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What Can We Learn From Selfies? ” A selfie is a certain type of self-portrait photography shot with a digital camera or smartphone. Selfies are typically of-the-moment images, require little to no planning, and usually occur in domestic settings such as the bedroom or...

…and ALL teachers teach literacy! Literacy is about understanding the meaning of human codes. Meaning can be conveyed through words, signs or symbols. In the arts, these codes can be written, aural or visual. Literacy in the arts is evident in the way students use the...

    Sometimes the best apps are not on the App Store in the education section.  Check out collage apps!  These little ‘photo organisers’ that function like digital album pages, are usually found on instagram and collections of selfies abound!  Sure, these...

When Hyperallergic shared this great poster from Lauren Purje I had to pass it on… If you liked this, check out this Life Drawing pun…

“What’s the impulse behind art? It’s saying in whatever language is the language of your work, “If I could move you as much as it moved me … if I can move anyone a tenth as much as that moved me, if I can spark the same sense of mystery and awe and surprise as that sparked...

Memes are a great way of communicating an idea with some strong words and a visual.  They are really trending at the moment and ‘meme-maker’ apps are simple and easy to use if you would like to create your own.  We love using them as classroom posters, short email or...

One of the benefits of living in an increasingly connected world is the unprecedented access to resources and information we now enjoy.  In the arts, we can make use of the incredible websites and apps in our classrooms to show students a work that hangs on the wall in a gallery...

In this fascinating post from the Daily Dot, James Elkins, Professor in the Department of Art History, Theory, and Criticism, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, explains how the power of the internet allows us to view works as never before, but asks us to cosider how this...

“We think of great design as art, not science, a mysterious gift from the gods, not something that results just from diligent and informed study. But if every designer understood more about the mathematics of attraction, the mechanics of affection, all design — from houses...

This is one of the key apps that helps me deliver information to my students.  In seconds you can create an beautiful, glossy magazine of images, articles, websites, photos, documents, resources, etc.  Using a tweet, the app displays the content I want to students in a way that...