Creating Digital Sourcebooks: 8VA

Dear Grade 8s,

Some of you asked about creating online sourcebooks or working on your computer. You may work digitally but then you need to upload your sourcebook onto the Google cloud so that your teacher can access it from her computer.


Indian Drive by Shena Macdonald

Google Drive is a wonderful place to store and generate online content.

Link to PPT tutorial on signing in to Google Drive





You can add your work to the cloud by uploading existing content from your computer onto Google Drive.

Link to Tutorial on Uploading Presentations

Remember that the file size needs to be small so that content loads faster online. One way to reduce file size is to compress images or break a large powerpoint into smaller sections.

 Link to Tutorial on compressing images on Powerpoint 

You can also generate content online by creating new documents in Google Drive.

Link to Tutorial on creating Google Presentations

 Link to Tutorial on adding content to Google Presentations

The next step is sharing Google Drive content with your teacher.

Link to Tutorial on sharing settings on Google Presentations

8VA: Jewellery Sourcebook

Dear Grade 8s,

 You are about to create your first Art Sourcebook.  This is a journal of ideas and 'recipes'on  how to make various art objects.

Link to a perfect sourcebook example

Your Sourcebook pages may not be smaller than A5 and it cannot be bigger than A4.

Page 1: Title page with your name, surname and register class

Page 2: Inspiration page with drawings from class PPT (we will keep adding to this as we go)

Page 3: Paper Beads Tutorial

Page 4: Wire Work Tutorial

Mrs Sturgess's classes pages 1, 3 & 4 are due in your lesson next week (18-22 Aug).

8G please note that you missed a lesson on wirework due to the big walk so you only have to hand in page 1 & 3 next week.

Here is a link to an example of someone's recipe for creating paper beads: http://www.papervinenz.com/2012/07/paper-bead-tutorial-summer-fun.html

Your sourcebook page may not be as in depth as the above example but each Technical page should include:

• Diagrams/ photos of the process/  and /or drawings of or samples of the materials used
• samples of the final product (please don't glue these in, rather place them in a pocket on your page or stitch them onto your paper.)
• Instructions on how to complete the technique

Materials Used so far: 

• Paper beads: glue pot, straws, magazine pages, woodglue, sponges, plastic sheets to protect tables
• Wire work: Pliers, wire Link to Names of the pliers

Link to previous post on Paper beads

Link to Post on Wirework

DIGITAL SOURCEBOOKS for those of you WITH A GMAIL (GOOGLE) ACCOUNT

To create a digital sourcebook work on Google Drive- I will keep posting more on this:
Link to Post on working on Google Drive