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Video Scribe Abstract art is often difficult for students to understand or define, so I created this little clip on the Video Scribe app to help.  It’s a really easy way to create beautiful and engaging presentations that incorporate images, words, music and voice overs.  ...

Here’s a great idea… Take your students to a gallery and let them interact with the sculptures like never before.  We took a group of Year 10s on a walk through a sculpture garden and asked them to use their iPads to photograph the work.  Using their iPads they...

A tessellation is created when a shape is repeated over and over again.  The collection of figures on the plane have no gaps and no overlaps.  Patterns created this way have an incredible mathematical rhythm.  Not only are tessellations fun to create, they can teach students...

Where do you begin the search for art apps for the classroom?  Many websites have some excellent lists and we’ve put some of the best all in once place.   Apps for Art Creative Bloq’s 15 Best iPad apps for sketching and painting App Advice: Apps for the iPhone...

So what makes the iPad such a valuable device in the hands of students?  Here are some quick reflections on the power of the iPad to transform learning in the art room. Students are able to trial processes virtually, using apps that explore techniques and skills with scaffolding...

As an Apple Distinguished Educator I am often asked, ‘Why do you love using the iPad in the classroom?’, and ‘How do iPads enhance Art education?’. To begin to answer these questions I must first point out that I use Visual Art to teach creativity and...

As a teacher in a 1:1 classroom, I have learnt a few things about the iPad in the art room. 1. Apps don’t do the teaching or the learning. Good teachers cannot be replaced by good technology to enhance learning.  The old saying, ‘Teachers teach’ has never been...

The iPad provides us with endless possibilities for innovative teaching and profound potential for learning.  However, the iPad is such a poweful tool that introducing apps and workflows into units requires art teachers to see beyond what the iPad can do, beware of the ‘wow...

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...

My favourite collections of art and artists are Artists Hall, ArtHDDeluxe and Art Authority.  All three are impressive collections ready for students to use in beginning research of movements, time periods or individual artists.  Students can be directed to information that is...