Year 11 pupils at Newfield School have just finished their GCSE art project to design a stamp. The designs were based around children’s stories, and were completed in a larger format before being scanned into the computer and reduced in Photoshop. I think you’ll agree the final results are stunning.
A useful website for anyone considering a career in children’s book illustration is this blog: An Illustrator’s Life for Me. It is written by a children’s book illustrator and talks about all aspects of her work.
There are hundreds of new applications appearing on the web every day, but it’s not often you find one that ticks all the boxes for educational use. Glogster is such a one. Here you can create your own “Glogs”, essentially a poster with images, text, video, web links and sound. There is a large choice of backgrounds, types of text boxes, video players etc, to make it a very personal piece of work.
Perhaps most importantly, you can sign up for an educational account, where you can create up to 200 student accounts, and all Glogs can be seen by everyone in your class, but no-one else. There is the option to send messages via the site, which could be used for peer review (and since the teacher can see exactly who is sending what, there shouldn’t be any abuse of the system).
These Glogs would be perfect for presenting information in any subject and key stage, particularly for Modern Languages (reading, writing, listening and speaking all in one project), History (document a historical event, do mock interviews with the key people), Geography (project on the local area, with interviews, photographs etc.), English (interesting ways or presenting information, both spoken and written), Art (could be used in the planning stages of a piece of work, with sketches, commentary, links to artists). It is also a great way to document a field trip or visit.
To see a glog I created about the CLC, click here.
Update – Large video files take a while to appear in the Video box once you have uploaded them, so do be patient.
Please be patient – it may take a couple of seconds for the video to start playing.
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Two year 10 classes from Abbeydale Grange School spent a number of weeks creating their own animated films during their art lessons. They used I Can Animate software on the Apple Macbooks to film the animation, then iMovie to edit the footage into a film. The students enjoyed creating their animations, but most of the pupils found moving the chracters and props really hard and they now have an appreciation for how long it takes to create an animated film.
This is a very simple site. Upload your image to the page and you can resize, crop, add text and add a number of effects, then save back to your documents.
You need to sign in (which is free) to this site. It does similar things to Wiredness, but you can also add speech bubbles, merge photos and add a few more effects.
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