Integrating ICT in Art Ripple Infants School within the Primary Classroom Showing how a sequence of Art lessons can be modified to enable ICT-based consolidation activities to take place alongside more traditional activities. A Test-Bed Action Research Project prepared by Mrs S. Gordon

Stage 1 – Creating Patterns in the Style of Andy Goldsworthy It’s a great way to do art because you can make your work whatever size you want or even work on the floor, but you can’t keep it like that because you have to tidy it all away.

Stage 1 –Patterns in the Style of Andy Goldsworthy Children have taken these photos of their own work.

Stage 2 – Creating a digital template It’s easy to take a photo, but you need someone to put your picture from the camera into the computer.

Stage 2 – Creating a digital template Children have taken photos of their objects, then selected a portion to work with in Colour Magic.

Stage 3 - Manipulating the selected image to create a repeated pattern using the ‘symmetry tool’ We have to think about where we want the shapes to go so that it makes a symmetrical pattern. It’s easy to find our own photos. The ‘steps sheet’ helped us, but after a while we didn’t need to use them because we knew what we wanted to tell the computer to do.”

Children made calendars from the prints of their work. Stage 3 - Manipulating the selected image to create a repeated pattern, using the ‘symmetry tool’ Children made calendars from the prints of their work.

Stage 4 – Using the ‘Colour Effects’ tool to modify a selected image

Stage 4 – Using the ‘Colour Effects’ tool to modify a selected image

Stage 4 – Using the ‘Colour Effects’ tool to modify a selected image Children’s work can also be seen at Barking Town Hall Art Exhibition.