We use a plastic frame that can be screwed onto a tripod, which will hold the iPad parallel with a table - then students create animations on the table using apps such as I Can Animate, iStop motion or Stop Motion. Stop frame animation is so easy to do on iPads, and great fun.On school trips and visits get the students to create podcasts or films, perhaps with interviews, reflections, information about the place, events, objects, activities etc.Find a picture of a famous artist such as Van Gogh and use an app such as Crazy Talk or Morfo to transform the image into a talking, 3D character who discusses the key features of their work.We use a plastic frame and tripods to keep the ipads steady while filming. Having seen a stop frame animation of the Bayeux Tapestry, we combined year 7 Art and History lessons to create their own version - using Comic Life on iPads to do the initial storyboarding and scripting, then shooting cut paper animations on the iPads. Youtube can be a fantastic source of inspiration. Apps such as Comic Life can be a lively alternative to research in sketchbooks - presenting and reflecting on one’s work using a comic book structure.One student recently produced an entire GCSE photography submission from her mobile phone, taking the photographs and displaying them with comments and links as a blog. Use devices to create supporting evidence for examinations.Cut and paste montage is really very simple to do on tablets, and the effects can be fantastic - making posters on issues, creating surrealistic art, and just having fun.Students who are not too keen on sketching and making notes might be really keen to take lots of photographs record their thoughts and observations, then create a slideshow with voiceover. Use the camera rather (or as well as) a sketchbook to record a day out to galleries, the zoo, etc.You could make a new grid layer over the image to help with proportions. The image could be printed, and cut in half, then one side drawn and the other left as a photo, or it could be drawn directly from the device. Take a selfie and then use this as the basis for a drawn self-portrait.As an extension, duplicate the face layer, add a gaussian blur filter, then rub back through to reveal details of the sharp image such as eyes, mouth and teeth The Photo Booth app will do it automatically and it provides endless hours of hilarity. Take a selfie, cut it in half, and flip it to make a symmetrical face.You could get pupils to hold the camera only horizontally so they record only what is above or below - sticking all these photographs together makes for a great photo quilt! Alternatively students could look for circles, faces, letters of the alphabet, the colour blue… there are many verities on this theme which encourages mindful photography. When taking photographs, perhaps going on ‘photo walks’ add constraints.Here are some of Ross's suggestions for art activities which work especially well with a smartphones and tablets. To have a small but powerful camera attached to a small but powerful computer, running a mind boggling selection of apps, all cleverly designed to enhance and distort the captured image - this power is awesome.' 'The iPhone sparked a revolution in photography - there is even a word for it - iPhoneography. He is a great enthusiast for using technology in the art room. Ross is Head of the Arts Faculty at Sidcot School, an independent Quaker boarding school in Somerset. Playing with images, creating animations, filming and gaming can be just that - playful, and fun and creative. 'Screens tend to suck people in,' says Ross Wallis, ‘and people become addicted, but these very traits can be put to good use.’ My aim is that all my students should want to create, not for me, but for themselves, and computers can play a really positive role. They say a picture is worth a thousand words and certainly art can sometimes reach children who experience little academic success at school.
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