• Teachers are often looking for interactive graphic activities, but it’s not that hard to create them. Think about this for yourself, but also apply it to future students, such as making posters – why might one create graphics for teaching?
    • we can make visuals that are “culturally relevant” to the students to build healthy relationships
    • words combined with visuals are more memorable for the students (cognitive theory of multimedia learning)
  • To make graphics, we can make use of tools such as Photoshop, Illustrator and Powerpoint.
    • we can also make worksheets with PowerPoint and awards for the students.

For our lab component, we experimented with these applications and created graphics to save with the class. Here’s what I created:

I took this picture of a nice Miata a few weeks ago and brought in some characters from the Studio Ghibli movies. I love how the Jiji‘s bow matches the car and Totoro‘s lighting aligns with the sunlight in the original image.