The document provides tips for creating beautiful learning materials, including using a consistent color scheme, contrasting text and background colors, properly attributing sources, including contact information, and limiting content to one idea per slide. It also gives examples of effective resources like Google Slides, Docs, Drawings, and videos. The document stresses being succinct, using tables of contents and horizontal lines to break up sections, and notes that less is more when creating learning materials.

1. Google
Module
Yesenia Amador & Cayla
Jackson

2. Create Beautiful Learning Materials
Key Tips for Creating Beautiful Learning Materials
 Decide on a consistent color scheme that you will use
throughout your entire resource. Two or three dominant
colors is best.
 Use contrasting colors (dark text on a light background or
light text on a dark background).
 Credit resources referenced and give attribution to others’
work.
 Let your audience know if your work is copyright protected.
 Include your contact information.

3. Creating Beautiful Learning Materials
Examples of Effective
Resources:
 Create a slide deck using Google Slides
 Create a help guide with Google Docs
 Create a training resource with Google
Drawings
 Create a trainer video

4. Creating Beautiful Learning Materials
Things to remember about the
resources:
 Do not overwhelm the audience with too
much information at once. Limit content to
one idea per slide.
 Make sure that pictures are not competing
with text.
 Use horizontal lines to break up sections
 Use a table of contents
 Be succinct and to the point. Less is more!

5. Training Center
*Promoting an efficient way to use tools
in the classroom
-There are many tools like
Youtube, Blogger, and Google+ and
Drive.
*Creating Support Groups
-Through the use of technology
and many resources teachers can create
support groups to facilitate and enhance
student learning.

6. Support:
Soliciting buy-in and leadership support
School site technology newsletters, with links to blogs, websites, and
resources.
Publicized tech meetings, open to all who wish to participate.
Round-table discussions, with parent-teacher organizations to help
develop a school site plan and goals.
Surveys, identifying wants and needs for professional development for
teachers.
Parent tech-education events, to demonstrate the valuable methods of
instruction taking place in their child’s classroom.
School-wide support models
 Instructional coaches
 School site mentors
 Staff-development workshops

7. There will be times that you will need support from your
colleagues and collaborate to make lesson plans or improve the
teaching in the grade level or department.
The resources that you can use to connect with others could be
the following:
 YouTube
 Google +
 Google Sites
 Blogger
 Hangouts on Air
 Shared folders in Drive