Create Icons for Learning Resources

Icon that shows that the student activity is to write a small documentation, essay or report e.g. for a learning task

SVG Icon to indicated e.g. Wiki2Reveal presentation

This learning resource supports you in creating icons for Wikiversity articles. Icons can be used indicate

• learning tasks,
• interactive visualisation,
• application of specific software in the learning task (Geogebra constructions, spreadshet documents with sample data, ....) or
• the theoretical background for the learning resource (e.g. the underlying concepts of Linear Regression, that learners are exposed to in the learning task with sample data)

Learning Tasks

• use existing icons in WikiCommons first in the sandbox and try a arrange a standard page for your type of learning resources you want to create for a specific topic,
• Create an Icon in LibreOffice or InkScape and export the icon in SVG,
• Explain, why it is an advantage to export icons in Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) format in comparison to a raster format (e.g. click on the images on the right and scale them). Search a raster image (e.g. PNG format) and scale the image in same way.
• use icons in MediaWiki templates to create a standard structure of visualisations,
• Identify use-cases for icons and describe who they could help learners to find there way through the learning resource.
• See also Inline Icons for Wikiversity Learning Resources and identify how you can use those icons in learning resource you contribute author.

See also

• AppLSAC as web-based offline learning environments which use icons in the same way as the corresponding learning resource
• SVG - Scalable Vector Graphics