Comments on: Simple but effective http://www.boxoftricks.net/?p=1628 Technology and Education Tue, 07 Sep 2010 19:52:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: A Guest Appearance « The LanguagesResources Blog http://www.boxoftricks.net/?p=1628&cpage=1#comment-1958 A Guest Appearance « The LanguagesResources Blog Wed, 17 Feb 2010 21:45:15 +0000 http://www.boxoftricks.net/?p=1628#comment-1958 [...] | In Uncategorized | Leave a Comment Tags: guest_post, mfl, technology Early in January I wrote a guest post for José Picardo’s Box of Tricks Blog, along with a variety of other MFL teachers from a [...] [...] | In Uncategorized | Leave a Comment Tags: guest_post, mfl, technology Early in January I wrote a guest post for José Picardo’s Box of Tricks Blog, along with a variety of other MFL teachers from a [...]

]]> By: 20 Free Tech Tools for Learning and Communicating | twitterblogger.net http://www.boxoftricks.net/?p=1628&cpage=1#comment-1857 20 Free Tech Tools for Learning and Communicating | twitterblogger.net Wed, 06 Jan 2010 01:30:40 +0000 http://www.boxoftricks.net/?p=1628#comment-1857 [...] Simple but effective (boxoftricks.net) More Resources from TwitterBlogger:25 Free Apps And Websites For Tech-Loving TeachersConsider Including Squidoo Into Your Internet BusinessHOW TO: Start and Run a Successful Twitter ChatHubpages and SquidooSign-In to MySpace With … Facebook? var fbShare = {url: 'http://twitterblogger.net/20-free-tech-tools-for-learning-and-communicating/',size:'large'} [...] [...] Simple but effective (boxoftricks.net) More Resources from TwitterBlogger:25 Free Apps And Websites For Tech-Loving TeachersConsider Including Squidoo Into Your Internet BusinessHOW TO: Start and Run a Successful Twitter ChatHubpages and SquidooSign-In to MySpace With … Facebook? var fbShare = {url: 'http://twitterblogger.net/20-free-tech-tools-for-learning-and-communicating/',size:'large'} [...]

]]> By: Graham Davies http://www.boxoftricks.net/?p=1628&cpage=1#comment-1849 Graham Davies Tue, 05 Jan 2010 09:57:43 +0000 http://www.boxoftricks.net/?p=1628#comment-1849 Sam, your pupil is probably just finding learning a language tough. One of the best linguists I have worked with as a colleague is totally red/green colour blind. I only found this out when I presented him with a computer screen with red text on a green background (not one of my designs!). "What do I have to do?" he asked, "The screen is blank." My daughter is a professional graphic designer. After she graduated from college and had learned all about colours and their positive and negative affects, especially in advertising material, she began to shoot holes in my screen designs. A lot has been written about the psychology of colours, e.g. http://psychology.about.com/od/sensationandperception/a/colorpsych.htm http://www.bharatbhasha.com/psychology.php/22036 Sam, your pupil is probably just finding learning a language tough. One of the best linguists I have worked with as a colleague is totally red/green colour blind. I only found this out when I presented him with a computer screen with red text on a green background (not one of my designs!). “What do I have to do?” he asked, “The screen is blank.”

My daughter is a professional graphic designer. After she graduated from college and had learned all about colours and their positive and negative affects, especially in advertising material, she began to shoot holes in my screen designs. A lot has been written about the psychology of colours, e.g.

http://psychology.about.com/od/sensationandperception/a/colorpsych.htm
http://www.bharatbhasha.com/psychology.php/22036

]]> By: Graham Davies http://www.boxoftricks.net/?p=1628&cpage=1#comment-3016 Graham Davies Tue, 05 Jan 2010 09:57:00 +0000 http://www.boxoftricks.net/?p=1628#comment-3016 Sam, your pupil is probably just finding learning a language tough. One of the best linguists I have worked with as a colleague is totally red/green colour blind. I only found this out when I presented him with a computer screen with red text on a green background (not one of my designs!). "What do I have to do?" he asked, "The screen is blank." My daughter is a professional graphic designer. After she graduated from college and had learned all about colours and their positive and negative affects, especially in advertising material, she began to shoot holes in my screen designs. A lot has been written about the psychology of colours, e.g. http://psychology.about.com/od/sensationandperception/a/colorpsych.htm http://www.bharatbhasha.com/psychology.php/22036 Sam, your pupil is probably just finding learning a language tough. One of the best linguists I have worked with as a colleague is totally red/green colour blind. I only found this out when I presented him with a computer screen with red text on a green background (not one of my designs!). “What do I have to do?” he asked, “The screen is blank.”

My daughter is a professional graphic designer. After she graduated from college and had learned all about colours and their positive and negative affects, especially in advertising material, she began to shoot holes in my screen designs. A lot has been written about the psychology of colours, e.g.

http://psychology.about.com/od/sensationandperception/a/colorpsych.htm
http://www.bharatbhasha.com/psychology.php/22036

]]> By: Sam http://www.boxoftricks.net/?p=1628&cpage=1#comment-1848 Sam Mon, 04 Jan 2010 22:40:36 +0000 http://www.boxoftricks.net/?p=1628#comment-1848 Interestingly Graham, this year I have a Year 11 pupil who has recently been diagnosed as colour blind. He has always struggled with learning Spanish and it dawned on me that maybe the colours I was using were not creating the grammatical awareness for him that the other pupils had picked up on. I contacted his Head of Year with this query, but was told that his main issue was a variety of colour combinations which (thankfully) I hadn't used - I am still trying to figure out what he finds difficult in order to help him pass his GCSE! Interestingly Graham, this year I have a Year 11 pupil who has recently been diagnosed as colour blind. He has always struggled with learning Spanish and it dawned on me that maybe the colours I was using were not creating the grammatical awareness for him that the other pupils had picked up on.

I contacted his Head of Year with this query, but was told that his main issue was a variety of colour combinations which (thankfully) I hadn’t used – I am still trying to figure out what he finds difficult in order to help him pass his GCSE!

]]> By: Sam http://www.boxoftricks.net/?p=1628&cpage=1#comment-3015 Sam Mon, 04 Jan 2010 22:40:00 +0000 http://www.boxoftricks.net/?p=1628#comment-3015 Interestingly Graham, this year I have a Year 11 pupil who has recently been diagnosed as colour blind. He has always struggled with learning Spanish and it dawned on me that maybe the colours I was using were not creating the grammatical awareness for him that the other pupils had picked up on. I contacted his Head of Year with this query, but was told that his main issue was a variety of colour combinations which (thankfully) I hadn't used - I am still trying to figure out what he finds difficult in order to help him pass his GCSE! Interestingly Graham, this year I have a Year 11 pupil who has recently been diagnosed as colour blind. He has always struggled with learning Spanish and it dawned on me that maybe the colours I was using were not creating the grammatical awareness for him that the other pupils had picked up on.

I contacted his Head of Year with this query, but was told that his main issue was a variety of colour combinations which (thankfully) I hadn’t used – I am still trying to figure out what he finds difficult in order to help him pass his GCSE!

]]> By: 2010 – What will this year hold? « The LanguagesResources Blog http://www.boxoftricks.net/?p=1628&cpage=1#comment-1845 2010 – What will this year hold? « The LanguagesResources Blog Mon, 04 Jan 2010 18:46:26 +0000 http://www.boxoftricks.net/?p=1628#comment-1845 [...] the area I fell that I ‘inspire’ the most in is the use of ICT in MFL (see my recent guest blog post for José Picardo’s blog), however, not everyone is in the position to be able to make huge [...] [...] the area I fell that I ‘inspire’ the most in is the use of ICT in MFL (see my recent guest blog post for José Picardo’s blog), however, not everyone is in the position to be able to make huge [...]

]]> By: José Picardo http://www.boxoftricks.net/?p=1628&cpage=1#comment-1842 José Picardo Mon, 04 Jan 2010 17:56:08 +0000 http://www.boxoftricks.net/?p=1628#comment-1842 How very true Graham. I do indeed teach two boys this year who are colour blind and I always need to be mindful of which colours I can and can't use. Nevertheless, the principles Samantha lays out are very sound and often it's simple things like using colours imaginatevely in a word document or a Powerpoint that make a grammar explanation memorable. How very true Graham. I do indeed teach two boys this year who are colour blind and I always need to be mindful of which colours I can and can’t use.

Nevertheless, the principles Samantha lays out are very sound and often it’s simple things like using colours imaginatevely in a word document or a Powerpoint that make a grammar explanation memorable.

]]> By: Guest http://www.boxoftricks.net/?p=1628&cpage=1#comment-3014 Guest Mon, 04 Jan 2010 17:56:00 +0000 http://www.boxoftricks.net/?p=1628#comment-3014 How very true Graham. I do indeed teach two boys this year who are colour blind and I always need to be mindful of which colours I can and can't use. Nevertheless, the principles Samantha lays out are very sound and often it's simple things like using colours imaginatevely in a word document or a Powerpoint that make a grammar explanation memorable. How very true Graham. I do indeed teach two boys this year who are colour blind and I always need to be mindful of which colours I can and can’t use.

Nevertheless, the principles Samantha lays out are very sound and often it’s simple things like using colours imaginatevely in a word document or a Powerpoint that make a grammar explanation memorable.

]]> By: Graham Davies http://www.boxoftricks.net/?p=1628&cpage=1#comment-1841 Graham Davies Mon, 04 Jan 2010 17:47:59 +0000 http://www.boxoftricks.net/?p=1628#comment-1841 Good post. Keep it simple - nice! Just a quick comment on colours: We touch on this topic in Section 3 of Module 3.2 at the ICT4LT site under the heading General program design principles. The principles are based to a large extent on what we learned designing the TELL Consortium programs in the 1990s. The main rules re colour are in Section 3.5. We discovered early on in our work that red/green colour blindness is common, affecting around 8% of European males, i.e. both colours look the same if you have this type of colour blindness. Above all, one should avoid using colour opposites in combination: red/green, blue/orange, yellow/violet. I was once taken to task by a BBC producer who took one look at my early computer programs and told me that I was over-using colour and using "illegal" colour combinations. After that, like Samantha, I kept it simple! Have a look at Module 3.2: http://www.ict4lt.org/en/en_mod3-2.htm Graham Good post. Keep it simple – nice! Just a quick comment on colours:

We touch on this topic in Section 3 of Module 3.2 at the ICT4LT site under the heading General program design principles. The principles are based to a large extent on what we learned designing the TELL Consortium programs in the 1990s. The main rules re colour are in Section 3.5. We discovered early on in our work that red/green colour blindness is common, affecting around 8% of European males, i.e. both colours look the same if you have this type of colour blindness. Above all, one should avoid using colour opposites in combination: red/green, blue/orange, yellow/violet.

I was once taken to task by a BBC producer who took one look at my early computer programs and told me that I was over-using colour and using “illegal” colour combinations. After that, like Samantha, I kept it simple!

Have a look at Module 3.2:

http://www.ict4lt.org/en/en_mod3-2.htm

Graham

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