Learning with PhotoImpact

Useful Internet Resources

• All About Puns
• Visual Puns
• Have the students search the "image" database of Google, or other search engines, to locate graphic and photographic images that they can download and use in the "visual puns".

Materials

• Materials for teacher’s lessons as necessary
• Print, multimedia and internet resources
• Computer with a word processor, PhotoImpact software and Internet access
• Materials for teams to complete graphic layouts
• Blanks CDs and/or DVDs
• Presentation equipment

McREL National Content Standards Addressed

Language Arts – Viewing

• Std. 9 – Uses viewing skills and strategies to understand and interpret visual media
  Level III, Benchmarks 5, 6 Level IV, Benchmarks 4, 8, 11

Art –Visual Arts

• Std.2 – Knows how to use structures, ( e.g., sensory qualities, organizational principles, expressive features), and functions of art.
  Level III, Benchmarks, 1-3 Level IV, Benchmarks 1-3

Technology

• Std.4 – Understands the nature of technological design
  Level III, Benchmarks 2-5 Level IV, Benchmarks 2, 3 5, 6

Procedures and Approximate Times for Completion

1. The teacher conducts lessons on puns, and visual art techniques for composing picture elements. (2 hours)
2. Student teams take their digital pictures and/or download the pictures they need from the Internet. (2 hours)
3. Each team creates their graphic layout for their visual puns. (1 hour)
4. The teams create their multimedia visual pun pictures. (2 hours)
5. Each team presents their visual puns and answers questions from the class. (5 minutes per team)

Assessment
The following sites have examples of rubrics that you can look at in order to help you design a rubric that will meet your needs.

• Digital Arts Rubric, http://www.webproject.org/digital/rubric.html
• Art Rubric, http://www.goshen.edu/art/ed/rubric2.html
• You may also want to have your students reflect upon their projects and address the following in writing:
  • Which aspect of completing your visual puns did you find most interesting, and why?
  • How do you think you will be able to apply what you learned about art techniques in picture composition in your studies of other subjects?