Cameras in the classroom

I would also like to apologize for this being late. This week has been crazy busy and odd with the snow days, but here is my main post! 

At the link http://www.nypress.com/local-news/20150304/cameras-in-the-classroom it talks about elementary year old students getting the opportunity to use a more visual means of communicating by introducing them to filmmaking. I find it interesting that we hear about a lot of schools taking away art and music classes and yet this school is doing just the opposite, which is amazing. 

The article states that, “Traditionally school is very academic, and a lot of them don’t always get a chance to show their strengths. I saw different students shine.”

I find it so cool that every student has a different strength and so when I'm a teacher I would love to incorporate many means for a student to communicate and broadcast his/her strength. 

It also says, “Giving kids a visual medium, one they’re already so familiar and adept with, we’re saying this is valid, too.” Not all students learn the same way and so giving them multiple opportunities and chances to express themselves make everyone on a more equal playing field. 

Leisha's Main Post

First of all, I apologize for the tardiness of this post.  I wrote in my agenda that it was due on Friday, not Wednesday.  I think the snow is making me lose my mind. 

I was looking at a Loudoun County Public school website the other day to figure out where I was supposed to Sub.  On the front slideshow there was this image, followed by the caption, "Students complete Digital Literacy and Responsibility Course." 

Looking deeper, I found that this is a program designed for 6th-9th graders to teach them all sorts of things about Technology.  This video shows some of the different challenges students complete with the program called Ignition.  The whole program is a series of videos, modules and simulations where students have the ability to process information.  The program covers many topics, including Multimedia Presentations.  Students are also tasked with designing and launching a media campaign to bring a band to their school.  They have to design a successful social media campaign and supplement it with visuals, such as posters.  I thought this was SUCH a cool program that not only introduces students to good and safe internet and technology practices, but also exposes them to 21st Century careers where they use technology and visuals to spread messages.  I think introducing this sort of thing at the middle school level will create a community of students who are prepared to use media, technology, and visuals to spread information. 

Your Tuesday Funny

There was a great article on "pun heavy graphic design posters" on Adweek recently.  I thought maybe they would give some of you a good chuckle, too.  :)  Here is the link to the full article with all the posters:  http://goo.gl/9LF0iX

Amanda Loeser's Final

Want to apologize for not putting this on the blog earlier. I only submitted it via canvas, but here it is! I wanted to teach my audience about how a tour could be used in schools! Let me know what you think:)

Mariya's Final Poster

Here are three different versions of my poster. The company that I was working with asked for me to design each one for a different purpose. There was an initial poster, one to use as a handout, and was to use for a magnet or something that was able to stand alone without being super large in size. I tried to make some minor changes based on the feedback that was provided to me. 

Sorry for being so late on this posting. I had some technical difficulties yesterday while I was trying to post it!

Christy's Poster--Final Version

I didn't change all that much between the draft and final version of this poster. I took the advice from peers to increase the text size. I also changed the font of the text in the body of the poster. I kept with Frank Reuhl for the headline, because it needed to match the font I had used in the logo. I had used Times New Roman for the rest of the text, but I changed it to a sans serif font for legibility.

I debated about adding the name of each cohort (pictured on the map), but I eventually decided against it. There is already a lot of information on the page, and I think the map sufficiently communicates the cohort information. I figured that anyone who lives and works in VA would be able to tell if their home is near one of the cohort regions circled.

Katie's Final Poster

Jen's Final Poster

Ok, I tried to create some more white space around my subheadings, as some people mentioned.  But, it was hard to get a lot and keep the overall size of the poster the same.  Hopefully it's enough!  I also made sure that all of the subheadings were centered.

Amanda Leech Poster Final

I had a lot of great feedback from my draft that I incorporated in to my final poster design. First, I did not have any kind of action item for students to take with them, so I added the website at the bottom. Also, I added numbers to draw the eye down to the action items. Lastly, I moved the photo around and ended up really liking the way it looked bleeding off the page- it made the whole thing come together a lot  nicer.

RET's Final Poster

My final poster contains some minor edits.  Several stars were added and several were removed.  I also adjusted the contrast of the image a little and brightened the margin.  Here is the final poster:

Kara's Final Poster

I did end up revising my poster a bit more, and in doing so, I added more pictures. I felt that showing pictures of the process with all of the ingredients helped make the poster more cohesive, so I did that. Speaking of pictures, I think that that was my favorite part of designing this poster. I actually enjoyed taking the pictures and using the magnetic lasso to get rid of the background. It was somewhat time consuming, but I was very pleased with the outcome/appearance. I also wanted to play around more with the font, so I used two and like how they contrast with each other. I also tried to align almost everything the left like people suggested, however, the "Kara's Guac-amazing Recipe" was running into the "Y"'s tail of "Holy" so I aligned it to the right a little bit. I tried to align it to the left while also using enough space between the "Holy Guacamole" and "Kara's Guac-amazing Recipe," but it didn't look good to me. There was too much space between them.

I did keep everyone's suggestion of using the lighter background, except I found a similar color on canva, screenshotted it, "eye dropped" it in Photoshop, and used it in my background. I'm very happy with my final product.

Erin's final poster

I  used Canva to create my classroom rules poster.

Jordan's Final Instructional Poster

After fighting with myself on a layout, I finally chose one I thought was interesting and made sense, using a wave as the center to kind of guide the reader through the image.  I created this for one of the vocalists at my church to use for vocal harmony training.

Leah's FINAL poster!

Thanks to some challenge from Kara-I found a way to format it like I originally hoped to! I hope everyone likes!

Leisha's Final Poster

I tried to use some of the critique Amanda gave with using two colors of text to highlight information and using the "Summer of a Lifetime" piece with the green layout.  I also tried to stick with more images and less text because I think the pictures will create more intrigue than text would.  I also added the Facebook and Twitter icons so that the audience might investigate further through social media.