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“When you make a film, you usually make a film about an idea.” Sydney Pollack   How can you use iMovie in the classroom? Well, you can use it for just about “…everything from slow motion videography to documentation, to presentations and everything...

Haiku Deck   If you haven’t used Haiku Deck before, this deck will give you some insight into it’s power to produce simply beautiful presentations.  The best thing about Haiku Deck is that you simply type in key words for your presentation and the search engine...

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...

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...

The Foldify app allows you to create a printable ‘origami-style’ 3D model of a work you create. Use your own drawings or photos, or the bits and pieces in the app, to produce a paper masterpiece.  You can combine so many of your own elements in combination with...

‘Let’s Create Pottery’ is a great addition to any ceramics or pottery unit.  The experience of throwing clay on a wheel and moulding a vessel on a spinning turntable is recreated in stunning HD.   Although the muddy mess is gone (and I don’t intend to...

The great thing about the Ukiyoe Printmaking app is the ability for teachers to use it to virtually trial the processes involved in lino cutting or wood block printing. These processes can be hit and miss for some students – once marks are make with cutting tools they are...

The PlayArt app allows students to mix and match elements of famous works by well know artists to create new and interesting compositions. Surrealism is an obvious link, as Monet’s garden blooms with Miro’s mobiles and Van Gogh’s sunflowers are picked by Rousseau’s monkeys. When...