Fridge Magnet Mania
This ICT starter idea written by teachers, for teachers, describes how students could use digital images to design and create a magnetic gift for 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
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 Internet is useful
- Drawing program
- Image manipulation program (suggest Graphic Converter/Photoshop)
- Printer
Possible context
- Celebrating an occasion
- Fundraiser
- Fathers Day
- Mothers Day
Suggested process
- Take your photo or make your image.
- Improve it if you need to, for example, adjust brightness/contrast, take out parts, and text.
- For printing purposes, it may be helpful to put more than one image on one page.
- Cut and fix images to magnet (you may want to laminate/polyurethane them onto card first).
- Flexible magnetic sheets can be purchased from stationers.
Other suggestions
The same process can be used to create badges. Badge makers can
be hired from teacher resource centres.
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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