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imageThis Visual Literacy Database has been designed to provide your Art Department with the most useful resources currently available on the Web. It supports National Curriculum KS3 units (with ICT lesson and homework support material) through GCSE, AS and A2 level. You can select materials from the site to support your own ICT lessons, or your students can use the entire site to initiate, direct and improve their own learning and examination research.

If you would like to view sample pages from the site please contact us using our e-mail page. We will send you a sample KS3 unit.

The site is organised as follows:

Members' homepage
A large links section for teachers and students including e-learning, e-zines, image bases, free visual programs and digital art.

Introduction
Links to KS3, GCSE, As and A Level pages

Guidance for art teachers
• Site guide
• Setting up a visual literacy database
• Visual Literacy references
• Guidelines for using the site
• Teaching strategies
• GCSE courses
• AS and A Level courses

New web 2.0 suite for teachers

For teachers to develop their ICT using many of the hundreds of free image modification tools that are now out there!
image 1 Teacher's Guide Web 2.0 online tools
2 Online image generators
3 Photography and image manipulation
4 Create your own art dept search engine
5 Finding art education on social tagging networks
6 Using Wikis in schools to aid students' learning
7 Blogging issues
8 Finding new Art Podcasts for KS3, GCSE, AS, and A2 levels
9 Online productivity tools for students of art
10 Miscellaneous mashups and other Web 2.0 tools


Guidance for all students
• How do we appreciate Art?
• Art and Design research
• Using Art and Design databases at GCSE level
• AS/A level and Higher Education Art History databases
• Contemporary artists
• Academic search engines for AS/A level students
• Your GCSE, AS/A level Design Workbook
• GCSE themes
• AS and A Level theme Guidelines

Guidance for KS3 students
NEW - This section has been fully updated to include full ICT lesson and homework support with up to ten tasks extending KS3 studio work.
image • Unit 10A – Visiting a museum or gallery
• Unit 9A – Events
• Unit 9B – Change your style
• Unit 9C – Personal places, public spaces
• Unit 8A – Objects and viewpoints
• Unit 8B – Animating art
• Unit 8C – Shared view
• Unit 7A – Self-image
• Unit 7B – What’s in a building?
• Unit 7C – Recreating landscapes

Each unit has SEN support, including mind maps and Widgits. (Widgit Rebus symbols used with permission of Widgit Software. Tel: 01223 425558. Web: www.widgit.com) Widgits provide an excellent webservice programme called Communicate:Webwide that will translate any website into Widgits symbols for easy reading.

Project Guidance for GCSE Students - NEW IN 2006
Extensive specific contextual themes and support for ceramics

Project Guidance for A/S and A Level students - NEW IN 2006
Extensive specific contextual themes and support for ceramics

Database of genres
• Categories of genre
• The importance of drawing
This section contains a huge resource section of chosen genres most often used in secondary art education and much more!

image Museums and Art Galleries
• Full information on leading international galleries of contemporary and publicly owned Art to research
• Net art journals and magazines including digital art section

Contemporary Art in Western Culture
Overview of contemporary art including RA, Movements in 20th century art, feminism and art, Patrons, Critics, Collectors, recommended books, curators and much more!

GCSE, AS and A LEVEL – specialised art history searches
This includes extensive general examination research themes and advice according to artistic context and content. A full review of art on the Web!

World Visual Cultures -support for GCSE AS and A2
This section includes those topics that examination students find most useful including Impressionism, Expressionism, African Tribal art and cubism, Afro American and Caribbean art, Russian art, Asian and oriental artists, Latin American art, Islam, Australian art and even Eskimo or Inuit.

Drawing – the fundamental language of art and design
• What is experiental drawing?
• Rules of good drawing
• Procedures and techniques – experimenting with drawing materials
• Ways of drawing from objects
• Why drawing is the basis of all art






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