"Videocasts"
Today we experienced an epic struggle with dragontape.com, trying to create a video about American-German relations. You can check out the result by following this link:
http://www.dragontape.com/v/3173131-american_german_relationsweeblylink_new_window
Afterwards you can take a look at the worksheet we created for this video.
us-germanrelationsworksheet.docx | |
File Size: | 123 kb |
File Type: | docx |
"Comics!"
In today's session we were introduced to bitstrips.com and played around with it a little bit. You can check out our results below.
tenses.pdf | |
File Size: | 246 kb |
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"PowerPoint"
Our homework assignment was to use PowerPoint's SmartArt function in order to illustrate given sentences. I chose The Simpsons contain examples for four English dialects and British culture had a strong influence on India. The result can be downloaded below.
powerpoint.ppt | |
File Size: | 1467 kb |
File Type: | ppt |
"Structuring Teaching Material"
The second session of our Presenting Content course was supposed to give us an idea of how to structure teaching material. Prior to the session our task had been to bring a worksheet to class, so we could discuss and analyze its layout. It became clear that quite often students don't even know what the worksheets are about since they are completely missing headlines or clear visible task-assignments. Coherent font sizes, styles or headers and footers were also part of the discussion. Equipped with this knowledge we were then told to conduct a do-over of our worksheet and apply our new rigorous standards of layout excellence to it. Et voila: take a look at the image embedded in this text and you can see the result. This worksheet about the distinction between formal and informal style is quite simple. The task assignments and the two texts are clearly distinguished from it each other and follow each other in an order that makes sense in order to conduct the task. The shadows around the text boxes are meant to support the visual distinction between the given tasks. With our minds now turned to the basic elements of a layout we will now go on to talk about Design Basics, so that we won't only be able to tell what constitutes a good layout but also to carry it out into action.
fictional_worksheet.pdf | |
File Size: | 163 kb |
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"Glogster"
A couple of weeks ago we were supposed to create a poster concerning the 10 golden rules of Poster Design. A meta-task in itself, if you ask me. Today, however, it got even funkier as we were supposed to turn this meta-poster into a glogster-poster. By clicking on the screenshot below you can also check out Zoe Stellmacher's weebly-website with whom I've created most of these projects.