BSEE111

CONTRUCTION OF LAS AND SIM

Workbook

 Cover Page
 Title Page
 Copyright Page
 Table of Contents
 Background Information
 Content
 Enrichment
 Summary
 Reference/s
 Back Cover

Font style: Times New Roman, Arial

(Violator logo) - Font size: 11” Alignment: Top-left, 28 TABLE OF CONTENT PAGE
degree rotated
Table of Contents
(Grade Identifier) - Font size: 50-80” Box Size: 3.8cm x
3.8cm or 1.5in by 1.5in White background  Font Type – K to 3: Century Gothic except question
mark
(Workbook Title) - Font size: 48-72” Color: CMYK  Font Size – 16-18 pt bold
Alignment: Center  Other Details – Alignment: center
(Resource Identifier) - Font size: 14-24” Heading (e,g. Unit I)
(Author) - Font size: 15”  Font Type – Grades 4 to 12: Arial, Time New Roman
(DepEd Identifier) - Font size: 15” Box  Font Size – 14-16 pt bold
 Other Details – With dot leader

Heading 2 (e,g. Lesson 1)

 Font Type – Grades 4 to 12: Arial, Time New Roman

 Font Size – 12-14 pt
 Other Details – With dot leader

Heading 3 (e,g. Activity 1)

 Font Type – Grades 4 to 12: Arial, Time New Roman

 Font Size – 11-12 pt
 Other Details – With dot leader

BACK COVER SPECIFICATION

Feedback Note

 Font Type – Arial

 Font Size – 12 pt
 Other Details – Inside rounded rectangle
Border: Solid black, 1.5 pt
Background color: Contrasting the cover
design
Font Color: Contrast to background color
Position: center vertical alignment
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Important Points in the Development of the Strategic
Intervention Material (SIM)
COPYRIGHT PAGE
 There must be congruency in the activities to the
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learning competency and objectives.
Name of Copyright Holders, Copyright Year  Activities shall be short, simple and attainable.
 Activities shall be varied to cater the learning style
 Font Type –Arial
of the learners.
 Font Size – 12 pt
 The language to be used can be easily understood
 Other Details – Center by the target learners.
Copyright Notice  The LR shall be light, durable and easy to
reproduce.
 Font Type –Arial
 Font Size – 8-12 pt Things to Consider in Developing Content of Learning
 Other Details – Justify Materials

Development Team 1. All contents in the SLM are accurate.

2. The SLM is free from computational errors.
 Font Type –Arial 3. The SLM has free from factual errors.
 Font Size – 8-12 pt 4. Vocabulary must be appropriate to the target user’s
level of comprehension and experience.
INTRODUCTION PAGE
5. Length and structures of sentences in the SLM are
Introduction suited to the comprehension level of the target users.
6. The SLM is free from any social content violations.
 Font Type –Arial
 Font Size – 14 pt bold SOCIAL CONTENT GUIDELINES
 Other Details – Center
 Reaffirm fundamental human rights, dignity, and
INTRODUCTION PAGE CONTENT worth of the human person, and equal rights of
children, men and women.
Title Cards
GENDER/SEXUAL ROLES
 Font Type – Century Gothic: K to G3/Arial: G4 to G12
 Font Size – 24-28 pt bold  Any portrayal of gender issues in approved learning
 Other Details – Left Alignment with simple resource should be relevant to the curriculum for
background which the learning resource is being considered, and
appropriate for the age level of the intended
Introductory Statement and Introduction/s audience.
 Font Type – Century Gothic: K to G3/Arial: G4 to G12 Consider:
 Font Size – 14-16 pt for K to G3/ 10-12 pt for G4 to
G12  Whether portray of the sexes is balanced
 Other Details – May not be indented. May use Icons:  Whether diverse roles and relationships are portrayed
refer to Visual Arts Management  Whether contributions, experiences and perspectives
of various individuals and groups are acknowledged
Activities
 Whether tone and language are appropriate (sexist,
 Font Type – Century Gothic: K to G3/Arial/Arial abusive, and/or derogatory reference to gender are
Black/Calibri/Century Gothic: G4 to G12 avoided)
 Font Size – 14-16 pt for K to G3/ 10-12 pt for G4 to Parity Between Men and Women/ Girls and Boys
G12
 Other Details – With  Men and women, girls and boys shown in both text
pictures/illustrations/graphs/tables/etc. Note: refer to and illustrations
Visual arts management  In all parts of the learning resource (lessons, exercises,
activities, etc.
Pagination
 In the casting of “hero” figures and minor figures
 Font Type – Century Gothic/Arial  Position and size of character in illustrations
 Font Size – 14 pt  In presenting or referring to well-known figure in field
 Other Details – Mirror Pagination such as politics, sports, science, arts, etc.

Introduction contains the purpose of the SIM, Learning Recognition that Language Should be Gender-Fair
Competency and Code, Contextualized Objectives; Brief
instructions on how to use the material
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 Guidelines from National Council of Teachers of  Narrate a person’s accomplishments and virtues;
English (NCTE) refrain from deifying or unduly extolling them.
 While the Filipino language is more gender fair (ikaw,
Citizenship and Social Responsibility
ako, tayo sila), the English language may assign nouns
and pronouns only to males (e.g. chairman,  Avoid humiliating statements towards persons with
policeman, mankind, etc. instead of chairperson, disability. Do not use their impairment to throw funny
police officer, humankind, etc.) story or joke. Do not use persons with disability as a
subject of caricature. Do not label them as beggars or
Language
as liabilities of society.
 The language used must not vulgar, profane,
Health and Safety
offensive, sexually suggestive, derogatory, or
demeaning of a person.  Promote healthy and safety standards and
precautions.
Violence
 Portrayals, or references to food and beverages,
 Learning resources should not contain or depict any promote proper nutrition and avoid featuring junk
violent scenes or actions, depict the use of force as food and their enjoyment.
routine, or imply that force or violence is or foster it as  Reflect good safety practice in texts and visuals
a desirable means of resolving conflicts and problems,
ILLUSTRATION AND LAYOUTS
or show excessive, gory, and bloody images.
Technical Specifications for Illustrations
Vices
1. Illustrations shall face toward the page gutter.
 The learning resource should not contain illustrations
2. Illustrations shall not be divided into two (2) pages or
of vices such as gambling or betting suggestive that
placed in between the gutter of the learning resource.
these activities are good or desirable.
3. Scanned illustration shall be saved in JPEG, PNG or TIF.
Advertisement 4. Illustrations shall use line-art in single color
(preferably black) and there shall be no shading effect
 Learning resource should not advertise or promote
other than hatching, cross hatching and stipple
products that are not appropriate for children or that
shading.
may cause harm to them.
5. Illustrations shall be near to the actual size of the
 Should not have commercial brand names and
requirement of the writer
corporate logos
 Should not incorporate any form of commercial
solicitation and advertisement.

Race, Ethnicity, and Culture

 Avoid inaccurate, unnecessary, or inappropriate

portrayal of or reference to the physical appearance,
cultural customs, social classes, symbols, observances,
festivals, dress, names, or language of any ethnic
group or nationality.
 Foster attitudes of inclusivity, acceptance,
understanding, and appreciation for diverse cultures,
sectors and groups in society

Religion

 Ensure that any appropriate references to religious

groups are accurate and authentic within the setting Illustration should face in a way that it won’t look like it’s
and/or period of history presented. going to fall off the page.
 Use religious references, symbols, celebrations, and
language free of bias. Never place the image in between the gutter

Role Models 6. Enlarging and resizing a raster illustration shall not be

 Role models come from a variety of places, times,
context, and gender, and are of different ages. Choose
persons of exceptional and acknowledged
accomplishment or virtue regardless of their racial,
ethnic, cultural, or political origin or affiliation.
more than once.
7. A right balance between filled and empty space, and
the proportion of illustration to text shall be created.
8. Cropping in the joints like neck, shoulder, knee and
elbow shall be avoided.
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9. Illustrations and visuals shall be attractive and
appealing.
10. Illustrations and visuals shall sustain consistency of
style, color, size and angle throughout the manuscript.
In doing cuts/cropping – avoid all joints at all cost.
jpeg – Joint Photographic Experts Group, most common
image format (usually for photos)
png – Portable Network Graphics, can compress
photographic files without lowering the quality of your
image. Good for transparent backgrounds

a. Neck tif/tiff – Tagged Image File Format, remain uncompressed

b. Shoulders and also contain detailed image data (due to which the
c. Elbow files are of quite large size)
d. Wrist
dpi – Dot-Per-Inch. Basically, the image resolution.
e. Waist
f. Knees psd layered file – Photoshop file. Can easily edit images
g. Ankles with the availability of different layers in the image.
11. Illustrations shall be correct, original, realistic, simple, svg – Scalable Vector Graphics. Good for animations.
clear and recognizable.
raster illustration – dot matrix data structure that
12. Illustrations and visuals shall be properly labelled and represents a genera ly rectangular grid of pixels
captioned.
Remember:
13. Illustrations shall have appropriate and complete
details such as color. Maximum range per module is 20-32 pages.

14. For K to 3, illustrations of people, animals, places and Less is better.

objects shall be complete. To avoid blank pages in printing, make the maximum no.
15. Illustrations and visuals shall be original. Permit to use of pages divisible by 8.
copyrighted illustrations and visuals shall be secured COMMON ERRORS IN ILLUSTRATIONS AND LAYOUT
before using it.
Illustration erros
16. Illustrations shall not be a modification of an
illustration from another source.  Incomplete art
 “Floating art”
17.The use of photocopied, scanned published  Distorted features
illustrations, screen captured illustrations are prohibited.  Unnecessary art
18. Flatbed scanner shall be used for manually drawn  Wrong proportion
illustration.  Mix of styles on a page
 Wrong size
19. Manually drawn-illustration shall be scanned in 300 to  Vague art
600 dpi in actual size to capture all the details of the  Wrong choice of illustrative material to use
illustration and to produce quality scan.
Layout errors
20. Illustrations shall be framed only when necessary.
Thinner lines shall be used for the frames than that of the  Poor visual hierarchy of headings
illustrations.  Wrong placement of art in relation to text
 Overuse of icons and unclear icons
21. Local pictures and artworks shall be validated and
 Boxy design
approved by the ethnic community.
 Lack of unified look
22. Texts that are superimposed in the illustration shall be  Lack of white space (“breathing space”)
spelled out.

23. Callouts shall be used to emphasize important parts of

the illustration.

24.Brief, consistent, and relevant file name shall be used

to save similar artwork files in one manuscript.

25. Digital illustration shall be saved in PSD layered file,

SVG, JPEG, PNG or TIF

Some terms to remember

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CITATION, AND COPYRIGHT ISSUES IN UTILIZING THIRD-
PARTY MATERIALS

Can I use any material on the internet? NO.

Are there resources that I can use? YES.

COPYRIGHT, FAIR USE, PUBLIC DOMAIN

Copyright

What is copyright? – It is a collection of all rights enjoyed

by the owner of an artistic or literary work.

Fair use

What is “fair use”? – The fair use of a copyrighted work for

criticesm, comment, news, reporting, teaching including
multiple copies for classroom use, scholarship, research
and similar purposes is not an infringement of copyright.

Public Domain

The terrm “public domain” refers to creative materials

that are not protected by intellectual property laws such
as copyright, trademark, or patent laws. The public owns
these works, not an individual author or artist. Anyone can
use a publick domain work without obtaining permission,
but no one can ever own it.