Kevin Driscoll
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Curriculum Collections
This collection of resources explores the use of digital image editing software in the mass media. We explore popular images of beauty and the use of digital imagery in news media.
I developed this material for students learning digital image manipulation techniques in a computer science class but it could easily be adapted to a wide range of courses.
This is an introductory digital image editing project in which students will create an absurdist collage from images they find online. Students will be challenged to exercise their web research skills as well as develop familiarity with digital image manipulation software.
To get started, I gave all of the students the same T-Rex JPEG and encouraged them to try upsetting audience expectations by repurposing this image. Students should be familiar with selection, transformation, history, and layers.
Although I have used this project in a lab with Adobe Photoshop, it can also be run successfully on free software such as the GIMP.
This project assumes that students have access to the Web.
This project could be improved by adding art historical context re: dada, surrealism, and pop art.
Materials to support interdisciplinary computing.
Classroom management, review, practices, organizational tools, etc
A collection of programming problems with solutions expressed in a variety of programming languages for teachers and learners of Computer Science.
This collection of resources was created in collaboration with Ankur Verma, Anubhav Aggarwal, and Vijay Majumdar as part of the OLPC Summer of Content, 2007.
Digital image editing project. This project assumes that students have a familiarity with selection, transformation, layers, and history tools in a digital image editing program such as the GIMP or Photoshop.
It is most effective when paired with a critical look at the use of digital photo editing techniques in mass media (see my related collections.)
Finals, Midyears, Review Packets, Oh my!
This material presents the foundational writing skills required of all my computer science students: Freewrite, Email, Blog, Wiki
This four-day animation workshop was developed for use in the teen program at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston, USA. It uses Macromedia Flash (non-free software) and refers specifically to works in the ICA's permanent collection but could definitely be adapted to another set of tools and resources.
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