for you to use. Want to create a giant jigsaw puzzle? Block Posters could be useful for that. Or if you have students create their own infographics that they want to display, print them out with Block Posters. Speaking of creating infographics, click
here and
here to learn about a couple of tools for creating infographics.
VISUAL.LY
http://visual.ly
Visual.ly is a infographics Hub with the Tools to create your own. New service Visual.ly features over 2000 infographics on a range of topics from economics to history. The site also has tools to help people interested in creating their own infographics get started, build them, and share them with a community of fans and companies like CNN, National Geographic, and more.
