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Design....ed
A Creative resource for teachers 2007 |
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Please feel free to e mail new sites that would be good to add to this list.
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Useful Links...
Links to valuable sources of information from on-line Graphics and Design portals
Use these as a source of inspiration or examples of professional work for students to view. It will provide ideas for presentation and development of a variety of design solutions. |
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Identification and synopsis
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Identification and synopsis
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| • Check out this cool design site sent in from Shayne Irvine.
• Celebrate Haythornthwaite local design • Language of Design - Intro to visual elements of design - awesome resource • Jonathan Pickups Podcast pages • An awesome design comp link sent in by Adrienne Kyd at Westlake - check out designboom • Here is a great design web site we have come across. Lots of information about thinking creatively, understanding the design process, making modeling annd materialising, prototyping, and final presentations. • From Philip Mottram...... I was getting tired of seeing so many projects based on Art Deco, I decided to direct my students to something a little more contemporary - like the Memphis style, and came across this collection of interviews - an interesting read. Thanks for the great link. • Fresh form the pen of Shayne Irving - Edgewater College. Check this out a great resource..... Design, Architecture etc • A wonderful typography site ... great for media design and reasons for using different type faces check it out New!! • A cool web site with some amazing student work and portfolio's .... check this out • Looking for a great on-line design magazine. CORE77 • Here is another cool design site try stumbleupon |
....Creativity Links....
How much emphasis do we need to place on fostering creativity in Graphics and technology? What difference does this make to student outcomes? A focus for 2007 will be 'creativity' - Lets see how much information we can find on this important aspect of discovery and creation. download the creative mind and place it on your classroom wall "The most powerful way to develop creativity in your students is to be a role model. Children develop creativity not when you tell them to, but when you show them." • Creativity INDEX - Leslie Owen Wilson • A brilliant link - check this out a speech by Sir Ken Robinson as part of TED talks on Creativity and Schooling. Everyone in your staffroom needs to watch this so download it and be the first in the school to inspire the rest of the teachers this year. Thanks to Philip Mottram of Corrospondence school for sending this link • Creative thinking & critical thinking - valuable resources for improving both |
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