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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.  ...

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...

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...

Creating mandalas can be an engaging way for students to explore radial designs, symmetry and patterns in visual art.  The effect of colour on design and the influence of line are made explicit.  Connections can be made to the process of abstraction – this is an easy way to...

Using the iPad can be a great way for students to engage with the process of abstraction.  It is often difficult for art teachers to encourage students to make the leap from producing representational pictures to considering challenging compositions that do not rely on subject...

Enjoy this ever-growing collection of photography where raw images and the app-ified works exhibited alongside each other.  These ‘before and after’ shots give insight into the powerful tools for manipulation the iPad can provide.

“Explore the surprising side of color with Color Uncovered, an interactive book that features fascinating illusions, articles, and videos developed by the Exploratorium.  How is Monet like a honeybee? What color is a whisper? Why is it so hard to find your car in a lamp-lit...

“Sketchnotes are a visual form of note-taking that can include drawings, various lettering sizes and styles, color, icons, arrows, boxes and more — whatever works for you.” Here are three engaging apps from Susan Oxnevad that allow students to integrate sketches,...