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Using photographs to teach crafts skills
Have you ever thought how you could make more
of craft photographs? Most craft projects come with one photograph to
support the instructions. Others come with more. Just think what
you could do with all those wonderful focussed pictures. They'll
really make a difference to your teaching.
I spend a lot of time putting together craft instructions for different
types of learning situations.
Those instructions that don’t have photos are so much harder to
follow. It's like having a jigsaw without a picture to guide
you. The photo is crucial to understanding what you have to do.
Here's how I would approach a project taken from a book or magazine.
1. Scan the project into the P.C.
2. Use Microsoft photo editor to pull off the photos and save them to
the photos folder. Once they are there you can manipulate them in so
many ways.
3. Place a number of text boxes on a blank word document drop the
photos into them.
4. Print off the photos for your classroom work.
5. You may choose to number them, or for a different tactic, leave them
unnumbered. Encourage your learners to sequence them. This
is great for identifying stages of the craft process - i.e. what must
come first.
6. You can adapt the size of photos to suit visual needs
7. Add minimal text instructions underneath to help combine visual
learning. This mixture of visual prompts stimulates the senses
and the mind.
8. When adding your text, keep the instructions bite sized and relevant
to the photo using a referred font and font size.
9. Observe the difference that the photos make to learning and see how
you can incorporate more photos into your workcards or classroom
preparations.
If you can offer a complete craft project in this way then you'll be
able to help learners towards independent learning. They won't be
so reliant on you. This frees you to support other
individuals.
Having a project formulated in this way may also encourage new thinking
on a new theme. Perhaps you could use the cards in a 'snap' card
game. Keep the photos in packs. The new words will
challenge and increase vocabulary and will help with associating
actions with photographs.
Many of these ideas fulfil requirements of the core curriculum.
See what other ways you can think of to use photographs in different
ways.
Identifying tools, techniques and instructions helps with so many adult
activities. Making the process fun through photos can kick start
novel ways to get into crafts.
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Geraldine Jozefiak is passionate about
crafts and their place in
education. Be part of raising standards in teaching and learning
by offering the best possible creative opportunities.
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