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MrR’s Designernof the week

i really liked what Rachel has done with her clock design here. The use of the hand positions as time indicators is a nice piece of design. I like her colour choices here as well. This image doesn’t show he whole drain off as there is a white background. Hopefully we will follow up with A photo of the actual clock when finished.

By Mr R-April 29th, 2016-D&T, featured_student_designer, Year 9-0 Comments

User centred design workshop with David work and from grayscale

We were very lucky to have a workshop on user centric design organised by David Wieland of Grayscale web design. David really helped identify the nature of design and the need for design to solve real problems. The students considered “what if” scenario story telling as a mechanism for problem identification. David takes a lot about how users should be involved in the process in both the description of the problem and the development and testing of the solution as your ideas change.

The students then workshopped some ideas of their own exploring three key areas for evaluating ideas – the customer segment, the revenue stream and the value proposition.

By Mr R-April 28th, 2016-App Design, Elements-0 Comments

Speed dating app pitches

here the mobile apps students are pitching their app ideas to each other in a speed dating forum. Each student pitch was 2 minutes long during which time they had to communicate the problem the app tries to address and answer any questions they were asked. The purpose of the exercise was to try and recruit people to their team which will lead to prototyping the app.

The noise was extreme and the energy good!!

By Mr R-April 22nd, 2016-App Design, Elements, ICT-0 Comments

Mr R’s Designer of he Week

I was amazed by 8R’s creative work in he last lesson and will get round to publishing a list of some of the work they completed for their clock project. However, one student really shone and that was Rochelle. Here is just some of he ideas she came up with in the lesson. What amazes me apart from the diversity of her ideas is the maturity of thinking and communication. Well done Rochelle!!

By Mr R-April 14th, 2016-D&T, Year 8-0 Comments

Year 8 Digital Literacy Logos Work

The unit on Logos Year 8’s do is part of their Media Literacy awareness in Digital literacy. We spend a number of weeks developing skills with vector graphics software before deconstructing logos and how they communicate. We work on typography, colour and shape before anlaysing a brief and developing ideas for that brief. Below are some of the best outcomes from this unit across the year. Well done all those whose work is featured.

By Mr R-March 17th, 2016-ICT, News, Year 8-0 Comments

Mr R’s Designer of the Week

It has been a while since I have identified someone who I wanted to celebrate as my designer of the week so it good to have the opportunity now. This week I would like to celebrate Wenxi. We have been working on the creative process in the design of our clocks. Wenxi has come up with a really nice idea and modelled it extremely well in preparation for he lesson where we start to take this into Adobe Illistrator for development. I look forward to seeing the result.

By Mr R-January 28th, 2016-D&T, featured_student_designer, Year 8-0 Comments

Student Work from the Magic of Animation Elements Course 2016

I am proud to present these three animations from the Magic of Animation Elements course. These pieces are the final project work from 6 students and represent their final projects. Please enjoy!!

Eugene

Natasha and Tiffany

Ryan and Justin

Justin and Darren

By Mr R-January 27th, 2016-Animation-0 Comments

Animation Crew begin filming their projects.

The Rlements Animation students ended 3 weeks of planning and development and started to film their animation pieces today. Exciting to see this work coming together.

By Mr R-January 14th, 2016-Animation, Elements-0 Comments

Year 8 Creativity Techniques

For their clock designs year 8’s have been using a number of ideas generating strategies to generate more abstract and unusual shape ideas. Scrafitti and jackstaws modelling are two shown here. The range and diversity of ideas created by this group in a little under a hour was impressive.

By Mr R-January 14th, 2016-D&T, Year 8-0 Comments

Year 8 Digital Citizenship Infographics

This year we tried a new way of addressing aspects of Digital Literacy with Year 8’s and asked them to research a topic and present their understanding in the form of an infographic. The students used a tool called Canva to help them with this task. There were many good examples coming out from the students. Here are a few…please click to see larger images of the work.