Summary Using colour consistently to develop your style and enhance your design. Ensuring accessible use of colour and contrast. Colour For most of us, colour can have different psychological associations; these can be dependent on context, culture and personal experiences. For example, the colour red can denote anger, pain, danger or conversely could symbolise love,…Continue Reading 4: Colour and Contrast
5: Fonts and Typefaces
Summary The importance of fonts – how they help and hinder your content. Fonts and readability/accessibility. Fonts and Typefaces Every day we are confronted with a variety of typefaces and lettering styles, whether it be public information on a noticeboard, an infographic while scrolling on your phone, or a chapter in a textbook. As a…Continue Reading 5: Fonts and Typefaces
6: Design Principles in Context
Summary Taking a look at some examples of different types of media. Useful resources and software for creating your content. Infographics An infographic can be described as a visual representation of information or data. This may be in the form of an infographic poster or an image within a presentation, for example. Infographics can work…Continue Reading 6: Design Principles in Context
7: Conclusion
Final Steps Steppingstones – Day 7: Final Steps At this point you may have a draft piece of content, a finished design or you may still want to refine your ideas. Once you have a solid design plan or a first draft you can review what you have created to avoid any mishaps later. Often…Continue Reading 7: Conclusion
Welcome to Create your Module
In this series, we’ll extend some of what we have looked at in Blend your Module, and also spend some time examining Dundee’s Exemplary Module Framework, so that you can best present the content to the students….Continue Reading Welcome to Create your Module
1: What can the Module Template do for you?
What’s actually in the Exemplary Module Framework? How can it help us structure our modules to be effective and efficient for both staff and students. …Continue Reading 1: What can the Module Template do for you?
2: Communication
Very few of us learn effectively without communicating with others – whether they’re experts, peers or critical friends. To support our students, we’ll be looking at ways of supporting effective communication and Interaction….Continue Reading 2: Communication
3: Assessment
We’ll be looking today at both formative assessment or, as it’s also called, assessment for learning, and summative assessment….Continue Reading 3: Assessment
4: Teaching Materials and Resources
For many staff, a significant part of the preparation for teaching is preparing content – whether that’s pre-recorded videos, resource lists compiled primarily from library material, material staff have created themselves or OER content that’s relevant. We’ll try to find some pointers to help ease this process, while ensuring the content is engaging….Continue Reading 4: Teaching Materials and Resources
5: Active and Social Learning
Humans are innately social, most people need others to share ideas with, to learn from, and to generally engage with while learning….Continue Reading 5: Active and Social Learning
