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To Read: Color matters! Read about color
To Watch: You are in the process of designing your teacher's website. It should be important for you to make conscious decisions about how you present the content of the pages.
What makes the page user-friendly?
What are the most common design mistakes made when creating websites?
To help you answer that, I created a short video about web design considerations:
To Watch: Visual Diagramming, Concept Mapping, Mind Mapping - these phrases apply to visually brainstorming or organizing ideas. This video explains the benefits of it:
Concept Maps for teaching and learning - it may be a useful tool, especially for older students, to represent knowledge of a topic, make connections between ideas
To use in the early elementary classroom (or with your kids): C.A.R.P. junior - Design Principles for kids - ideas for practicing them in an elementary classroom.
To challenge yourself: Look at these 25 of the most iconic photographs (according to CNN) - How many can you name just by looking at them?
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Additional optional resources:
ISTE Standards for Educators:
2.5c Educators explore and apply instructional design principles to create innovative digital learning environments that engage and support learning.
2.6d. Educators model and nurture creativity and creative expression to communicate ideas, knowledge or connections.
ISTE Standards for S
1.1b Students build networks and customize their learning environments in ways that support the learning process.
1.6c Students communicate complex ideas clearly and effectively by creating or using a variety of digital objects such as visualizations, models, or simulations.
- To browse: Free teaching resources from Visual Literacy today: https://visualliteracytoday.org/teaching-resources/
- To read: (elementary and middle grades): How to incorporate Visual Literacy in your classroom by using wordless texts to help students make observations in the illustrations while addressing six components of visual literacy: https://www.edutopia.org/article/how-incorporate-visual-literacy-your-instruction/
- To read (HS): Article about teaching Visual Literacy in high school English https://www.secondaryenglishcoffeeshop.com/2022/10/the-3-rs-reading-riting-and-rithmetic.html
- To interact: Play with colors professionally: Paletton.com- The color
scheme designer. - To read: How to Design For Color Blindness: https://www.getfeedback.com/resources/ux/how-to-design-for-color-blindness/
- To browse: Smithsonian Open Access: where you can download, share, and reuse millions of the Smithsonian’s images.
