Making Badges
This ICT starter idea written by teachers, for teachers, describes
how a student could use digital images to design and create badges
for students, friends, or family.
Curriculum reference
- Technology – looking at the design process
- Visual art – the language of photography, combining images
- Visual language – looking at photographs, using images and/or
text to convey messages
- ICT
Prerequisites
To be able to get images into a computer (scanner or camera, or
existing graphics) and adjust them as required.
Resources
- Digital camera or scanner
- Connection to the Internet is useful
- Drawing program
- Image manipulation program (suggest graphic converter/Photoshop)
- Printer
Possible context
- Me unit – year beginning
- Identity badges
- Celebrating an occasion
- Fund raiser
- Fathers Day or Mothers Day, etc.
Suggested process
- Take your photo or make your image.
- Improve it if you need to (for example, adjust brightness/contrast,
take out parts, text, etc.).
- For printing purposes, it may be helpful to put more than one
image on one page.
- Cut and fix images to the badges. Badge makers can be hired
from teacher resource centres, or images can be laminated and
fixed to safety/badge pins on the back.
Other suggestions
The same process can be used to create magnets.
Authors
Rob Clarke robclarke@xtra.co.nz
Janet Ackerley room4@richmond.school.nz
Claire Riches claire.riches@fendalton.school.nz
Justin Perriam room3@roydvale.school.nz
October 2000
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