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Course 3 Week 3:See What I Mean?

9/29/2020

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This was a very timely assignment for me. Our How We Express Ourselves unit has a focus on the concepts of audience and purpose. The first three weeks will focus on speaking and listening, and then later in the year we will return to the unit with a focus on visual language.

I decided to make two infographics for my students to assist them in this unit. One using an acronym we already decided on as a year group for speaking (PVLEGS), and another one for listening (SOLER). The lists on the right so far come from the websites descriptors, but I will be speaking with my class about what we can put there instead, and create a new version to use with them.

Last year we co-created a speaking and listening rubric with them, but we have a slightly different focus this year, and I feel like this activity will be a good way to tie in that golden opportunity of co-creation with them.

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I used Apple's Pages to create both infographics. Their library of shapes was large enough for me to choose from. I tried using a few of the other suggested websites at first but felt like Pages would be an easier stepping stone for me, as well as providing more freedom in icons to use for free.

In the future, my students will be creating their own infographics using Pages, as I already have outlined in a previous COETAIL blog post here. I really love the simplicity and creativity that it provides. 

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I have an update already! My team had a meeting today about moving this unit forward. We decided that I will create a version of the PVLEGS infographic with the right hand side blank. This will then be used as a graphic organizer for when they are watching different types of verbal communication. They will fill in notes on the right hand side each time they watch something new next week, to get an idea of how people are communicating their ideas. This will be done alongside a graphic organizer that we are already using about audience, as well as a PIE one for purpose (Persuade, Inform, Entertain).
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Luiz link
10/3/2020 04:04:10 am

Sometime about Apple Pages that just keeps you coming back! Hard to beat its ease-of-use. Almost every design-minded teacher I know won't switch for anything else!

Check out flaticon.com for a huge bank of free or attribution icons.

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Luis Carlos Moreno link
11/1/2020 05:26:33 am

Hey Cindy,

I have never used Pages before as I am not an Apple user, but I really like the infographic outcome you made with it. I like the combination of alternating colors you picked to distinguish between rows, using either lighter/stronger tones of the same color or a combination of two colors that go well together. ´

When designing, sometimes we get excited and add more than needed, you kept it simple by sticking to a color palette, a maximum of two different typographies and only black icons. I totally agree that this will make an awesome graphic organizer for your students, both digitally and printed.

Thanks for sharing!

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