Teaching 3D infographics

I'm sitting right now in my 3D infographics class, one of the courses that I teach this semester at UM's School of Communication (the others are about data visualization.) Students, who mainly come from our MA in Journalism and our MFA in Interactive Media, are working on their first project: Building an infographic similar to this one or this one about a topic that they care about. I asked them to send me screenshots of what they have so far: