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Become a Master Graphic Designer |
Listen and learn : Lecture
Kathy Schrock
Learn the principles of good graphic design. Then, utilizing Canva as the demonstration platform, see how to create useful and eye-catching graphics to enhance websites, units, Twitter feeds and parent communications. Explore student visual assessments, which have students designing creative projects.
| Audience: | Coaches, Library media specialists, Teachers |
| Skill level: | Beginner |
| Attendee devices: | Devices not needed |
| Participant accounts, software and other materials: | Not necessary for the session, but nice to have on their devices to work on after the session! Canva (online: create a free account) Canva iOS app: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/canva-photo-editor-design/id897446215 Canva Android app: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.canva.editor&hl=en_US |
| Topic: | Creativity & curation tools |
| Grade level: | 6-12 |
| ISTE Standards: | For Coaches: Content Knowledge and Professional Growth
Designer
Creative Communicator
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As a result of attending this session, participants will be able to recognize a good graphic design. By learning about balance, contrast, repetition, contrast, dominance, and hierarchy, they will come away with how best to use these methods to help students learn. In addition, by also including color research and looking at samples of well-designed graphics for classroom use, participants should feel confident about both implementing the principles and teaching them to students.
The sections of this session include Principles of Good Design, Common Mistakes, Designing for Your Classroom, and Visual Assessments for Students. Each of these 4 areas are approximately 15 minutes in length.
To engage the audience, after each section has been covered, they will be presented with a sample of a good or not-so-good graphic design and asked to discuss its properties with someone sitting near them for 1 minute. The item will be de-constructed at the end of that time.
Lynell Burmark: Visual literacy. Learn to see. See to learn. (ASCD, 2002)
Ellen Lupton: Graphic Design: The new basics. (Princeton Architectural Press, 2015)
Ellen Lupton: Design is storytelling. (Cooper Hewitt: Smithsonian Design Museum, 2017)
Kathy Schrock has been a school district Director of Technology, an instructional technology specialist, and a middle school, academic, museum, and public library librarian. She is currently an online adjunct graduate-level professor for Wilkes University (PA) and an independent educational technologist. She has been involved with technology to support teaching and learning since the early 1990's, and is an Adobe Education Leader, a Google Certified Innovator, an Amazon Teacher Innovator, an Apple Teacher 2016, an Alpha Squirrel, a ThingLink Certified Educator, a MakerBot Curriculum Creator, and a Discovery Education Guru. URL: http://kathyschrock.net Twitter:@kathyschrock
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