Education

For courses in Instructional Message Design, Instructional Materials Development, Teaching Materials and Methods. This course should follow Instructional Message Design, and Visual Design/Visual Literacy

It's all here! Everything teachers and instructional designers need to know to produce effective, efficient, and appealing visuals for classrooms and training/performance settings—including web-based training and distance learning. This text explains the process of graphic design, exploring not only the rules that apply to designing graphics, but also the thinking, experimenting, and evaluating that goes into a good design. Blending information from such diverse sources as instructional design and architecture, graphic arts and ergonomics, the author provides a wealth of examples, exercises, and hands-on activities that reinforce content. Underlying everything is information processing theory and an emphasis on the importance of designing visuals that not only appeal to the eyes, but also support cognitive processes by helping learners select the most important information, organize that information, and integrate it into memory.

• Example/non-example strategy—Used to teach concepts. Requires students to solve a problem and compare their solution to that of others.

  • Provides practice in solving problems visually—the exact thing the text is teaching.

• Thoroughly up-to-date material—Uses the latest techniques, tools, and technologies.

  • Helps students translate their own “mind picture” of what they want to teach into a visual that is not only appealing, but also really works in today's classrooms and corporate settings with today's tools or websites.

• Plethora of visual examples and activities—Three or more visual problems per chapter.

  • Allows students to test their knowledge often throughout the coverage; enhances skills through hands-on practice.

• Use of four characters' experiences—Community college teacher/technical writer, K-12 teacher, instructional designer, graphic designer/programmer. Illustrates integration of text principles across many disciplines.

  • Encourages students to see graphic design as it appears all around them; enhances its worth in students' eyes.

• Conceptual framework based on Tools, Actions, and Perceptions (TAP)—Explores the theory behind graphic design as well as its techniques.

  • Exposes students to the “why” as well as the “how”; helps build a firmer foundation in theory than other texts, and a stronger base for future exploration and students' own creations.

• Lists of essential resources for creating graphic designs—Websites for clip art, relevant books and magazines, and more.

  • Enable students to engage in additional research and study on their own.

• Applicable to distance learning and web-based training.

  • Helps students design the visual cues needed when “live” teachers are not present.

• Accompanying Website—Presents work of other students and professionals for critique and comparison.

  • Bolsters students' understanding of their competence in text material.

I. INTRODUCTION.

II. SHAPING INSTRUCTION TO FACILITATE LEARNING.

III. PUTTING IT ALL TOGETHER.

Message Design  (Instructional Technology)
Instructional Media and Technology  (Instructional Technology)
Visual Design/Visual Literacy  (Instructional Technology)

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  Creating Graphics for Learning and Performance: Lessons in Visual Literacy, 2/E
  Lohr
  ©2008 | Allyn & Bacon | Paper; 336 pp | Instock
  ISBN-10: 013219158X | ISBN-13: 9780132191586
  Brief Description | Buy from myPearsonStore

  

  Creating Graphics for Learning and Performance: Lessons in Visual Literacy will help you create effective visuals–visuals that are clear, communicate well, and help you learn and perform your job more effectively and efficiently. With this book you will learn about three of the most intuitive design principles that you can begin applying to your work immediately: selection, organization and integration.  These principles are learned gradually as you explore the tools of type, shape, color, depth and space.  In addition, a resource chapter provides you with a quick guide to the tools of graphic design including hardware, software, books and web resources

   

  Whether you are a teacher, business professional, graphic designer, artist, instructional designer, or software developer this book of essential design foundations is the one for you.                  

For the Instructional Technology Discipline

Allyn & Bacon Digital Media Archive CD-ROM for Special Education, 2001
Allyn & Bacon
©2001 | Allyn & Bacon | CD-ROM Only | Out of Stock
ISBN-10: 0205318495 | ISBN-13: 9780205318490

CourseCompass (5.0) Instructor Quick Start Guide
Allyn & Bacon & Longman
©2007 | Allyn & Bacon | Paper | Instock
ISBN-10: 0205531709 | ISBN-13: 9780205531707

Research Navigator Guide for Special Education (Valuepack item only)
Smith & Barr
©2004 | Allyn & Bacon | Paper; 128 pp | Instock
ISBN-10: 0205408265 | ISBN-13: 9780205408269
URL:  http://www.researchnavigator.com

Responding to Hate at School: A Guide for Teachers, Counselors, and Administrators
Southern Poverty Law Center
©2001 | Allyn & Bacon | Paper | Instock
ISBN-10: 0130284580 | ISBN-13: 9780130284587

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