Thoughts, Feelings, Emotions...

Upon working through the course I have gained the understanding of what goes into the websites we use every day to make it visually appealing and what draws your eyes to them.  I feel that I am now able to locate and identify flaws or successes in the digital world around us. I understand the collaboration that goes into fully being able to create an accessible website that is attractive, useful and easy on the eyes.

I found myself working through different assignments and applying the skills gained in my daily works for my own job. I have been able to create an infographic, a video that was used in a monthly assembly and helping another staff editing our parent communication blog to help find balance and contrast for a better attraction for the parents.

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I am very happy with how this class offered new ideas and concepts that I am able to take and use. 

I hope that this blog has given an insight of the tasks that are assigned during this course and are thought provoking to all who see it. 

Thanks for reading!

Amy 😊

Team Design

Working with my peers we created a website that would be used in a Kindergarten classroom as part of the parent communication. Miss Johnston was very excited to see what we had created. We created a website that was simple and balanced but allowed for lots of interaction with parents and Miss Johnston. 

The home page gives parents a nice and simple look into what the classroom looks like. Using the balance of the tabs across the top make it easy to navigate the site. 

The tabs open up daily schedules, links to communication tools for parents, along with resources for curriculum connections. The colours are simple and make connections to the curriculum document and the font is easy to read. 

Learning Object... Final Look

Here is the final product of my infographic. The feedback was consistent in finding the balance in my layout and a few small and minor details. With these in mind I made some adjustments and am very pleased with the end result. Have a look!

Learning Object... Developing Stage

For my learning object I decided to create an infographic. This infographic would be used to teach and educate parents of pre-kindergarten and Kindergarten students on some fine motor tips and tricks. This will be used as a part of a Welcome to Kindergarten package given out at our schools information night.

This was then put out to my peers and fellow co-workers for their feedback and input to make adjustments for my final product.

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I took all of this feedback and made changes to my Infographic accordingly. I appreciated all the feedback I received and was excited to make the changes to see what the end product was going to look like. 

Design Logo - Final Product Vision

I took into consideration the feedback that I received from my peers and made my finishing touches...   

                              

Here is the final product for my logo design. I used colours that would be found on the Canadian Food Guide and incorporated the heart and apple shapes to represent the Food for Kids program. The hands were added to show the connection and support for adults to the children we feed and held in value.

In the beginning...

Design Artifact 

As an Early Childhood Educator working in a public school, I have taken on the role of running a breakfast / nutrition program at my school. Through this I have made some connections with the Food for Kids Coordinators. These people manage and make sure that the schools involved in their program have the supplies they need, both food and equipment. I feed up to 70 children every morning in a school of about 300 students that is in a small rural community. I have made sure that I have my Safe Food Handlers Certificate and have knowledge of the Canada’s Food Guide. I was then asked to model my program for other facilitators and this is when I was asked to help come up with the app and content for others to use. I was given the task to first create the logo that was going to be on the apps faceplate. I took on the challenge and also have contributed to the apps creation.

For the deign artifact I chose to create an app logo. In my beginning planning stage I had a couple of pencil sketches and planning post-it notes.

                                    

                                      I ended up using the second design sketch

and the ideas that had come from some peer feedback.