Teacher tips www.escapemotions.com/experiments/flame/index.html#top


This digital tool is easy to use but as the drawing motion is quite fluid, students may need some practice and experimentation time to achieve full control before attempting a learning task.


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v • Registration: Fa e is a free tool and does not require registration.


• Modelled and guided practice: On an interactive whiteboard, show students the examples below the dashboard provided by Peter Blaskovic and the paintings in the Flame gallery. In addition, show students the demonstration at http://flame.escapemotions.com. If necessary, invite students to jointly construct a F


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bottom of the canvas. Students can change brush size, softness, colour and transparency or employ brush effects such as noise and chaos by sliding bars. Erasing and clearing can also be done from here.


• Save: Press the Save button in the bottom right of the dashboard. Saving can be problematic on some school servers. When students hit Save, the program tries to open a new page featuring the finished painting, but this page does not always open. When it does open, choose the typical File, Save as options to save the image as a JPEG. If saving fails, one solution is to do screen captures into a W


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• Screen capturing: Hold down the CTRL and ALT keys on the bottom left of the computer keyboard. While these keys are held down, press the PRINT SCREEN key swiftly on the top right of the keyboard to take a picture of the image. Open a new Word document, and press CTRL V to paste the captured F


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that editing can occur. Look up to the top right of the screen to see Pcue tos appear above the F ar t menu. Click on Pcue tos and C p the image to size by dragging the corners to fit.


l e image into the document. Click on the image so it r


Other worlds: To infinity and beyond with digital tools in the middle years by Lizzie Chase with S Bowes, D Ivanek, Y Liu, J Riley, J Starink


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