My IT kids were really motivated by making their very own, royalty free clipart so I put this Inkscape handout together.<br> <a href="http://www.vitta.org.au/resources/detail.php?doc_id=2964">http://www.vitta.org.au/resources/detail.php?doc_id=2964
</a><br><br>Interesting comment by our media teacher about publisher, questioning the
real DTP skills learned students He noted, anybody can design a 3 fold flier
without thinking .. if it is so easy, what are students really
learning? If the output is all that matters, is it cheating to then e-mail your work to somebody else to fix, tweak and post back? He loved the first get your hands dirty using a real tool approach.
Akin to using a wet darkroom to process, crop and print photographs
compared to clicking on the automatically adjust my digital photograph
button. I have never thought of it in those terms.<br><br>Join in, laugh and have fun celebrating all their small steps.<br><br>Regards Roland<br><br>PS: Money we saved spending on FOSS was spent on buying a huge A1 panoramic printer.
<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 06/03/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Cameron Bell</b> <<a href="mailto:bell.cameron.p@edumail.vic.gov.au">bell.cameron.p@edumail.vic.gov.au</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
We have all those installed around the school for just those reasons. ;-)<br>Especially Scribus as the inability of Publisher to be compatible with<br>even itself is excruciating!<br><br><br>victor rajewski wrote:<br>> On 3/6/07, Cameron Bell <
<a href="mailto:bell.cameron.p@edumail.vic.gov.au">bell.cameron.p@edumail.vic.gov.au</a>> wrote:<br>>> We are moving the school over to Open Office for long term<br>>> compatability, readability and multi OS availability. AND the fact it is
<br>>> $0 for *all* students. ;)<br>><br>> On that note, can I point out there are also some cool cross platform<br>> open source design tools out there - Gimp does a mighty good job<br>> replacing photoshop, Inkscape is a vector graphics program much like
<br>> illustrator, and for desktop publishing there is Scribus. All free,<br>> all use open file formats, and all run on Windows, OSX, and Linux.<br>><br>> There is also OpenOffice Draw, but I haven't used it yet.
<br>><br>> I just had my first play with Inkscape this afternoon, and found it<br>> easier to use in a lot of respects than Illustrator :)<br>><br>> vik<br>> _______________________________________________
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