Multicultural considerations

Presentations47 provides instructions and ideas for creating great power point presentations. Cmaps is an open source Mindmapping48 tool used at the centre to illustrate non-linear thoughts and processes. Worldclouds49 are fast ways to convey results of brainstorming sessions or survey responses and standard graphing tools can accurately demonstrate trends and other data relevant to the session content. Refer to either of the following links for possible ideas: http://www.visual-literacy.org/periodic_table/periodic_table.html or http://www.exploratree.org.uk/explore/templates.php. More information on Graphic facilitation techniques can be found in under Graphic Facilitation on page 69.

Developing learning materials checklist Since developing learning materials may be a costly task here are some questions which is good to address before starting to develop materials are:

Is it clear to which learning objective this material will be linked to? Is the material to be developed clearly linked to a learning activity that supports also the learning objective identified before? Do you know what contents you will to use? Which types of media do you want/need to use for your materials? Text? Audio? Video? How are you going to deliver the materials? Via Mail? Via web? Via CD? Printed? Do these materials exist already? Is there a need to develop new content? Who will do this? What is the effort we can put into developing new materials? Do we have providers we can trust for this purpose? Will this material have to be translated? To how many languages? Is this material “good” in terms of language or will it need to be reviewed?

Carefully considering these questions will allow the team in charge of the course to assess its capacity to have the material ready in time and within budget.

Available tools, support and processes The centre has all the available resources for the development of learning materials. Hardware, software and support are available for all activities to develop text, audio video

47 See the Presentation fiche here: http://www.box.net/shared/blopy6890m 48 See the Mindmapping fiche here: http://www.box.net/shared/h7f4mjcz93 49 See the Social Bookmarking fiche here: http://www.box.net/shared/fo08xubb76