Monthly Archives: March 2024

Introduction and Background:Collaborative drawing sessions for Year 1 BA Textile Design students foster class bonding, teamwork and enhance creative skills. However, when students are not all fluent English speakers, providing effective verbal feedback and promoting teamwork can pose challenges. I … Continue reading →

Introduction and Background:Building on the analogue drawing exercises I use as a precursor to digital design instruction, I explore further the integration of analogue drawing activities in Adobe Illustrator Technical Skills sessions for Year 1 BA Bespoke Tailoring students, aiming … Continue reading →

Introduction and Background:In my Adobe Illustrator Technical Skills sessions for Year 1 BA Womenswear students, acknowledging and addressing varying levels of skill among students is paramount to fostering a supportive and inclusive learning environment, and ensuring each student has a … Continue reading →

Enhancing Adobe Illustrator Teaching Through Object-Based Learning My session aimed to test a method of making the teaching of technical aspects of Adobe Illustrator more engaging to students by comparing the Digital Pen tool with Analogue pencil drawing. I wanted … Continue reading →

The Charismatic Lecturer article from Workshop 1, related to Teaching Digital Technical Adobe Photoshop Skills. Macfarlane’s (2004) exploration of “The Charismatic Lecturer” in “Teaching with Integrity: The Ethics of Higher Education Practice” delves into the multifaceted role of tutors in … Continue reading →

This was a very useful PgCert Workshop, number 4, in which discussion was centred around the effectiveness of setting Learning Outcomes. In the article I read, Nicholas Addison explores the role of Learning Outcomes (LOs) in higher education, particularly in … Continue reading →

I very much enjoyed discussing the article ‘Could do Better?’: students’ critique of written feedback’ by Kate Brooks in the workshop. Here are my main points: • Students’ Feedback Expectations and Experiences: The article highlights students’ perceptions of feedback in … Continue reading →

In this post I explore the application of Carl Rogers’ humanistic principles, as elucidated in his influential work “Freedom to Learn,” to the teaching of technical aspects of creating Fashion Technical Sheets (FTS) in Adobe Illustrator. I take the chapter … Continue reading →

Lars Lindström (2012): Aesthetic Learning About, In, With and Through the Arts: A Curriculum Study, The International Journal of Art and Design Education Given this article to assess, Lindström‘s radical ‘method of art’ challenged me to look at using different … Continue reading →