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Pilot experience
The free and humble software program, Microsoft Paint, has been used to create
a huge collage - 28 A4 pages in size.
Here, Carol Rainbow, Primary ICT Advisory Teacher, shares with us this innovative
use and highlights its curriculum applications.
On a recent visit to St Mary's School Chipping Norton I was amazed to see a huge collage of pupil's painting put together to create an image of a local place of historical interest: The Bliss Tweed Mill. There cannot be many people in Oxfordshire who would not instantly recognise the picture so impressive was the reproduction. I was interested in how this teacher had made innovative use of his computer to aid his history and art work.
I think that there are twenty eight pages in the collage but I could not work
out how it was created.
The idea, brainchild of Paul Collect, Year 3 teacher, was to create a scale
drawing of the building. He worked from a set of photographs (just two are included
to give an overview) and created a line drawing of the front face of the building.
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The drawing itself, created as a line drawing in the simple free painting program included with Windows; Paint, was impressive enough but it was how to get the drawing from the size above to wall size in the classroom that I thought was a stroke of genius. Paul increased the image using tools Stretch and Skew in Paint. By entering up to 500% for each increase the picture soon got very large and was then printed onto separate sheets. Michelle Dunn, Paul's TA, then oversaw groups of children during the painting process to make an astounding wall display. |
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The learning objectives covered through this project:
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