The Arts
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VELS Learning Domain: The Arts
Creating and making
The Creating and making dimension focuses on ideas, skills, techniques, processes, performances and presentations. It includes engagement in concepts that emerge from a range of starting points and stimuli. Students explore experiences, ideas, feelings and understandings through making, interpreting, performing, creating and presenting. Creating and making arts works involves imagination and experimentation; planning; the application of arts elements, principles and/or conventions; skills, techniques and processes; media, materials, equipment and technologies; reflection; and refinement. Individually and collaboratively, students explore their own works and works by other artists working in different historic and cultural contexts.
Exploring and responding
The Exploring and responding dimension focuses on context, interpreting and responding, criticism and aesthetics. It involves students analysing and developing understanding about their own and other people’s work and expressing personal and informed judgments of arts works. Involvement in evaluating meaning, ideas and/or content in finished products is integral to engagement in the Arts.
Exploration of, and response to, expressive qualities of arts works is informed by critical analysis of the use of elements, content and techniques and discussion about the nature, content, and formal, aesthetic and/or kinaesthetic qualities of arts works. Exploring the qualities of arts works involves use of arts language and also draws on research into the purposes and functions for which the works are created and audiences to whom they are presented. This involves students developing an understanding of social, cultural, political, economic and historic contexts and constructs, and developing a consideration of ways that arts works reflect, construct, reinforce and challenge personal, societal and cultural values and beliefs.
Software
Performing Arts
Audacity - The Free, Cross-Platform Sound Editor
Audacity is free, open source software for recording and editing sounds. It is available for Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows, GNU/Linux, and other operating systems. Audacity is useful for editing and remixing performed sound. It can be used it clarify or to provide abstraction to sound projects. Students can use Audacity to bring together sounds recorded separately to create collaborative works. For more detail see the audacity website: http://audacity.sourceforge.net/about/
Solfege
Solfege is free music education software. Use it to train your rhythm, interval, scale and chord skills. Solfege - Smarten your ears! http://www.solfege.org/
Visual Arts
Inkscape
Inkscape is an open source drawing tool with capabilities similar to Illustrator, Freehand, and CorelDraw that uses the W3C standard scalable vector graphics format (SVG). Inkscape comes with a full set of tutorials in the "Help" menu. Inkscape is great for creating artworks which can be adapted for different projects. A vector shape can be developed for a small image on a webpage and then scaled up for a poster. Students can scan in designs and refine them by creating vector versions and then experimenting with flat and graduated colour, lineweight and style, patterns placed bitmap images.
Examples
- Sonic postcards http://www.sonicpostcards.org/index_f.html
The Sonic Postcards project is intended to allow schools to identify creative and innovative ways of working with the technology already available to them. We aim to provide skills and teaching strategies which are sustainable after the project has finished and therefore we tailor-make the technology provisions in accordance with the system already in place at the school.
- Sheer Audacity: Sound Ideas For Learning http://segatech.us/archives/1282
- iBreatheMusic.com - Introduction to Solfege (http://www.ibreathemusic.com/article/44) by Gunharth Randolf. This site is not about the software, but about the technique or practice of Solfege.
- Who uses Gnu Solfege? (http://www.solfege.org/Solfege/WhoUsesSolfege?from=Solfege.WhoUseSolfege) A listing of people with descriptions about how they use the software.
References
- The Arts (http://vels.vcaa.vic.edu.au/essential/discipline/arts/index.html) | Discipline-based Learning (http://vels.vcaa.vic.edu.au/essential/discipline/index.html) | P-10 Curriculum and Standards (http://vels.vcaa.vic.edu.au/essential/index.html) | VELS HOME (http://vels.vcaa.vic.edu.au/)
