Teacher tips
www.picassohead.com/create.html
This digital tool is intuitive and user friendly. The program works by dragging facial elements onto an online drawing canvas. • Registration: p
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cso ed is free and does not require registration.
Students will need to know their email addresses for this lesson. Students should begin by looking in the Gallery to see examples, before clicking on Create. Cybersafety: Remind students not to write their surnames or email addresses in the T
i e field. t l • Modelled and guided practice: Demonstrate how to use pcso ed iasha
on an interactive whiteboard. Construct a face together, if required. Some students may not be aware that there are tools beneath the drawing canvas to perform functions such as enlarging, reducing and changing colours. Have students scroll down, if necessary, to reveal these tools.
• Alert students to the fact that once they start creating a picture, they cannot look at items in the Gallery without losing their work. When they return to the Create page after visiting the Gallery, they will be presented with a new, blank canvas.
• Save/email this painting: If you want to evaluate students’ work, request them to list your email address as well as their own, with a comma between the email addresses, before they click on Save my painting to the Gallery.
• Find the painting online: View Gallery. The URL of the published painting can also be retrieved by opening a notification email sent from p
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cso ed. Copy and paste the link into the browser. Once their painting is located, students can click on Share and then Print.
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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