[senit] Write your own art software in SLD

This is not so easy, but a lot of fun http://www.mrpicassohead.

Write your own art software in SLD

I'd like to complement and endorse Geoff's stance but prefer and  
recommend SVG which is an open web standard. one that is being  
maintained and will integrate well with social networking in the future.

regards

Jonathan Chetwynd
Accessibility Consultant on Media Literacy and the Internet

On 18 Nov 2007, at 11:36, Geoff Dellow wrote:

I feel sad that I react without enthusiasm to the replies to this  
enquiry.

I realise that I keep repeating myself but with Flash you can design  
many of these pieces of software yourselves. A much superior version  
of the picassohead for instance can easily be designed with Flash.  
( I realise with you all time is what holds you back)

The big advantage is that the student and the teacher can then go in  
and change the template to their own liking and thus gain the  
satisfaction of having created something themselves and not just used  
someone else's ideas.

How much more fun is it to to go into a template that duplicates  
picasso and be able to change or add your own designs of mouth eyes -  
make them blink make the mouth open and close.

What many have not really understood, I suspect, is that Flash is  
software that can be used to write new software which with the ones  
I've designed, I call templates.

What you could be doing as a group is start writing software to suit  
your particular needs then others in the future could adapt them and  
improve them.

You the teachers could be in charge of the design of the software you  
use. Furthermore your students could use it to create new work to the  
extent of their abilities and even beyond this they could start  
teaching and enthusing other students without the teacher being  
involved.

I know this is possible because I've been there while it happens at  
Ethel Davies special needs school in Redbridge.

Now for the punch line - Flash 4 which used to cost some £300 in 1998  
(to web site designers) is absolutely free now.

  It is no longer under licence - we had word from Alex Moore of  
Adobe UK to say that their Corporation is now longer interested in it!

What an opportunity!

And I'm here ready to teach you how to use it again  for free -  
several of your members have already had my lessons and have/are  
enjoying them and are actively creating new projects for the rest of  
you to use.

For the latest project I'm involved with  -  see http://tygh.co.uk/ 
christmas which includes  on-line tutorials and free templates which  
you can download

Geoff
On 16 Nov 2007, at 13:27, Mandy Griffin wrote:

> This is not so easy, but a lot of fun http://www.mrpicassohead.
> com/create.html
>
> Not tried this myself, but its on our VLE http://www.accessart.org.
> uk/colour/index.php
>
>
> ----Original Message----
> From: MHarrison at portland.ac.uk
> Date: 16/11/2007 12:49
> To: <senit at lists.becta.org.uk>
> Subj: RE: [senit] art software in SLD
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> That's the best site ever!
>
> Matt
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> Try www.jacksonpollock.org
>
> Adults have a lot of fun too....
>
> ----Original Message----
> From: deborah.moppett at dsl.pipex.com
> Date: 15/11/2007 22:42
> To: <senit at lists.becta.org.uk>
> Subj: Re: [senit] art software in SLD
>
> Hi David,
> We are now using Tuxpaint which is an open source program, very easy
> to
> use and some nice features, like being able to create your own stamps
> e.g. of pupils photographs etc.
> It can be found at :-
> www.tuxpaint.org
> It is a popular piece of software amongst the students.
> Deborah Moppett
> Harlow Fields School
>
> david fettes wrote:
>> hi can anyone say a bit about how they use art
>> software in SLD schools?
>> thanks
>> David
>>
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