The Principles and Techniques of Design using Online Creation Tools, Platforms, and Applications

The Principles and Techniques of Design using Online Creation Tools, Platforms, and Applications

1. THE PRINCIPLES AND TECHNIQUES OF DESIGN USING ONLINE CREATION TOOLS, PLATFORMS, AND APPLICATIONS TO DEVELOP ICT CONTENT FOR SPECIFIC PROFESSIONAL TRACKS

2. Online creation tools and platforms exist for users to utilize in order to create content that correspond to professional tracks such as academics, sports, arts and design, technical vocational Website – a common example of an output from using these online creation tools Edutopia – a US-based comprehensive website and online community that increases knowledge, sharing, and adoption of what works in k-12 education

3. ONLINE TOOLS, REFERENCES AND RESOURCES

4. Thinkfinity is a free online professional learning community, providing access to over 60,000 educators and experts in curriculum enhancement, along with thousands of award-winning digital resources for K-12 — aligned to state standards and the common core. Verizon – is a global leader delivering innovative communications and technology solutions that improve the way our costumer’s live, work and play Thinkfinity : www.thinkfinity.org

5. National Geographic Xpeditions : www.nationalgeographicexpeditions.com The travel program of the National Geographic Society Launched in 1999 Operates hundreds of trips each year, spanning all seven continents and more than 60 destinations

6. Culture Grams: www.culturegrams.com Launched in 1974 Has become one of the most trusted and widely used cultural reference products in the education, government, and non profit arenas Culture Grams content is available in the Culture Grams Online Database and as PDF download of individual reports.

7. Founded in 1956 The leading educational organization dedeicated to promoting mutual understanding and strengthening partnerships among peoples, leaders and institutions of Asia and the United States in a global context Asia Society: www. asiasociety.org

8. The Purdue University Writing Lab and Purdue Online Writing Lab (OWL) assist clients in their development as writers—no matter what their skill level—with on-campus consultations, online participation, and community engagement. The Purdue Writing Lab serves the Purdue, West Lafayette, campus and coordinates with local literacy initiatives. The Purdue OWL offers global support through online reference materials and services. Purdue Online Writing Lab: owl.english.purdue.edu

9. TED: www.ted.com Began in 1984 as a conference were technology, entertainment and Design converged, and today covers almost all topics from science to business to global issues – in more than 100 languages Is a nonprofit devoted to spreading ideas, usually in the form of short, powerful talks (18 minutes or less)

10. Started in 1996 Provides links to teacher resources on the internet Free to use since 2005 Teacher Corner: www.theteacherscorner.net

11. Show what you know through a presentation, infographic, document or videos. Visual formats help you stand out and resonate more with your readers. When you upload to SlideShare , you reach an audience that’s interested in your content – over 80% of SlideShare’s 70 million right audience and cultivate more professional authorities SlideShare : www.slideshare.net

12. Free Rice-Vocabulary Site: www.freerice.com Is a non-profit website that is owned by and supports the United Nations World Food Programme Has two goals; provide education to everyone for free, help end world hunger by providing rice to hungry people for free This is made possibly by the generosity of the sponsors who advertise on this site

13. Free Poverty-Geography Site: www.freepoverty.com GreaterGood began in 1999 Provides support for worthy causes through easy, online actions including a free, fast ‘click’, shopping, and through the gifts that give more online donation program GreaterGood has contributed more than 40 million dollars to charities around the world

14. Annenberg Learner: www.learner.org Mission is to “Advance Excellent Teaching in American Schools” Pursued for more than three decades by funding and distributing multimedia resources for teachers (K-12 and college levels) to teach their subject and to stay up-to-date in their fields Focuses on teacher as a learner, as well as the student as a learner

15. International Reading Association: ww.readwritethink.org Provies educators, parents, and after school professionals with access to the highest quality practices in reading and language arts instruction by offering the very best in free materials

16. THE NATURE AND PURPOSES OF ONLINE PLATFORMS AND APPLICATIONS

17. 8 EFFECTIVE WEB DESIGN PRINCIPLES YOU SHOULD KNOW

18. #1: Visual Hierarchy It’s the order in which the human eye perceives what it sees

19. Please rank the circles in the order of importance:

20. #2: Divine Proportions Using golden ratio which is a magical number to make all things proportioned to it aesthetically pleasing

21. #3: Hick’s Law states that with every additional choice increases the time required to take a decision

22. #4: Fitt’s Law Fitt’s law  stipulates that the time required to move to a target area (e.g. click a button) is a function of the distance to the target and the size of the target. In other words, the bigger an object and the closer it is to us, the easier it is to use it.

23. #5: Rule of Thirds The best images follow the  rule of thirds : an image should be imagined as divided into nine equal parts by two equally-spaced horizontal lines and two equally-spaced vertical lines, and that important compositional elements should be placed along these lines or their intersections.

24. #6: Gestalt Design Laws Its principle is that the human eye sees objects in their entirety before perceiving their individual parts.

25. 1.  Law of Proximity  People group things together that are close together in space. They become a single perceived object. With effective web design, you need to make sure things that do NOT go together, are not perceived as one. Similarly, you want to group certain design elements together (navigation menu, footer etc ) to communicate that they form a whole.

26. 2. Law of Similarity We group similar things together. This similarity can occur in the form of shape, colour , shading or other qualities.

27. 3. Law of Closure We seek completeness. With shapes that aren’t closed, when parts of a whole picture are missing, our perception fills in the visual gap. We see two squares overlaid on four circles even though none of these shapes actually exist in the graphic.

28. 4. Law of Symmetry The mind perceives objects as being symmetrical and forming around a center point. It is perceptually pleasing to be able to divide objects into an even number of symmetrical parts.

29. 5. Law of Common Fate We tend to perceive objects as lines that move along a path. We group together of objects that have the same trend of motion and are therefore on the same path.

30. #7: White space and clean design White space (also called ‘negative space’) is the portion of a page left “empty”. It’s the space between graphics, margins, gutters, space between columns, space between lines of type or visuals. It should not be considered merely ‘blank’ space — it is an important element of design. It enables the objects in it to exist at all. White space is all about the use of hierarchy. The hierarchy of information, be it type, colour or images.

31. #8: Occam’s Razor Occam’s razor  is a principle urging one to select among competing hypotheses that which makes the fewest assumptions and thereby offers the simplest explanation of the effect. To put it in the design context, Occam’s Razor states that the simplest solution is usually best.