tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-297447562011-09-02T06:45:23.033ZICT in Art and Design within education.a fitchetthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12962445743037625813noreply@blogger.comBlogger181100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29744756.post-8636478498072193612007-03-20T16:33:00.000Z2007-03-21T16:43:53.558Z

We had a really hectic but enormously enjoyable day today. I was running a training activity as part of our Apple Regional Training Centre programme, looking at the notion of e-portfolios in art and design. We started by taking photos around the school, exploring the basic elements of art and design such as line, colour, texture etc. We then looked at how to use iPhoto as an organisational tool.

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We were talking about thinking skills at the Learning Group meeting this afternoon. Unfortunately I had not been at the last meeting and hence had missed out on the decision to trial a variety of different thinking skills tasks within classes. Nevertheless it struck me that the Year 11 task I was blogging about earlier fits into this realm quite well. Having watched the students grapple with the

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I’m really pleased with the work being produced by my Digital Arts year 11 classes. We’ve been doing some work on text and image cropping, partly inspired by the old Blue Note jazz record sleeves, and partly by the Tomato company’s work on the Underworld ‘mmm skyscraper I love you’ album of , oooh, too many years ago to bear thinking about. The focus on text use was also in direct response to

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Sorry, little bit of a techie post this one, but if you are a Flickr user and have not yet tried the Flock browser, can I urge you to do so? I love it!  It is a terrific tool to use if you regularly post images to Flickr, or browse images from your Flickr contacts or groups. It's also a very good blogging tool and integrates well with del.icio.us. Plus it handles rss feeds better than any browser

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I read this today and thought it made a lot of sense...

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Really interesting software currently in development is this: xcavator by Cognisign - Better photo sharing and photo cataloging. Having spent several days trying to properly organise my own image library of nearly ten thousand images, any way of being able to intelligently search through the database is welcomed with open arms.The exercise has also made me realise that there is no longer any

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Nice to see people picking up the Flickr baton and running with it :-) Richard and Sadie are running a course titled Flickr in Art and Design - Primary and Secondary at Great Mooor House on 14th September 2006. Full details here. Meanwhile, I'm hoping to get a 'how to' podcast of accessing/using Flickr done over the holidays. It's on my sizeable to-di list....

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There was a bit of discussion on a one to one basis yesterday during the Photoshop part of the ICT Art Textiles course about having ‘how to’ instructions written down. I know Tony has provided some of that information on the resources CD that was available to the workshop attendees, but I’ve been thinking for a while about how much more useful videos of work in practice would be. I played with

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I thought it was fascinating when Phil talked yesterday at the end of the event about the fact that, even before we had concluded the plenary for the day’s work, all the attendees Art was already published and available for anyone to see on the Web. That kind of instant, public display of Art is something that really excites me. I think it excites a lot of young people too. Certainly from my

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The domain name redirection is finally sticking. So from now on, going to www.ictinart.com or www.ictinart.co.uk will take you direct to this blog. Hurrah!

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The Photoshop activity today was really interesting. There was a pretty wide range of experience levels amongst the attendees, which mirrored the kind of spread you might expect to get in a class of children. We introduced them to some fairly simple techniques within Photoshop, aiming to get across principles of layering, adjusting, cutting, pasting etc. I often find that people struggle

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We started today running the same kind of activities as the workshop in January. The Yann Arthus Bertrand and Earth From The Air websites were our inspiration; we made very quick thumbnail drawings from the images, looking at the shapes and forms from the aerial photographs. These sketches then formed the basis for monoprints and glueless collages which were photographed as digital source

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We had a look quickly at this blog, and sent out invitations for the participants to join in as contributors. Time alone will tell if it will prove useful! Hopefully it will… I’m interested to see how easy it will be for people to contribute and collaborate on this blog, particularly since we’re working with a diverse group of people with a wide range of experience with ICT in general, and Web

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We looked at the cut and paste and Sean Hillen websites as a reference point for the start of the project. The idea was to use the daily newspapers as a starting point for creating a piece of photo-montage work using digital photos. These digital photos could be from the newspapers themselves (taking a digi photo of the page is quicker than scanning and keeps all your source images at the same

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Clyst Vale have been using the ideas from the first workshop back at the start of January with GCSE students to develop final pieces for their Natural Form module. There was lots of exciting and interesting images in students sketchbooks where they had used digital photos. There was some comment about how students sketchbook and development work was free and exciting, but tightened up when

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New ICT in Art workshops happening today at Tiverton High School. Not sure if I've had the time to prepare things properly, what with the GCSE marking going on at the moment, and all of our dept crises etc, but we shall see.

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