KEVIN SMITH
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Have you ever attended a presentation with slides that had too many words, too many bullets, and just didn't look very good? In this session, I'm going to help you improve the way you design visuals for learning. You don't have to be a graphic designer. If you learn some basic principles, you can improve how you design visuals, which may help your students learn more.

2 important things to remember:
#1 - Design Matters
#2 - You don't have to be an artist!
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Resources:
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Book
  • Visual Design Solutions by Connie Malamed - this is the book I used in one of my graduate classes to teach ​students about designing visuals learning

Videos
  • Visual Design Principles
  • Beginning Graphic Design: Fundamentals
  • Beginning Graphic Design: Color
  • Beginning Graphic Design: Layout & Composition

Articles to help you...
  • 25 Graphic Design Tips for Non-Designers and Beginners

Sites for images...
  • ​Pixabay
  • Pexels
  • Unsplash
  • The Noun Project

** Please don't use images from Google without paying attention to copyright. Please teach your students about copyrights. This is a great blog post to help you with this.

​Tools for designing visuals...
  • Canva - this is my favorite!
  • Adobe Creative Cloud Express - this used to be Adobe Spark. Great tool for creating videos, graphics, presentations.
  • ​Figma - design tool that is great for collaboration
Kevin Smith
Professor, Dakota State University
Twitter: @KevinSmithSD
Instagram: @KevinSmithSD
  • Home
  • About
    • BIO
    • Curriculum Vitae
    • Research
    • Professional Organizations
  • Presentations
    • Math Is Not Yucky!
    • ChatGPT
    • Visual Design
    • ChatGPT
    • D2L Training
    • Fun Math Routines
    • Integrating Technology with UDL
    • Tech Tools
    • Silver Linings
    • Gamification
    • Idea to App
  • Yucky!
    • Math Apps
    • Board Games
    • Websites
    • Math Activities
    • Articles for Parents
    • Yucky! - Reviews
  • Escape K-8 Math