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If you are looking to be inspired and motivate your students to think and express themselves creatively through visual design, these resources will assist for Mac and iPad users

One of a number of interesting activities that could be offered in a makerspace. In this two-part activity, students design and build Rube Goldberg machines. This open-ended challenge employs the engineering design process and may have a pre-determined purpose, such as rolling a marble into a cup from a distance, or let students decide the purposes.

One of a number of interesting science activities that could be offered in a makerspace. In this two-part activity, students design and build Rube Goldberg machines. This open-ended challenge employs the engineering design process and may have a pre-determined purpose, such as rolling a marble into a cup from a distance, or let students decide the purposes.

"The School Library Designing site site invites you to explore how you can participate in school library designing - and why purposeful school library design is important. "

"An effective website design should fulfill its intended function by conveying its particular message whilst simultaneously engaging the visitor. Several factors such as consistency, colours, typography, imagery, simplicity and functionality all contribute to good website design."

"The dos and don'ts of designing for accessibility are general guidelines, best design practices for making services accessible in government. Currently, there are six different posters in the series that cater to users from these areas: low vision, D/deaf and hard of hearing, dyslexia, motor disabilities, users on the autistic spectrum and users of screen readers."

"The 3 Ds is not a new model for learning design, and it aligns with other inquiry-based learning models designed for deeper learning. However, each D is intentional in being simple, portable, and customizable. Each D could happen synchronously or asynchronously, in person or online. Given the current constraints we're all facing, we encourage you to add your lens to envision how the 3 Ds would look with your learners:"

"Libraries have always been spaces for discovery. But in light of the COVID-19 pandemic, they have been tasked with transforming themselves into places that allow users to physically distance while being more digitally connected than ever. As some institutions emerge from months of shutdowns, design and architecture experts seek to meet current health and safety challenges as well as safeguard these community spaces against an uncertain future."

"Innovative library designs were celebrated this evening when St Joseph's Nudgee College was named the inaugural winner in the schools category of the Library Design Awards 2017."

Alan November challenges the quality of inquiry design and the use of technology. Test your own level of innovation. If you answer no to all Six Questions when evaluating the design of assignments and student work, than chances are that technology is not really being applied in the most innovative ways. The questions we ask to evaluate implementation and define innovation are critical.

"Virtual reality is an immersive tool that allows students to engage in learning in new and exciting ways. In the first article in a three-part series on virtual reality in education, Curriculum Designer Dr Susan O'Donnell and Project Manager Adrian Rayner at VR Learning & Design Hub, Cairns Southern Corridor, explain how virtual reality has been used in many industries and commercial products over decades, why using it comes so naturally to 21st Century learners, and why virtual reality represents exciting learning possibilities for students and teachers alike."

The school library media Web page is a recent development, but as schools, classrooms, and society have become connected to the Internet, media specialists throughout the world are designing and maintaining Web pages for their programs. You will want to begin by fol-lowing some general guidelines for effective Web design, ensuring that your site is easily navigated by all different types of users and viewable in many different browsers.

Exploring design and illustration of children's picture books. We are graphic designers who have always been intrigued and inspired by the wealth of art and writing created for children's books. This site is our forum to display and applaud the brilliance we see in this field. We are here to share with you some of our favorites: the hilarious, the irreverent, the curious, and the stunning.

Galileo Educational Network from Calgary, Alberta. In addition to providing research, resources and professional development on teaching and learning from an inquiry stance, the Galileo Network has also created the Galileo Inquiry Rubric. Designed with purpose of making inquiry more concrete and accessible, the Galileo rubric is intended to be used by teachers in the design and evaluation of inquiry-based teaching.

A comprehensive site on illustration - media, style, design - and picture books including page to screen, banned books, parodies as well as teacher resources..

Guidance on library website design

The need for "deep embedding of the Essential Question (EQ) into the unit design and lessons that make it up. "

"Most online learning experiences are linear and contained. What if we used the vastness of the internet to enrich online learning experiences? One way to do so is to employ a constructivist approach. Constructivism is a learning theory that emphasizes student agency through self-guided exploration, reflection, and evaluation. "

"Make Instruction Transparent for Students For innovative practices like Authentic Learning Experiences, PBL, Design Thinking, and STEM/STEAM, it's important to bring learners inside the instructional circle. This is the traditional space of teachers. It's like learning the magic tricks of the magicians. This approach may put magicians out of business, whereas the work of teachers improves and elevates in quality because students understand what's behind the wizard's curtain."

"Web accessibility makes it easier for people to use the web. It creates a better user experience for a wider audience. It's not just targeted towards people with disabilities."

"Many schools are reimagining the learning spaces that some call libraries or media centers. Carolyn Foote takes us to the center of this trend to take us inside how she redesigned her learning space and the thought process behind it. As you plan your school's strategy, you'll want to have conversations about this show."