The next artifact I chose to reflect on was my graphic design project. For this project, I created a graphic using Google Drawings. I have used Google Drawings before to have my students submit assignments through Google Classroom, but I have not created a graphic myself. I chose to create a graphic to remind my students that readers should visualize while they read. This graphic is something that I can hang up in my classroom and my students can consistently refer back to it. I plan on using lots of graphics in the future because I teach primary grades. The visuals will help reinforce topics to my students and will be able to quickly capture their attention. I plan on creating more graphics to illustrate how readers use other strategies. For example, I can use the same layout and illustrate a reader asking questions, and stopping to check for understanding. I could then refer back to them during small group instruction to reinforce these behaviors among my students. One of the difficulties with creating this graphic was that it did take a considerable amount of time. I did not use any images that already existed and therefore had to figure out how to create pictures using standard shapes. This helped me follow all copyright guidelines but was at times challenging. I think this would be especially hard for my students. Therefore, it would be important for me to model creating a graphic design multiple times so that they can see that mistakes will be made and that they may have to try multiple things before they are happy with their finished product.
References
Google Drawing (2017). Retrieved from docs.google.com/drawings
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