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1 – What makes an effective information poster

• A good information posted should show lots of information at a glance.
• Look at these information posters
  • What makes them effective?
  • What would make them better?
• Find some other effective information posters and make a list of features

  

 2 – Tools

1. We are going to explore three tools for making posters:
   1. Google Docs (Go to Google Drive – Create – Googe Docs)
   2. j2e5
   3. j2Office – Writer
2. Open each of these tools and have a brief explore – what tools are there?

3 – Make an information poster about South America

1. Here is an information poster that I made on Google Docs
   1. Example Sourth Africa poster
2. I have saved a file in each tool for you to edit – the text and pictures are all there, you just need to edit
   1. Google Docs – link on Google Classroom
   2. j2Office Writer South America Poster
   3. j2e5 South America Poster

3 Create a j2e5 poster

• Use the Success Criteria that we have written together
• Be resilient – don’t be happy with “ok”

4 Make a Google Doc information book page

1. Go to Google Classrrom (Class 21) – Classwork – South America  Information Page Google Doc
2. Insert a table in Google Doc to arrange facts and pictures
   1. Make the border lines invisible
   2. Colour the cells
   3. Change width/merge cells
3. Insert pictures
   1. Put them in different places
   2. Crop – eg banner picture at top/bottom
4. Style
   1. Choose font, colours (one or two only)
   2. Avoid rainbox, fancy fonts
5. Information
   1. Keep it simple and short – but informative

5 j2e5 mini book

6 Evaluation

• Which tool is easiest to use?
• Which creates the best poster?

Success Criteria 1

• Bold title
• Fill the page
• Stand out
• Dividing into sections/blocks
• Pictures/symbols
• Lots of info

Success Criteria 2 – fine tuning

• Big (easy to read) font
• No highlighting
• Space
• Balance
• Centre