Presented by Kim Cofino at:
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The EARCOS Teacher’s Conference, Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia, March 2011
Overview
You might not realize it, but you’re a graphic designer – and so are your students. Finding, arranging and citing unique media to successfully communicate a message is increasingly crucial in today’s digital world. Learn how to share creative commons media, engage audiences with “Presentation Zen” techniques, and empower students to become responsible digital creators.
Presentation
Resources
- Less is More: Making Your Presentations Zen-tastic! by Kim Cofino
- The Power of the Visual by Garr Reynolds
- From Design to Meaning: A Whole New Way of Presenting? by Garr Reynolds
- What is Good PowerPoint Design by Garr Reynolds
- Brain Rules: Vision
- 50+ Ways to Tell a Story by Alan Levine (CogDogBlog)
- Towards a Framework for Digital Literacy Learning by David Jakes
- Visual Literacy in the Classroom by Erin Riesland
- Visual Literacy by Frank W. Baker
- Becoming Screen Literate (NYTimes) by Kevin Kelly
- Deconstructing Media Messages by Jamie MacKenzie
- Search Creative Commons
- Search Creative Commons by color
- Flickr CC – another Flickr search engine
- CompFight – another Flickr search engine
- Search by Color: Multicolor Search Lab
- Great Quotes About Learning and Change Flickr pool
- Thinking About Disasters – a great example of using images to promote discussion, in this case, about Japan
- Redkid Sign Generator – Add custom text to stock images. From movie theatre marquees to alphabet soup.
- Visual Literacy from Terri Sallee – a great presentation about the same topic
- Attribution: Cite your Creative Commons images properly using this format
And of course, check out the original inspiration for this presentation:
- Presentation Zen by Garr Reynolds
- Presentation Zen Design by Garr Reynolds
- The Naked Presenter by Garr Reynolds
- Presentation Zen blog by Garr Reynolds
Videos Shown:
- Getty Images Scene from Brain Rules
- Stand-up Routine about PowerPoint
- Death by PowerPoint
- Team 2: Digital Bridges video from the Flat Classroom Workshop
Steps to create your own image:
Goal: Think of a quote, statement, phrase, idea from this conference that really resonated with you & create a simple graphic with words & a Creative Commons image.
1. Go to search.creativecommons.org
2. Check off the second box (modify, adapt, build upon)
3. Enter your search term
4. Click on Flickr
5. Click on “Interesting”
6. Find a picture you like and RIGHT CLICK on that image to open in a new tab
7. On the Flickr photo page, click on “Actions” and choose “All sizes”
8. Choose the medium image
9. RIGHT CLICK on your image to copy the image
10. Open your presentation software
11. Delete all of the text boxes
12. Paste your picture
13. Write your text/quote
14. Go back to your picture in Flickr, go back to the Photo Page and copy the URL
15. Paste the URL onto your slide
16. Save your slide as an images
16. If you have a flickr account, upload your new image to Flickr and tag it with #etc11