Agenda Welcome Back Learning Environment project guidelines Teacher & Learners Design Basics

Learning Environment Due Monday Investigate schools and standards Review your teaching philosophy Grading Rubric review

Digital lives: What do we know? Information Age Image-based society Digital Natives (Prensky, 2001) Role of technology in education Produce Products Motivate students Improve learning

Students in K-12 Schools Today… from David Sousa & Bernice McCarthy, % are visual learners 33% are kinesthetic, tactile learners 19% are auditory learners Teachers in Schools... 50% of high school TEACHERS are auditory preferred learners Teachers tend to teach in the way they prefer to learn. Teachers tend to teach in the way they prefer to learn.

Questions for you to consider What do these differences in teachers and learners tell us about ourselves and our students? How do products produced digitally aid or detract from your perceptions about them? What do you already know about digital publishing?

Digital Publishing Benefits Professional looking products AccessibleAffordableExperimentation Drawbacks Garbage in Garbage out Nice looking garbage... Narrow focus

Focus on text... Tips for using typefaces, fonts, and styles Serif - Readability (Paragraphs) San Serif - Legibility (Headings) COLOR - contrast & emphasis Colors should contrast with background Red & Yellow are read first and remembered ALL CAPS vs. lowercase

Focus on Graphics: Create, Capture, Manipulate Scanners * Digital Cameras * World Wide Web (WWW) * Clip Art Collections (CD, WWW) * Video Capture Software Screen Capture Create you own (paint/draw program) Pod casts *

What else can we do? Integration and positioning of text and graphics.AwarenessApplication Control Design Elements for Effective Communication. Look at Examples for ideas

4 Basic design principles: (The Non-designers Design Book, 1994) P roximity A lignment R epetition C ontrast Note: All are interconnected. One is rarely used in isolation.

Group related items together Physically closer to one another Viewed as a cohesive group Instant visual clue organizationcontent

creates organization...

Placement should not be arbitrary Items should have visual connections “Invisible lines” of alignment Add strength Add cohesion Rule of Thirds

Repeat some aspects of the design throughout the entire piece. Font rule (line) BulletsColor design element format

Use contrast wisely To differentiate items Contrast colors Contrast Size Make elements Really Different to stand out.

PARC Principles Proximity - group related items together; cohesive group rather than isolated bits Alignment - “invisible lines” of alignment create a stronger cohesive unit; visual connection between items on the page Repetition - repeat some aspects of the design throughout the entire piece Contrast - if two items are not the same, then make them different

Next Time Meaningful Learning (Ch.2) Meaningful Learning (Ch.2) Bring in an Desktop Publishing example Work on your Desktop Publishing Assignment Reminders ✴ Review Learning environment and Desktop publishing criteria in course pack and grading rubric. ✴ Focus of DTP should convey the themes of your learning environment.