ISTE 2018 - Learn to create some pretty sweet graphics

Presenter: Manuel Harrera

This was another session that Kiri and I attended together. The most valuable part of choosing to do sessions together was the follow up conversations we had immediately after relating to how we can use the learning with our own students. We have many students this year who are highly skilled graphic artists and I am very much looking forward to sharing my learning from this session with them. Below are my notes.

• Creativity is a process - not just choosing the go to app (ref to slide 2)
• Sketch to visualise thinking - communicate without speaking to each other
• Adobe capture in iPad saves your data
• Canvas slide - saves colour pallet - has image sizes
• Insert word art allows for automatic resize of text
• Google search font pairings
• Vector art can be scaled from any size - doesn’t blur or pixelate
• Use Instagram template to create bio for historical leader etc
• Use polyline in google draw to create shape for vector art
• Remove outline - colour fill - send to back
• Repeat process for each shape - layer
• Innovation Exchange 
• Change canvas using pixel measurements
• Add graphics
• File - download png
• If wanting sticker cld send design to sticker mule
• App design storyboard 
• All drawings are done in slides too
• Gif animation - draw peanut jar - find png arms on image search - upload each movement snapshot to google photos - assistant in google photos creates animation gif
• Sound = shrink YouTube clip down to smallest size to hide but can hear

Creativity in LS2...

This term our Manaiakalani staff meeting reminded us about the importance of creativity in learning. Miki and Josh used their creative skills to create this image for the title page of a DLO they are in the process of creating. 

The DLO is at the moment a work in progress but when I saw what they had done so far I wanted to share it because I think it is a great example of creativity. Miki and Josh are happy for me to share their work and emailed me this to add to my blogpost:

'We are creating an animation about the muscular system. This is a Google Presentation and we used different shapes and lines to create an arm which shows you our muscles. We have used the same drawing of the arm muscles to create a GIF that shows what our muscles look like when we move our arms on the next slide. To get it to look like this we tested some shapes and lines to try to make it look real.' - Miki and Josh

I am looking forward to seeing their finished DLO because the language the boys used when they were explaining to me how they have used lines and shapes to show how the muscular system works was rich and really showed the deep learning that has taken place.