Teachers are real life superheroes. They are the unsung heroes of the world. You wouldn't be where you are today without them. Planning your next Teacher Appreciation Week? Go to the full blog post to learn more: http://blog.smartdraw.com/celebrating-our-superheroes-in-the-classroom-our-teachers/

1. Celebrating Our Superheroes
in the Classroom – Our Teachers

2. Our Superheroes
Teacher Appreciation Week is a week-long
celebration in the United States that is
observed during the first full week in
May. When I was asked to help design a door
for my niece's teacher I was thrilled at the
opportunity to participate.
The school's PTA sent home a newsletter in
the form of a comic book page to
introduce the theme and share the schedule of
activities planned for each day of the
week. The theme was "Superheroes."
National Teacher Appreciation Week: May 4-8, 2015
Teacher Appreciation Day: May 5, 2015
This presentation is inspired by the SmartDraw Blog
post entitled, “Celebrating Our Superheroes in the
Classroom – Our Teachers” To view the full blog
posting go to http://blog.smartdraw.com/

3. STEP #1: Deciding on a Design
SmartDraw Tip: Drawing to scale
doesn't necessarily have to be
exclusively used on floor plan or
landscape designs.
Since the final design was going to
be installed on a classroom door, I
drew it to scale. I chose not display
the dimensions on the diagram
above as it would be distracting.

4. STEP #2: Students
Joining in on the Fun
Time Saving Tips When Designing Classroom Handouts
 Full color handouts saves students time in coloring
 Limit the amount of detail to be cut by hand
 Use easy to understand instructions
 Provide examples to guide the students

5. STEP #2: Students Joining
in on the Fun (continued)
SmartDraw Tip: Determining the size
of the minion in the handout was based
on a calculation of the (surface area of
the door) minus (the area of the door
design) divided by (the total number of
students) = size of the minion.

6. The Making of a Hero in Training Minion
SmartDraw Tip: Using SmartDraw doesn't necessarily require artistic or drawing skills. It does, however,
help to have a little imagination. By simply dragging and dropping a combination of shapes from the Home
Ribbon's Shape control, I was able to create our Hero in Training Minion.

7. STEP #3: Communicating
Final Details & Logistics
SmartDraw Tip: Navigate to the top left hand
corner of the screen to the Quick Access Control
Bar. This bar contains a series of controls: Undo,
Redo, New, Save, Email, Print, PDF, Word,
PowerPoint, and Excel. Select the Email Control.
An Outlook email will be prompted. SmartDraw will
automatically (a) enter the name of the file into the
Subject Line, (b) automatically attach the source file
to the email, and (c) the diagram will appear in the
body of the email.

8. The Making of Our
Teacher’s Superhero Shield
SmartDraw Tip: To draw your own superhero shield, navigate to the Home Ribbon. In the Line drop-down menu select
Polygon Line and draw the shield. Then, I layered several black C's of various sizes to create the illusion of a border
around a red "C." I grouped the letters and the shield using Ctrl+G.

9. The Making of Our Teacher’s
Superhero Shield (continued)
SmartDraw Tip: In order to see the message, I needed to make the shield transparent. This was achieved by making a
white colored shape transparent. Select the white colored shape. Navigate to the Home Ribbon's Fill drop-down menu,
select the appropriate percentage in the Transparency bar.

10. The Making of Our Teacher’s
Superhero Shield (continued)
SmartDraw Tip: Type the
message to which you'd like to
add a shadow. Select the text,
use Ctrl+D to duplicate the
text. Change the color of the
shadow text to black, then
place the text on top of the
other. When they are aligned
use Ctrl+G to group the text.

11. Do You Have a Story to Share?
How do you use SmartDraw?
I'd love to hear your story. I'm
always intrigued to find out how
other members of the SmartDraw
community are using it.
Send me an email at rjbitner@smartdraw.com

12. With a M.Ed. in Human Resource Development and
Organizational Behavior, RuthJoy has become a trusted
advisor and educator working with mid-market to global
organizations providing change management and user
adoption strategy services for more than 15 years. As the
Director of Learning and Organizational Development of
SmartDraw Software she continues to coach and mentor
professionals from non-profits to Fortune 500 companies.
An unashamed perfectionist and absolute “SmartDraw Addict,” she discovers
innovative ways to use diagrams in her day-to-day activities to increase
productivity and efficiency for herself as well as her clients.
About RuthJoy R. Bitner, M.Ed.

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