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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...

“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...

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...

When I began teaching Visual Art, animation was a subject that was taught by a technology teacher at our school – it was pretty specialised stuff. The intricacies of using the massive animation suites and high-end programs, combined with the fact that our art rooms...

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.  ...

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...

If you have ever lived with another person and come home to find them in a bad mood, how long did it take you to figure it out? Hours? Minutes? Seconds? Most people say “seconds,” and some can tell before they even enter the same room. That’s how children feel...

See the creative process in living colour!  Check out this gallery to watch this Year 6 drawing, created as part of a ‘Mythical Monsters’ unit, transform into spectacular experimental abstractions and more.  Using workflows, students grapple with the creative process...

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...