Creating+Visuals

Color and Graphics
**//Review these sites on creating visual contrast and consistency//** [|Effective color Contrast] www.lighthouse.org/accessibility/effective-color-contrast/ [|Graphic Design Principles:] www.math.duke.edu/education/ccp/resources/write/design/graphic1.html (composition, color, type, graphics)

__Complete the tutorial on color__ - //**if this topic is new to you**// [|Color Contrast and Dimension:] an interactive online color guide that explains theory www.poynterextra.org/cp/index.html

//**For more information on designing web pages and graphics see also:**// Web Design and Development Unit 4: Graphics -- [|Purpose of Web Graphics] www.washington.edu/accessit/webdesign/student/unit4/module1/Guidelines_for_web_graphics.htm __[|Typography] webstyleguide.com/wsg3/8-typography/index.html [|Graphics] webstyleguide.com/wsg3/11-graphics/index.html [|Visuals and Page Design:] webstyleguide.com/wsg3/7-page-design/3-visual-design.html__

Karen on Creating a Color Scheme: karen68766.wikispaces.com/Instruction Colin on Image Types colinmgray.wikispaces.com/Instruction
 * Two other Powerpoint Shows to review - Learn from your colleagues**

Visual Literacy
 As we create more electronic documents we need to be sure that our students are visually literate. This means that they have the ability to interpret, negotiate, and make meaning from information presented in the form of an image. Visual literacy is based on the idea that pictures can be “read” and that meaning can be communicated through a process of reading (Wikipedia). Understanding visual literacy means that we can create more accessible graphics, images and documents. For more information on Visual Literacy see: [|Visual literacy Activities] www.museumca.org/picturethis/visual.html [|Visual Literacy K-8] www.k-8visual.info/ [|Online Visual Literacy Project] www.pomona.edu/academics/courserelated/classprojects/visual-lit/intro/intro.html [|Visual Literacy eLearning Tutorial] www.visual-literacy.org/

Now what have you learned:
 This wiki page is for you to be creative to display and discuss what you have learned about creating documents, graphics and visuals. Discuss ideas you want to incorporate into future work and how graphic design might also affect learner achievement. Be creative here,consider how visuals help to bring in that non linguistic representation of your ideas?

Some ideas: display a before and after product that you have created (newsletter, poster, etc). Develop a new logo for your wiki page or new buttons for the menu.

(Due Nov 5)