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1: Getting Started

  • Author By Laura-Jane Logue and Eve Laws
  • Publication date 26th August 2021
  • Categories: Design your Content
  • Tags: Design Principles
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Contents

  • Determine your Topic
  • Design your Content – Welcome Poster
  • Activity

Determine your Topic

To get started you need to determine the topic that you are going to be working with during this series. You may already have a topic in mind, or you can choose one of the following options:

  1. Choose a topic that may be difficult to teach and use this guide to create brand new material on the subject.
  2. Revisit material you have already made and use this guide to check, improve or redesign your content.
  3. Choose our example (below) – ‘Design a welcome infographic/poster for your module’.

Design your Content – Welcome Poster

The poster below was created specifically for this Learning X series using a tool we all have access to – Microsoft PowerPoint. It introduces the topic, the instructors and dates using a simple graphic style. We will be using this as an example throughout to show you how the design principles can be applied at each stage. Can you design something similar to introduce your students to your module?

Design your Content Poster

Text Only Version (Word Doc)

Activity

Steppingstone – Day 1: Determine your Topic

Once you have determined your topic, think about the format of your content. Are you creating a video, a recorded lecture, a poster, an infographic or something else? If you are adapting a lecture for blended learning, can you split this into a series of shorter videos? At this point you can gather your research and any existing material you can use (e.g. photographs or diagrams). Feel free to introduce yourself and let us know what you have decided to work on in the comments below.

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