Vesna Kropivšek, OŠ Toma Brejca, Kamnik

To make art lessons more interesting, I wanted to show students the link between classic drawing and drawing by means of ICT tools. A camera, a tablet PC and a PC were selected as the school ICT tools. These tools were then incorporated into an art assignment for 8th graders in the non-compulsory subject Artistic Formation II. The assignment was titled Lines by Movement. Since our students often come across using tablet PCs in various other subjects at school, they already have lots of experiences. Therefore, in this assignment I wanted them to share knowledge with each other and with me. Students were given assignment instructions that included an artistic problem – a line that is made by movement of a point. The goal was for students to learn artistic concepts: what is a point, what is a line and how does a point become a line. A chair motif was presented to students in the course of their work and they had to express it artistically by means of four different tools. Drawing on paper with a pencil and drawing on the blackboard with chalk. Both drawings were photographed. The third tool was the use of ICT – students drew with their fingers on a tablet PC in an application called ArtStudio. The last tool was drawing with a lamp in the dark, whereby the drawing was captured on camera. While drawing in all of the mentioned ways, students also had to be blindfolded. Then a computer was used to make a collage in the PowerPoint programme. All artworks were collected in a common PowerPoint and were crosschecked to see which way of drawing brought students the best results. In the assignments students developed a feeling for the connection between movement, a point, a line, space and use of several ways of artistic expression. A successful and useful combination of classic and ICT drawing methods and successful cooperative learning (student-student and student-teacher) was put forward by the assignment.