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Lesson Plan Brett Whiteley

Lesson Procedure

1. Brett Whitely was a famous Australian artist. He has left an impression on society with both his art and his lifestyle. What was he trying to tell us in his paintings? How did his lifestyle reflect in his work? All artists are reflected through their work, some more than others. Discuss with students some of the known artists and how they believe the artists’ lifestyle or how the society in which they lived, has been reflected in their paintings.
2. Students will choose a known artist to investigate. Using the internet as a research tool, students collect information and images pertaining to their chosen artist. Encourage students to research many critics’ opinions on the subject matter, thus allowing students to make judgements and critique the work with an informed decision.
3. Using Microsoft Power Point, students will create an information kiosk including information about the artist incorporating examples of his or her work. This kiosk will include relevant information both about the paintings and how the artists’ life is reflected, if at all, through their work. See sample file called Whiteley.ppt.
4. When creating the information kiosk, include a hyperlinked contents page that allows the audience to interact with the presentation by clicking on the different headings to view the information in a non-linear manner. See How to Create an Information Kiosk for instructions.
5. Share the presentations with the class. You may like to set the presentations up in the schools computer lab to allow students to move from one presentation to the next due to the interactive nature of the projects.

In the Classroom

• Students will be able to create professional looking Interactive Multimedia Kiosks using this interactive workshop file. These can be developed by individual students or by groups of students
• This file can be used in conjunction with a range of other scaffolding files that support students in locating, collecting and analysing information
• These kiosks make excellent displays in the classroom, library, school lobby or other prominent locations

Assessment

When assessing student learning consider:

• Were students able to develop artistic intentions arising from relationships between artist – artwork – world – audience?
• Did students thoroughly investigate the works of selected artists as an aspect of their art making practice?
• Were students able to recognise how artists interpret the world in the making of artworks and how they seek to represent these concepts through a range of styles and approaches?

How to create an Interactive Kiosk

How to Begin

Prior to beginning this tutorial, students will need to research their subject matter saving any images to be used in the presentation to file. Images may be scanned or downloaded from the internet. To save an image from the internet:

To save an image from the internet:

1. Place cursor on the image to be saved
2. Right click the mouse and select Save Picture As
3. Locate the folder to which images are to be stored and click Save

TIP: Create a folder to which all images to be used in the presentation will be stored. This is not only good work practice, but will help greatly when locating images at a later date. When saving an image to file from the internet, you may like to rename the image to something that you will quickly associate with as pictures from the net are often named with letters and numbers relevant to the site they came from.

Save images under a name which will be easily identifiable to you.

Creating the Title Slide

Now that images and information have been researched and saved to file, we are ready to begin. In preparing an Interactive Multimedia Kiosk, the first thing you need to do is to create a Title Slide.

1. Select Start > Programs > Microsoft PowerPoint
2. Microsoft PowerPoint will now appear. By default a Title Slide will be displayed

Inserting Images

For the heading we are going to insert Brett’s signature which we found on the internet and saved to file.

1. Select Insert > Picture > From File
2. Locate the saved file and click Insert
3. Adjust the inserted text image to suit by dragging the resize handles
4. You may like to add further images to the title slide by inserting pictures from file as described above. In our example we have inserted an image of Brett which will also become our gateway into the presentation

5. Highlight the image by clicking on it. Resize handles will appear. Adjust the size to suit by dragging these handles
6. We have created a border to frame the page
7. We have added a textbox from the Drawing toolbar and type in text to suit
8. From the Drawing Toolbar, click the Rectangle button and draw a border onto the page. You will notice that the rectangle will block out your heading and image.
9. While the rectangle is highlighted, from the Draw drop down menu, select Order then Send to Back

10. From the Drawing toolbar, select Draw then Send to Back

Creating the Table of Contents

Our title slide looks great! Time to create a table of contents.

1. Select Insert > New Slide
2. In the Title text field, type Contents
3. In the Text area, type the Slide Headings. An example is shown below:

4. Each time you press Enter a bullet will automatically default for each point. To change the look of the bullets from the Format menu, select Bullets and Numbering and choose a style to suit
5. We are going to use the black frame throughout the presentation. From Slide 1, highlight the frame and select Edit > Copy.
6. Simple Paste the same border onto each of your slides

Creating the Information slides

We have created a title and contents slide. Now for the information! Let’s take a look at different ways to present information.

• Timeline - A timeline is an effective way to present information in a sequential order. Point form organised by year, allows the reader to browse the information quickly.

• Text with Accompanying Visual Images - A picture tells a thousand words. Images are a great way to illustrate information and are highly effective in presentations.

• Visual Images as a Source of Information - Visual Images, such as the example shown below, need very little text to illustrate the point.

When working with artworks it is a good idea to include information about the piece including the title and medium.

• Video Clip - There are times you may want to use video files present information. You can use video files from a CD-ROM, downloadable video from the Internet, or video that you have created. Make sure you have permission to use the video clip.

To include a video in PowerPoint presentation:

1. Select Insert > Movie and Sound > Movie from File
2. From the Insert Movie dialogue box, locate the video file you would like to use and click OK
3. Microsoft PowerPoint will then prompt if you would like the movie file to play automatically in Slide Show view. Select the answer that best suits your requirements
4. You can resize the video image to a suitable size. To do this click on the image and drag the resize handles to suit

Note : Video images can be very large. Inserting them into a kiosk will also make it very large. You may prefer to hyperlink the video instead.

• Incorporating Sound Files - Sound files add significantly to the impact of the presentation of information. Sound files can include recorded voice recordings, music files or sound effects. These too are available from CD ROMs, the Internet, or they can be recorded by students.

To incorporate a sound file:

1. Select Insert > Movie and Sound > Sound from File
2. From the Insert Sound dialogue box locate, and select the file you would like to include in the document and click Insert
3. A small speaker will be inserted as an icon to represent the sound. When prompted, select whether you would like the sound to play automatically or be activated by clicking on the icon
4. The sound file can be tested by double clicking on the sound icon

Creating the Links

Once all the information slides have been created we are ready to hyperlink the contents page to the relevant slides.

1. Highlight the first topic from the Table of Contents you created in slide 2
2. Select Insert > Hyperlink
3. The Insert Hyperlink dialog box will appear. Select Place in This Document from the side menu
4. From the Slide Titles list, select the slide you would like to link to and Click OK

5. A hyperlink has now been created from the first point in the table of contents to the slide you selected. The text will now appear underlined and when you click on it while viewing it in a Slide Show View, will take you to the Topic 1 slide. Test your link by using the F5 key on the keyboard to begin the slide show
6. Repeat this process for the remaining items in your Table of Contents

Adding Navigation Buttons

With our hyperlinks now created, a user can browse through the information slides via the contents page. We need to create navigation buttons that allow the user to return to the contents page to make further choices.

Navigation buttons can be found in the Slideshow menu under Action buttons. However, in our presentation we have used a hyperlinked image of Brett Whiteley for an interesting effect.

1. Select Insert > Picture > From File
2. Locate your image from file and click Insert
3. Adjust the size and position of your image to suit
4. While the image is highlighted, select Insert > Hyperlink
5. Select the slide you would like the image linked to. In this case you will want the image to take you home to the contents page, therefore select slide 2
6. Run the slide show using the F5 key and test that your link works
7. We need to create a navigation button for each slide so the user may return to the contents page at any stage. The easiest and quickest way to do this is to highlight the image you just created the hyperlink from and select Edit > Copy
8. Select the next slide that requires a navigation button, and select Edit > Paste
9. Continue pasting the navigation buttons to the slides as you now have a navigation button that already has the hyperlink created!

Saving your Interactive Kiosk

1. Select File > Save . If it is the first time you have saved your document, you will see the Save As dialogue box

2. Type a name for the kiosk in the File name field and choose to save it in your folder on the school server
3. Click on the Save button
4. You're done!