Schafer+Final+Project

=**Dawn Schafer's Visual Introduction**= =**ET504**=

View my Visual Introduction at Glogster [] or on my blog []

=Visual Introduction Justification Paper=

Contrast
The elements of contrast are used in more ways than I originally intended. I used contrast in the colors I chose to use on my poster. I chose a gray background and then bold colors for my title and text boxes to provide contrast. Within the text boxes, I used a light colored text to contrast with the background color. I used contrast with the language in the two bubbles. My personal bubble is more informal and my professional bubble is in more formal language. There is contrast as well with the still frames and the animated object. I also used contrast with the “multi-media” elements. I used my own voice as one audio selection, a theatrical reading as another element, and the other two audios are actually videos too; there are links to 2 music videos. There are a variety of contrasts in not only what you see on my poster, but also what you hear.

Alignment
I used alignment on my personal information side on the left. I left justified the picture and the text for unity. On the right, my professional information, I justified the picture and the text to the right to show unity on that side. On the bottom, my family information, I did more of a center full alignment to keep the balance of the poster. The alignment helps identify the separate sections of the posters, and allows those sections to look more unified.

Repetition
I used repetition is a few different ways. I repeated the colors on each section. In my personal section, I repeated my favorite color, blue. The color of my dress in that picture is yellow, so I used it as an accent color. On my professional section, I repeated the maroon and gray colors which are our school colors. I repeated the yellow and green colors on the family section because we are a John Deere farm family. The reason using a different color for each section was to show that the elements in that section belonged together. I repeated texture as well; most elements and text boxes have a textured feel to them.

Proximity
I used space to separate my sections. I tried to group the three sections together by color and left “white” space in between them to show the groupings. I placed the speech bubble close to the face to show who was speaking. I also used the space within the text boxes to add my audio/video elements. Leaving a little gray all around the outside of the poster, shows that all the sections are a part of one concept, Me!

Glogster.com
My visual introduction was created through [|Glogster.com]. I stumbled upon Glogster by accident while researching for another project. Glogster.com allows the user to make a one-paged poster. Many features are available through Glogster. You can add text, images, links, videos and audio files to your poster. I like that if you write a lot of text and your textbox isn’t big enough to hold it, or you don’t want to make your text box bigger, it will provide a scroll bar on the side of the text box when you publish it. The user is not limited to the amount of text on the poster. I was able to easily post it on by blog but could not figure out how to embed it on the Wiki, although it does claim to be possible. I guess you can post it to Facebook and MySpace as well. It does concern me that there might not be enough room for Works Cited information if the students chose to get content or images from outside of Glogster, but I figured they could either turn in a separate Works Cited page or they could include it on their poster with a scrolling text box. I wanted to add a song to my poster, and it will let you upload an entire song. The problem with this is that copyright law indicates that you can only play 30 seconds of a song. I wasn’t sure how to shorten my song, so I had to leave it out. Glogster has an EDU site where teachers can register up to 200 students for free. I’m still a new user and have not tried the EDU site since I am on sabbatical. Click here to learn more about [|Glogster EDU].