The concept of mixing media is certainly not a new idea in Visual Arts, however across curriculum areas in schools technology and ‘digital tasks’ are often separated from the ‘hands-on’ learning opportunities. In many classrooms and studio space even mobile devices, perceived as...
Our Year 7 students created some many amazing monsters using the Daily Monster app I blogged about some of the work and the learning happening in the classroom – check out the post here if you missed it. I was so excited when Stefan Bucher, the ‘Monster Maker’...
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...
Note to teachers: iMovie makes creating short films easy! iMove is a powerful creative tool for teaching and learning. You can use it for a myriad of applications, such as digital storytelling, narrative, documenting experiences, reflecting on learning…and so much more. ...
Gorgeous, surreal 360-degree landscapes by Randy Scott Slavin are inspirational. Technically difficult and brilliantly executed, this kind of imagery has been out of reach for most novice photographers, but there is an app that can create a little of this manipulation magic....
The art of Andy Goldsworthy inspires countless opportunities for students to engage with the environment in art-making, but here we present a lesson seed for creating art that merges nature and digital production. Lesson Content: Andy Goldsworthy and the work of land artists...
This collection of resources is all about the diverse lessons you can create to teach contour drawing for an understanding of line, outline, form, space, and many other visual devices and tools for art-making. What is contour drawing? A contour is the line which defines a form or...
Looking for a new way to create engaging presentations or a tool to collate pieces and sections of information visually? Want an interesting way to explain a process or deliver step-by-step instructions? What about a visual way for students to record a learning journey or...
WordFoto This simple app allows students to create exciting imagery from photographs and text. Simply enter the words or sentence you would like to use, adjust the fonts, colours and a host of other design elements…the app does the rest. It’s a great visual...
The 4th Teacher Professional Development Day at the Queensland College of Art (Gold Coast) was my first real introduction to 3D printing. We had the opportunity to explore some software for creating and rendering images and then the big moment…making a ‘real’ 3D...
