Learning about LGBT young people Using software to create posters

Lesson Aims To present information to highlight what different young people feel about being LGBT as part of LGBT history month. Learning how to re-size, crop, rotate and manipulate images.

Starter Look at the posters below and think about what techniques have been used to get the key messages across.

Watch the videos and answer the questions for each person Hamzer’s story Jennifer’s story Anna’s story

You will be using these images to create a poster of your choice from.

Watch the Demonstration Accessing the document with the images Cropping Resizing Rotating images including speech bubbles Inserting colour

Create your own poster Copy one of the images from the shared area to create a poster of your choice. Use the answers to the questions to help you decide what to write in the speech bubble – remember it needs to be a key message from one of the LGBT people. Use colour, cropping and any other techniques to make your poster look like the examples shown at the start of the lesson.

Plenary Look at the posters What is positive about the examples you are seeing? What have you learnt about ICT? What have you learnt about the experience of some LGBT people?