I never thought I would say this, but it's true. Ever since I started working on a PowerPoint math game slide show, I just keep thinking how much more aesthetically pleasing and less frustrating it would be to make one if having the knowledge of basic graphic design.
Let's put it this way, in order to make one slide yesterday, it took a group of 5 of us (teachers/ teachers in training) to figure out basic formatting. 5 of us! For 1 slide! That just doesn't seem right.
If I want to be a creative teacher that can incorporate technology in the classroom and actually have time to make the technology fun and interactive, some basic knowledge of these things must be built.
I loved working on the SmartBoard last year and creating fun math lessons for students. How fun would it be to have interactive quizzes that I can create based off of what I had taught them? I think what has happened is that my standards of what is good keep escalating as I am in my Master's program with constant inspiration coming up left and right from my peers. Now, when I go back to the classroom, my standards will be higher of what I can provide my students. I would really like to be the one who can teach them to be creative with this kind of stuff instead of the other way around.
So, this is the plan: once I get a full-time elementary teaching job, take a Spanish class and a cake decorating class, next on the list is graphic design!
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