Week 3 Discussion Post 2

Week 3 Discussion Post #2 

Reading White Space is Not Your Enemy and watching

the interview with Margaret Kiernan I have thought about making multimedia

easily accessible for students and carefully choosing the different elements to the layout page in which I intend to create so students share their ideas. Ms. Kieman frequently mentioned to be aware of the audience, purpose and the audience needs. This is certainly helpful in thinking about the way to craft my project or even the way students craft their project. As I think about my classroom, I think about Ms.Kieman, as she stated “focusing on the subject is a priority”. This would be purposeful in giving students clear visual multimedia direction.

The purpose of my Multi Media project is to help students improve their writing skills in a creative manner and I now see how it can be incorporated into student writing.  Some of the elements in White Space is Not your Enemy discuss establishing a clear focal point and setting type properly. This is helpful for my classroom because it will help create cohesion for myself and for my students should I have them design a website. Creating a clear focal point can aid in organization and create a flowing Multi Media Project.

White Space is Not your Enemy also discusses the benefits of incorporating visual images to meet the goal communication objective. Meeting the objective of a visual design is important for my classroom because students often need guidance in incorporating various forms of media in their creative design. A clear objective will allow students to focus, reflect and collaborate on their creative designs. A bad Graphic Design Model will result in clutter

and can misdirect focus which can result in
students being confused or not directed to the correct web page.

My goal is to allow students to work collaboratively and creatively with multimedia to specifically improve their writing. By abiding by the rules of visual design students can navigate pages easily and conduct their work with more awareness to their audience. By being aware of the audience students and myself included can manipulate our media for visual success. Ms. Keiman stated that it is crucial to think about “where your eye is going” and this has resonated with me because I often forget about my audience when using multi-media. Reflecting on the reading and looking at other post I have realized that there are several ways to portray a message while pleasing the audiences’ eyes.

The readings have created clear and consistent methods to guide the audience when reading which is important as a teacher and as students. Chapter 4 has made me especially aware of how to appear professional when composing my blog, it has made it apparent that when teaching visual literacy, I should address standard flows in conjunction with a highly effective product that can serve as the ideal example for students to replicate and learn from. This will also guide me in assuring that I don't make the mistakes in the future and guide my students in preventing these same mistakes. As an audience we prefer media that is visually appealing and can learn from our presences to aid the multiple media project. When students thinking about the features of the web they can also think about how to structure their writing when composing response online. This can help build media literacy as students are aware of their audience visually and when writing.

Resources:
D., & M. (n.d.). Design Rules of Thumb. , from http://www.writedesignonline.com/resources/design/rules/index.html

Golombisky, K., & Hagen, R. (2010). White space is not your enemy: a beginner's guide to communicating visually through graphic, web & multimedia design. Amsterdam: Focal Press/Elsevier.
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KrbhxrNlc1U