This video helps to explain the basics of copyright law and creative commons licensing and the role each can play in helping creators protect and share their work.
The University of Alberta created the Opening Up Copyright (OUC) instructional videos to make copyright law more easy, engaging, and accessible to everyone. Check out their many videos, including "Copyright In A K-12 Context."
This 3 minute video explains the basics of copyright. It will help students (and teachers) to understand how source attribution works in the real-world.
In this video, you'll learn the cutting-edge trends, along with the styles, techniques, and approaches that are dominating and will continue to dominate the world of design this year
What does marketing color psychology mean to you? Each color has positive and negative connotations, and you want to be careful of the messages you're sending.
In Islamic culture, geometric design is everywhere: you can find it in mosques, madrasas, palaces, and private homes. And despite the remarkable complexity of these designs, they can be created with just a compass to draw circles and a ruler to make lines within them.
This video explores the design of television screens. Learn how changes in aspect ratio affect every film, and why your television might not be delivering the whole picture.
Brands are important for influencing consumer choices. But neuroscientists are learning that branding can influence more of your behaviour than just your choice of what to purchase.
Students are challenged to design their own small-sized prototype light sculptures to light up a hypothetical courtyard. To accomplish this, they use Arduino microcontrollers as the “brains” of the projects and control light displays composed of numerous (3+) light-emitting diodes (LEDs).
For this maker challenge, students become biomedical engineers who design, create, and test a medical device that measures a patient’s pulse using a microcontroller, LED, and light sensor.
Search for icons that can be downloaded and used in student and teacher creations. There is also the ability to create and share your own unique icons.
This video explores how colors, camera angles and logos in the media can all prompt viewers to make associations with their own emotions and memories. Learn to decode this intricate system of symbols from advertising messages to traffic signs.
Scroll through some of these amazing open use photos. All of the photos have been public domain dedicated and are free for you to use. New photos are added regularly.
This is an amazing exploration of street art around the world. Click on the map to narrow your selections to different spots or explore one of the featured topics.
Graffiti pops up in all cities; it’s nothing new. Graffiti has been around for thousands of years. This video addresses the history of graffiti and asks: Is it art? Is it vandalism?
Darktable is an open source photography workflow application and raw developer. A virtual lighttable and darkroom for photographers. It manages your digital negatives in a database, lets you view them through a zoomable lighttable and enables you to develop raw images and enhance them.
In this lesson that combines coding and snowflakes, students consider how and why humans collaborate with computers to make art. Students use algorithm components to create a 3D model of a snowflake from code.
Can you tell if something is square or level? This game shows shapes that need a slight adjustment. Use the mouse to drag the blue square or arrowhead where you feel it is 'right'. Once you let go of the mouse, the computer evaluates your accuracy.
Figma is a collaborative design tool for building meaningful products. Students can create, share, and test designs for websites, mobile apps, and other digital products and experiences.
Create beautiful photos, logos, social media graphics, and facebook covers with PicMonkey's easy yet powerful photo editing and graphic design software. Free trial access.
The Polona Typo project makes it possible to type, share and print your own sentences using thousands of letters from historic books, posters and maps created over more than six centuries.