celebrating our superheroes in the classroom - our teachers
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Celebrating Our Superheroes in the Classroom – Our Teachers
Our Superheroes
Teacher Appreciation Week is a week-long celebration in the United States that is observed during the first full week in May. When I was asked to help design a door for my niece's teacher I was thrilled at the opportunity to participate.
The school's PTA sent home a newsletter in the form of a comic book page to introduce the theme and share the schedule of activities planned for each day of the week. The theme was "Superheroes."
National Teacher Appreciation Week: May 4-8, 2015Teacher Appreciation Day: May 5, 2015
This presentation is inspired by the SmartDraw Blog post entitled, “Celebrating Our Superheroes in the Classroom – Our Teachers” To view the full blog posting go to http://blog.smartdraw.com/
STEP #1: Deciding on a Design
SmartDraw Tip: Drawing to scale doesn't necessarily have to be exclusively used on floor plan or landscape designs.
Since the final design was going to be installed on a classroom door, I drew it to scale. I chose not display the dimensions on the diagram above as it would be distracting.
STEP #2: Students Joining in on the Fun
Time Saving Tips When Designing Classroom Handouts Full color handouts saves students time in coloring Limit the amount of detail to be cut by hand Use easy to understand instructions Provide examples to guide the students
STEP #2: Students Joining in on the Fun (continued)
SmartDraw Tip: Determining the size of the minion in the handout was based on a calculation of the (surface area of
the door) minus (the area of the door design) divided by (the total number of
students) = size of the minion.
The Making of a Hero in Training Minion
SmartDraw Tip: Using SmartDraw doesn't necessarily require artistic or drawing skills. It does, however, help to have a little imagination. By simply dragging and dropping a combination of shapes from the Home Ribbon's Shape control, I was able to create our Hero in Training Minion.
STEP #3: Communicating Final Details & Logistics
SmartDraw Tip: Navigate to the top left hand corner of the screen to the Quick Access Control Bar. This bar contains a series of controls: Undo, Redo, New, Save, Email, Print, PDF, Word, PowerPoint, and Excel. Select the Email Control.
An Outlook email will be prompted. SmartDraw will automatically (a) enter the name of the file into the Subject Line, (b) automatically attach the source file to the email, and (c) the diagram will appear in the body of the email.
The Making of Our Teacher’s Superhero Shield
SmartDraw Tip: To draw your own superhero shield, navigate to the Home Ribbon. In the Line drop-down menu select Polygon Line and draw the shield. Then, I layered several black C's of various sizes to create the illusion of a border around a red "C." I grouped the letters and the shield using Ctrl+G.
The Making of Our Teacher’s Superhero Shield (continued)
SmartDraw Tip: In order to see the message, I needed to make the shield transparent. This was achieved by making a white colored shape transparent. Select the white colored shape. Navigate to the Home Ribbon's Fill drop-down menu, select the appropriate percentage in the Transparency bar.
The Making of Our Teacher’s Superhero Shield (continued)
SmartDraw Tip: Type the message to which you'd like to add a shadow. Select the text, use Ctrl+D to duplicate the text. Change the color of the shadow text to black, then place the text on top of the other. When they are aligned use Ctrl+G to group the text.
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With a M.Ed. in Human Resource Development and Organizational Behavior, RuthJoy has become a trustedadvisor and educator working with mid-market to globalorganizations providing change management and useradoption strategy services for more than 15 years. As theDirector of Learning and Organizational Development ofSmartDraw Software she continues to coach and mentor professionals from non-profits to Fortune 500 companies.
An unashamed perfectionist and absolute “SmartDraw Addict,” she discovers innovative ways to use diagrams in her day-to-day activities to increase productivity and efficiency for herself as well as her clients.
About RuthJoy R. Bitner, M.Ed.
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