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Short Course : http://www.freewebs.com/norazana/shortcourse.htm

just click last version : Storyboard for ' A Good Layout for Presentation' (CASPER)

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group member : Norhasimah Mohamed & Norazana Md Nor

Visual Graphic Layout Presentation

General Rules about Layout for presentation

1.         Don’t put anything important within 1/4 to 1/2 inch of the edge. It can be cut off when projected.

2.         Projected presentations look best with a black or dark background and reversed light text.

3.         Pastels and light gradients wash out when projected.

4.         Colors that do not look good on screen are greens, reds, really bright colors, and neon colors. Readability is critical, so make sure your background and text color contrast well. White and yellow text work well on a dark background.

5.         Choose your colors based on the equipment quality. Low light equipment works best with darker text and a lighter background. When using an LCD panel, very dark templates with light text work best.

Learn more about Visual Graphic Layout Presentation.

Additional Resources :

• A good presentation
• Principles of design
• Graphics Design Basics

What have you learned ? You can try to answer some questions here to test you understanding about the topic.

Idea for a short course

Proposal for a short course.

Title : Visual Graphic Layout Presentation

Target Audience:  age 15 – 19 years old with basic knowledge of  computer technology.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Learners should be able to state six important rules for a good layout visual graphic presentation.
2. Learners should be able to differentiate between good and bad presentation.
3. Learners should be able to apply their understanding about rules for a good layout visual presentation.   

New content for a short course

I am collaborating with my friend Shima Mohamed to design a short course. We have decided to teach young learners ( 15-19 years old ) about layout for visual graphic presesntation. We will provide some useful tips and guideline for a good presentation. We will make the course attractive to young learners by using Casper character as the main focus. Learners can easily remember the guidelines by remembering the word CASPER. This learning strategy is known as mnemonics. It is defined simply as some device which aids the memorisation of something. Mnemonic instruction refers to instructional or learning strategies designed specifically to improve memory. In many cases, it refers to modifying or changing to-be-learned information ( guideline for good visual graphic presentation ) to link it directly to information the learner already knows ( the character Casper ). 

Why do we choose this topic ?

At the school level. students are exposed to computer technology. However, being young and lack of exposure to the field, they tend to encounter difficulties to make a good presentation. In some cases, they are eager to apply all the knowledge and skills for presentation until they do not convey the important points.

What is our strategy ?

We will use easy-to-follow power point presentation. At the same time, we are incorporating soothing music in the presentation as we know that our target audience enjoys music very much. In addition to that;  graphics, colors and different types of fonts will be using to highlights the points.  After the learning experience, learners can assess their understanding about the content through short answer questions.

Target Audience : form 4 student (16 years old)

this topic is about overview of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) and at the end of thiss lesson student should be able to define ICT and able to describe the brief evolution of computers.

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Field Trip : Distance Learning USM

Date : 02 Mac 2007

Comment, reflect, post question, provide answer to field trip report

USM Field Trip Program

1. School Of Distance Education
2. Centre for Instructional Technology & Multimedia

My field trip report based on :-

1. Language. Organization of ideas

2. Purpose and objective of field trip

3. Description of site (Observation)

4. Identify issues in the organization

5. Able to make recommendation

Introduction

2 Mac 2007, one trip to USM was conducted for students who take the pxgt6308 course. This trip is for completed the PXGT 6308 course. This field trip provides us the real experience about School of Distance Learning at USM.  The Distance Education Program at USM, was established in 1971 to provide opportunities for working adults to obtain tertiary education. Through innovative education approaches, working adults are able to undertake undergraduate courses while remaining in full-time employment. Besides the undergraduate programme, the school of Distance Education also offers postgraduate programme by research, namely the Master of Arts, Master of Social Science, Master of Science and Doctor of Philosophy. The postgraduate programmes are offered either full-time or part-time and candidates are required to undertake a research project under the supervision of the academic staff. the award of the degrees is based on the examination of a thesis submitted at the end of the research component.

Purpose and Objectives of the Field Trip

The objectives of a field trip to USM School of Distance Education are as follows:

·                    To learn more about a USM DE Center

·                    To observe and examine the distance education teaching & learning strategies used by the lecturers and students in USM.

·                    Complement our theoretical learning of our DE course through observing a DE center

Description of site: USM School of Distance Learning

At 1994, this programme was officially named as a Distance Learning programme (Rancangan Pengajian Jarak Jauh). This programme fully handles by School of Distance Learning (SDE) with 65 of full time academic staff members mostly of them have a doctoral qualification in a wide range of research disciplines. All of them are actively engaged in research projects and are supervising a large number of research students. The expertise of the academic staff is evident through their extensive publications in international and national peer-reviewed journals, books and conference proceedings. They also have 30 part time lecturer and 50 non-academic staff.

Teaching strategies

The teaching and learning process was implemented based on effectiveness of pedagogy, cost, and the latest technologies. Until now, they have several of teaching and learning media to deliver the lesson. Some of them are printed media like module, text books, notes, video conference, and internet and so on. Until end of 2006, there are 12 500 undergraduate student in many field like Human Science, Social Science, Science, Engineering, Education and Management, 76 postgraduate students enrolled for the M.A. or M.Sc. programmes with another 31 students enrolled for the Ph.D. programme from countries all over the world.

Distribution of Learning Materials

·        Post the materials to the students - suitable for rural student and they didn’t have the internet access.  USM try to fulfill their student need and requirement so everybody have a chance to take this course at USM.

·        Video conferencing: hard to get students reflection or ask question.  There is two (2) way communications which is synchronous and asynchronous response, interactive cd for Sabah and Sarawak.

·        Live video conferencing to your home

·        Recorded and package it, students should have establish streamyx and connection

Issues and Recommendation -  at the video conference centre, it’s better if the lecture can use face to face instruction and just setting the video conference in the classroom, so student at the centre can communicate with lecture directly and face to face, this way more easy. And the student at others DE centre still can follow the learning session. But, what I can see at USM DE centre, lecture should stay or sit in video conference room to give their lecture and the besides room, their students follow their lecture through TV…. I think USM DE facilities should upgrade and should set the video conference tools in classroom.  Study center provides video conferencing but recorded only for one way communications that can have it at their home.

          Lastly, USM DE provide the program not only for ICT savvy, or urban student but its also suitable for rural student and its make no geography boundaries. So everybody can learn and improve their self through USM DE. ‘Everybody can learn. And we learn through doing…’

Prepared by:

NORHASIMAH MOHAMED

PGC050014

 old version

 Field Trip : Distance Learning USM

Date : 02 Mac 2007

Comment, reflect, post question, provide answer to field trip report

USM Field Trip Program

1. School Of Distance Education
2. Centre for Instructional Technology & Multimedia

2 Mac 2007, one trip to USM was conducted for students who take the pxgt6308 course. This trip is for completed this course. This field trip provides us the real experience about School of Distance Learning at USM.  The Distance Education Program at USM, was established in 1971 to provide opportunities for working adults to obtain tertiary education. Through innovative education approaches, working adults are able to undertake undergraduate courses while remaining in full-time employment. Besides the undergraduate programme, the school of Distance Education also offers postgraduate programme by research, namely the Master of Arts, Master of Social Science, Master of Science and Doctor of Philosophy. The postgraduate programmes are offered either full-time or part-time and candidates are required to undertake a research project under the supervision of the academic staff. the award of the degrees is based on the examination of a thesis submitted at the end of the research component.

At 1994, this programme was officially named as a Distance Learning programme (Rancangan Pengajian Jarak Jauh). This programme fully handles by School of Distance Learning (SDE) with 65 of full time academic staff members mostly of them have a doctoral qualification in a wide range of research disciplines. All of them are actively engaged in research projects and are supervising a large number of research students. The expertise of the academic staff is evident through their extensive publications in international and national peer-reviewed journals, books and conference proceedings. They also have 30 part time lecturer and 50 non-academic staff.

The teaching and learning process was implemented based on effectiveness of pedagogy, cost, and the latest technologies. Until now, they have several of teaching and learning media to deliver the lesson. Some of them are printed media like module, text books, notes, video conference, and internet and so on. Until end of 2006, there are 12 500 undergraduate student in many field like Human Science, Social Science, Science, Engineering, Education and Management, 76 postgarduate students enrolled for the M.A. or M.Sc. programmes with another 31 students enrooled for the Ph.D. programme from countries all over the world.

to be continued....