Presentation Preparation…

Today was spent sorting out our presentation for Friday, we spent a lot of time sorting out ho we wanted the GUI to look. We constantly referred to what we’d been told by the teachers and teaching assistants, in reference to simplicity, language, colours, recognizable symbols etc.

Here’s the layout we decided on, who knew cutting and sticking could be so much fun!!

To explain it:

Colours	We’re sticking to bright, fun, lively colours to hopefully attract and keep the attention of the children.
Font	This is the Nelson font which the children at Boringdon are familiar with seeing everyday. we decided to use this rather than arial for instance is because we hope the children will find it easy to read and instantly recognizable. We’ve been told continuity is very important for young children, so we hope this will help.
Layout	We were concerned at the size of the drawing panels, we weren’t sure they were big enough, or not big enough. So we spoke to Mrs John who seemed confident that the size we have them at will be fine. So we’ve taken her advice and stuck with them as they are.
Language	We still need to sort out how we’re going to ask the questions, this is an example of a question though.
Icons	We were concerned last week that the children may not recognise such symbols as the play triangle, or the red cross for closing an application. However when we observed the IT lesson it became clear the children were already very familiar with such simple symbols, and us using them wouldn’t be ill advised.