COLORS and EMOTIONS

130 mins All

Objective / Aims

The workshop will introduce the participants how to use different tools to create visuals or presentations. • After the workshop participants: • Will be able to visualize their ideas with different tools. • Will be able to use suitable colors for the designs or presentations. • Will be able to edit pictures with MS PowerPoint. • Will be able to create interesting and well-designed presentations.

Materials/Apps

• Sheets of paper and markers. • Apps, Software, platforms used: Canva, WordArt, MS

Word, MS PowerPoint,

Mentimeter

Space

Space should be prepared for group and individual work. Every team should have at least one computer, everybody should have smartphone. Internet connection. Big screen for projecting in front of the group.

MIX (ANALOGICAL AND DIGITAL) PART. STEP BY STEP. 1st part (40 min)

1. The first activity is to discuss what is the impact of colors? What is your favorite color, what color you do not like? For discussion use color cards, talk about colors meanings and emotions related with colors. Use presentation “Annex-1-Colors”. 2. Individual task – choose 2-3 three main colors, everybody should say, what is comes to his mind with this color. For example, red – red wine, red apple etc. Use Mentimeter word cloud option to collect answers. See Mentimeter manual “Annex-3-Mentimeter”. 3. Individual task – write down word pairs of colors and objects found in the room – grey wall, red apple, white ceiling etc. 4. Work in pairs (teams) – create word cloud from their word pairs. Visualize the results with a word cloud application WordArt https://wordart.com, share the result with others, or download the result and add it to your presentation.

DIGITAL PART. STEP BY STEP. 2nd part (50 min)

1. Take a photo of your phone. How to find colors that match with the image, for example, you want to add text with the color from the image? Use https://www.canva.com/colors/, upload your picture and create color palette. 2. Easy image editing with PowerPoint and how to make your presentation more interesting. Use presentation “Annex-1-Colors”: a. Make title from picture or use picture in your text b. Crop picture c. Remove background d. Make copies of picture, change size

e. Design your own presentation design in MS PowerPoint (use View��Slide Master) f. When the size of your pictures is very big, compress the size of your pictures (Format | Picture Format��Compress Pictures)

DIGITAL PART. STEP BY STEP. 3rd PART (30 min)

1. Make united final presentations of individual pictures and word clouds. You have to organize your work and agree how to share it. 2. Work all together with the final presentation to make it better.

ANALOGIGAL PART. STEP BY STEP. 4th PART (20 min)

1. Discussion – What is the best practice in creating a presentation? Everybody should name at least one criterion. Is the final presentation meeting those criterions? 2. Discuss what have participants learned, what will they use in their everyday work.