This is a second collection of wonderful Epic Wallpapers produced by my year 7 students. The design were chosen for the strength of their designs, attention to detail, Creative Commons licensing and overall appeal. Well done to the students for creating such lovely work. Feel free to download the designs, which are all at 1680 x1050 pixels, and should fill most screens.
In Year 7, my students undertake a short unit of work called Epic Wallpaper, in which they attempt to make a glossy wallpaper using Acorn and some graphic design techniques. This is the first year I have run this unit, and it went very well, with the students really enjoying the creativity of image editing. The 9 best designs are shown below. All are under Creative Commons licenses, so feel to download and use them as your wallpaper.
Download all 9 wallpapers (ZIP)
All images are 1680 x 1050px and so should work on most commons screen sizes. Well done to Alex, Alvin, Emi, Jamie, Lily, Nicolle, Ruby, Sammi and Serena for their fantastic design work.
This morning I was approached by a teacher (Megan from HLY) whose students have been asked to draw split portraits of themselves, half their current age, and half when they are older. Megan asked if we could use some software to age the students, and I showed her AgingBooth (available for Android and iOS). I’ve used this app, and its cousin FatBooth, in the past with students, and they absolutely love the experience. From a personal development point of view, it also faces them to think about the future and what it might be like.
After a little playing around, we came up with the image below, which uses half of a regular image (thanks Jayne) and half of the same image run through AgingBooth:
The aim would be to have students produce such an image of themselves, print it, and then use it as the basis of their self portrait. This could be achieved as follows:
