Making Infographics to Inspire Learning - EDC-X784V
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Course Description
Credit Validation for KQED Participants Only
The language of visual design offers a powerful way to engage students. Here you’ll learn to represent complex ideas, information and data in compelling infographics and develop the confidence to enrich your teaching with new media skills. In this hands-on course you will explore ways students can use graphics, images and interactive media for creative expression and to communicate information, make your own infographic for instructional use, and develop a standards-aligned (CCSS, NGSS) lesson plan in which students create graphics or interactive media to demonstrate learning.
You can register for this free course at https://teach.kqed.org/p/making-infographics
Learner Outcomes
- Explore how visual design fundamentals, like color choice, layout, filters and iconography work together to tell a story
- Learn to access and display data visually or interactively to communicate concepts
- Create lesson plans for classroom projects that align with Common Core and other curriculum standards to ensure that time spent using visuals to produce graphics or interactives result in student learning you want to see
- Develop strategies for allocating and organizing resources to best facilitate visual media projects in a classroom environment
Course Details
Number of Units: 1.0 graduate level extension credit(s) in semester hours
Who Should Attend: This course provides continuing education for K-12 educators in all subject areas who want to develop skills and confidence with media making and media literacy.
Directions to Enrolled Participants for University Credit: Submit your Certificate of Completion by email to pce-cv@sandiego.edu after enrolling for credit and completing the course.