designbasics



=Instructional Design Basics=

// Please be aware that the field of instructional design has many “experts.” There are many ideas – sometimes differing greatly – about graphic design “rules” offered by these experts. Most of the resources in the following list are for materials that will be put on the web. Many of the rules that apply to the design of web-based materials apply to other electronic (and non-electronic) materials – but they don’t always apply. Use your good common sense when designing any instructional materials, whether they are web-based or not. // //-SWQ//

General Information Typography

Also see Instructional Design Models, Designing for Online Instruction, UDL, Designing for the Web, Web Colors, Accessible Web Design, CSS,

GENERAL INFORMATION
Webpage Design for Designers http://www.wpdfd.com/

Layout-o-matic http://www.inknoise.com/experimental/layoutomatic.php

Resources for Web Design http://www.kayodeok.btinternet.co.uk/favorites/webdesign.htm

A Great Web Design Resource [|http://www.wpdfd.com/]

Teaching & Learning Strategies Matrix (University of Newcastle – Australia) http://www.newcastle.edu.au/discipline/sociol-anthrop/staff/kibbymarj/online/matrix.html

The Design Process http://www.technology-education.org/pages/thedesignprocess.htm.

Theory Into Practice (TIP) database http://tip.psychology.org/index.html

Principles of Instructional Design [Illinois Online Network] http://www.ion.uillinois.edu/resources/tutorials/id/index.asp

Instructional Design (by Elena Qureshi) http://venus.uwindsor.ca/courses/edfac/morton/instructional_design.htm

A Hypertext History of Instructional Design http://www.coe.uh.edu/courses/cuin6373/idhistory/index.html Arranged by decade

What is Instructional Design? http://www.coe.uh.edu/courses/cuin6373/whatisid.html

Christa Harrelson: Themes http://ttc.coe.uga.edu/christah/clhport/themes.htm#id

What is Instructional Design (Curtis L. Broderick) http://www.geocities.com/ok_bcurt/whatisID.htm

Sitepoint http://www.sitepoint.com/ Covers almost all areas of design and creation of web materials, including information about things to consider before designing materials, such as site planning and legal issues.

Sitepoint - Design and Layout: Latest Articles http://www.sitepoint.com/cat/design-and-layout

Design Links http://www.coedu.usf.edu/inst_tech/resources/design.html This site, from the College of Education at the University of South Florida, includes articles and links to additional information about instructional design.

Multimedia Presentations http://www.vanderbilt.edu/cft/resources/teaching_resources/technology/presentations.htm

How to Develop an Inquiry-based Project http://www.youthlearn.org/learning/activities/howto.asp

Creating and Designing Pages: Using Tables to Present Content http://macromedia.com/support/dreamweaver/pages_tables.html

Designing for different window sizes http://www.macromedia.com/cfusion/knowledgebase/index.cfm?id=tn_12921

An Introduction to Educational Design Research [] “This book is the result of a seminar on ‘educational design research’ organized … by Prof Zhu Zhiting (Department of Educational Technology) of the College of Educational Sciences at the East China Normal University in Shanghai (PR China). The primary goal of the seminar was to introduce a group postgraduate students and lecturing staff in China to educational design research as a research approach.”

35 More Qualities of The Ideal Instructional Designer [] The original list of ten qualities can be found at []

Seven Principles of Universal Design []

TYPOGRAPHY
Five Simple Steps to Better Typography http://www.pilmore.co.uk/2007/03/15/five-simple-steps-to-better-typography/

Typography Terms http://www.proximasoftware.com/fontexpert/terms/

If You Think All Sans Serif Fonts Are the Same http://www.presentersonline.com/basics/visuals/sanseriffonts.shtml

Fonts and PowerPoint: TrueType vs. PostScript http://www.presentersonline.com/basics/visuals/fonts.shtml