Syllabus

**Title of TIP Course:** // Make It Visual: Using visual tools for presentation, expression and engagement // **Instructor:**  Beth Lloyd, OTR/L school based occupational therapist **Meeting Location:**  Hosmer Library **Credit:** 10 hours class time plus 5 additional hours for project development **Course Description:**  “Vision trumps all senses.” This quote by John Medina, author of __Brain Rules__, is the basis of why we need to pump up our visual style. Pictures tower over text for recognition and recall of information. Vision influences hearing and we learn best if we stimulate both these senses at once. We will discover the brain science behind the power of images and the nuts and bolts around what makes a good image, visual representation and animation. Our main focus will be on the universal design for learning principles - how to represent information, allow students to express their understanding and engage with the content in visual ways. As we will apply this to our classrooms and practice, we will explore the many technology tools that are freely available and choose the ones that most suit us and our classrooms.

 This course will not address the basics of taking digital images or using video software. It is assumed that you know these basics and want to take the next step. That being said, we all have holes in our technology knowledge, so the main requirement is to be willing to click, play around with the tools and teach yourself as we learn together.

 Goal: To promote universal design for learning principles using visual methods  Participants will:
 * embrace the three principles of universal design for learning and understand the brain science related to each principle
 * understand what constitutes good images and choose them to represent or express ideas in engaging ways
 * create or identify effective visual representations/graphics and use them to represent a concept or idea
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">create a simple video to represent information or express knowledge
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">use images, visual representation/graphics and video/animations for visual communication in the classroom
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">build a set of tools that offer students flexible methods to express themselves visually
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">understand free use laws and creative commons license for online media

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**Materials Needed:**
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">An explorer’s spirit
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The desire to learn new tools
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Laptop (let me know if you need to borrow one during our sessions)
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Access to a digital camera and video recording device such as The Flip (you may use the camera/video on your cellphone)

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**Course website:** <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Make It Visual __http://makeitvisual.wikispaces.com/__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> please join before the first session

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**Session I: October 6 (1:00 – 2:30)** //Universal Design and The Power of an Image// <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**Session 2 November 2 (12:30 – 2:30)** //Design and Graphics// <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**Session 3: January 18 (10:30 -12:30)** //Take Two - Videos and Animations// <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**Session 4: March 14 (10:30 -12:30)** //Now What? Put it into the Classroom//