Inkscape is fantastic Free and Open Source Graphic Software. Easy to learn as well as a powerful tool for creating icons, web graphics and diagrams, and enhancing charts, maps and graphs generated by spreadsheets, or mindmapping applications. How can a drawing program be used across the curriculum? ICT tools enhance every endeavour, and numerous studies show that combining images with text aids learning and knowledge retention. Creating images to illustrate concepts and ideas that can be used in your teaching materials, and encourage students to add images to their work too. Best of all, Inkscape is Free and can be used at home as well as at school.
This is an interactive workshop that requires a computer lab,or a BYO laptop lab. Participants need to have a mouse.
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Inkscape: Drawing Across the Curriculum
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2. ... in brief
Inkscape is an Open Source scalable vector graphic (SVG) editor. Donna will showcase
Inkscape art and practical applications, demonstrate Vector Drawing techniques, and
provide pointers on where to go to learn more.
Donna Benjamin runs her own business and procrastinates daily by exploring new
features and bugs of the bleeding edge version of Inkscape. She has managed to find
legitimate uses of the software for creating web graphics, re-recreating corporate logos
and creating posters and banners. Creative Contingencies does customised web
application development, hosting, research and meeting facilitation.
Donna is currently writing a book on Inkscape due for publication in late 2009 and is
assisting the technical team with the National Conference in Melbourne in April, 2010
http://acec2010.info
Call for presentations open now!
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5. this workshop ...
starts with a brief description of Inkscape
what it is
what it does
and finishes off with pointers
to help you do it too.
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6. scalable vector graphics
Native File format is W3C SVG1.1
http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/
SVG is a language for describing two-dimensional graphics and
graphical applications in XML.
SVG 1.1 is a W3C Recommendation and forms the core of the
current SVG developments.
Interoperable with a range of apps,
and useful modern web browsers.
(watch out for blurs, gradients & transparency)
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13. ... for diagrams
Block diagram multi mode receiver
(amateur radio)
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Afu_superhet1.svg
created by http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benutzer:Appaloosa
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34. LUV poster
Take photo of bricks
Trace bitmap
Add
text and rotate
logos
box
Make the text white
Add vector grime
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35. Clones
You
can clone
anything...
http://flickr.com/photos/enygmatic/319747296/
Time for a live demo?
[ note to self:
cross fingers, hold breath ]
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36. Built in help
There are
Tutorials in
the help
menu.
SVG format
so you
can work
with them
directly.
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