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Creativity, collaboration, movement and a little madness – ingredients for an exciting visual art lesson! While a 1:1 learning environment certainly can have some advantages for learning, shared devices and considered lesson design can provide valuable opportunities for...

This term, we’ve been using Google Earth as part of the visual resources for a unit that challenges students to consider the concept of ‘landscape’. Exploring a variety of ways of seeing and connecting with place and space, using Google Earth as a way to; Engage...

For teaching and learning, the connected camera is an incredible tool, and the Photo Library app adds value that extends far beyond storage space. Using the Photos Library as an ever increasing image resource and a place to review iterations, students can be immersed in a...

We love the possibilities for student content creation using Book Creator, so we were thrilled to be asked to write a post for their blog. While it is really easy to drag and drop images, text and more into the pages of these digital books, a little design ‘know how’...

Animations are easily created on mobile devices. I’ve written some extensive posts with resources, apps and ideas for teachers, and what follows is more suited to teachers who have started to explore stop motion in the classroom. If you’re a begin, you might want to...

    Using Magnification To ‘Make’ I’ve been looking at the art-making potential of the Exo Lab scope over the past couple of weeks. In exploring ideas for the creative classroom, it’s obvious that there is real potential in this device to enhance...

The concept of mixing media is certainly not a new idea in Visual Art, and I am always talking about the value of creative workflows that combine digital tools and traditional art-making products and processes. If tasks and techniques are always separated and labelled...

What Can We Learn From Selfies? ” A selfie is a certain type of self-portrait photography shot with a digital camera or smartphone. Selfies are typically of-the-moment images, require little to no planning, and usually occur in domestic settings such as the bedroom or...