An alternate view

Wow, very interesting. Maybe gaming aint that bad people...

12 Canoes Resource

I was watching Message Stick on the ABC this morning about the broadband website 12 Canoes

A beautiful site with an accompanying PDF education kit.

Check it out, share it in the classroom, pass it on...

Inspiration

Where I live...

Where I live definitely serves as inspiration for the art I do...and I try to get my students to also appreciate their own surroundings, and communicate ideas about their natural environment in their artworks

 

Print Criticism

Print criticism (1989)

An interesting article by Christopher Allen on print criticism - the art critic responding to printmaking in a different way to how the critic may respond to criticism of other forms.

What distinguishes print criticism from criticism in general? I suppose it’s essentially the fact that you have to take account of the different or the specific qualities of the medium or rather many different media because, as we know, and [as] we’ve seen today too, there are many different techniques and media involved in printing, and combinations, re–uses; re–readings of those techniques today...

The social media revolution

Ahhhhh, 

The social media revolution

I'm not sure what I think of it all to be honest...

Yes, my students are mostly all digital natives. 

Yes, I use these technologies regularly (am doing so now)

Yes, I am often surprised at how much my students know about technology and how to use it.

Yes, I am often surprised at my own ignorance, although I am lucky not to have too much trouble keeping up with it all. 

As for the statistics of the video, it does alert me to the highly-tuned ICT knowledge of my students, and I need to incorporate such understandings into my own lessons. I do hope however, that sophisticated traditional skills and knowledge of visual arts are not lost in the speediness of all of this.

Wish me luck.

'Word Up' - 4D digital media workshop.

So, first blog for Ms Leaney...

Ms Leaney attended a DET digital media workshop on Friday, and a very valuable experience it was too. Practical ideas are always lapped up with relish and this little movie was made within an hour or so. Whilst a little brief, somewhat sinister and quite reliant on the use of effects, Ms Leaney became very obsessed with this little piece and didn't want to stop working on it. She absolutely can't wait to try it on year 7s...

 

The unit 'Word Up' was developed by Deborah Cave, and draws from the work of Grant Stevens' Why the Long Face? 2005 digital video from the Kaldor Public Art Projects 'Move' series. The image and text below is from the website (see: http://www.kaldorartprojects.org.au/education/move-stevens.asp)

 

Grant Stevens, Why The Long Face? 2005, digital video, 4.11 mins, ratio:4:3 © Grant Stevens 2005

Words, rhyme and meaning are putty in the hands of Grant Stevens. Like a sculptor of textual fabric, Stevens takes pictures, words and speech and twists them into a shifting field of double entendres, wordplays and sound grabs. His stuff is the cliché of modern life, the slogans and sound bytes that constantly surround us and which are repeated so often that they lose any meaning that they might have had...

Ok, here now for my piece. Garage Band, I-Photo and I-Movie were used to put together a series of stills of signage from around the school... 

Thank you Wendy for a wonderful day!!!