Helping Teachers Excel as Visual Communicators

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Location: La Nouvelle Ballroom, Table 19
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Danielle Cowden
In this session, we'll look at what style guides are and how they can be implemented to help teachers design course materials that increase student usability and, in turn, increase student understanding of content. We'll also discuss basic graphic design principles in this process.

Audience:	Coaches, Curriculum/district specialists, Teachers
Skill level:	Beginner
Attendee devices:	Devices not needed
Topic:	Curriculum planning & evaluation
Grade level:	PK-12
ISTE Standards:	For Coaches: Learning Designer Collaborate with educators to design accessible and active digital learning environments that accommodate learner variability. For Educators: Designer Use technology to create, adapt and personalize learning experiences that foster independent learning and accommodate learner differences and needs. For Students: Creative Communicator Students communicate complex ideas clearly and effectively by creating or using a variety of digital objects such as visualizations, models or simulations.

Proposal summary

Purpose & objective

The purpose of this session is to inform and educate on basic graphic design skills and why they're needed in course content creation. This knowledge can be applied to any subject and any grade level. The goal is for participants to recognize the role good design plays in content creation and leave equipped with resources to utilize at their campuses.

Outline

-Introduction, QR code for resource site
-What is good design? Explain why design matters and what happens when the message is lost because of poor design choices.
-What are style guides and how can they help teachers? Explain how simple tools can go a long way to help.
-Why teachers need to understand basic design concepts when developing course content.
-Wrap up and questions

Supporting research

"Comic Sans Or Common Sense? Graphic Design for Clinical Teachers." The clinical teacher (2021)Web.

Cornish, Katie, et al. "Visual Accessibility in Graphic Design: A Client–designer Communication Failure." Design Studies 40 (2015): 176-95. Web.

Giloi, Susan, and Dina Zoe Belluigi. "Underlying Knowledge-Knower Structures in Graphic Design: Contributing to Establishing a Cohesive Language for use in Graphic Design Education." Art, design & communication in higher education 16.1 (2017): 7-22. Web.

Hartson, Rex, and Pardha S. Pyla. The UX Book: Process and Guidelines for Ensuring a Quality User Experience. San Francisco: Elsevier Science & Technology, 2012. Web.

Williams, Robin. The Non-Designer's Design Book. 4th ed. Peachpit Press, 2014. Print.

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Presenters

Danielle Cowden, Crosstown High