Links to general resources - Please contribute
1. UK government policy and Open Source Software (Download link for paper submitted to BECTA in May 2006)
3. The Open Clip Art Library provides a lot of public domain images. Many of these are now available in the INGOT on-line graphics library available from "My Account" file browser tab on the learning site. Upload clip art to your INGOT community user space and link to it from your e-portfolio, blog or other pages. You can make a contribution to the Open Clip Art Library as a project for your Gold INGOT if you like. We recommend using Inkscape to design clip art to go in this library as it uses .svg the international open standard for vector graphics that is the default Inkscape file format. Inkscape is free to download and copy from Inkscape.org.
4. Here are some You Tube tutorials about how to use Inkscape. There are too many to link just search for HeathenX and Inkscape on You Tube.
5. If you document your project in your blog eg provide diagrams for science apparatus, clip art for music, shapes and symbols for technology or just nice art work you want to share with others you will have a good start for your Gold project. Some people find designing graphics on a computers much easier than drawing by hand so don't worry if you think you are not a brilliant artist. You might surprise yourself as to what you can achieve. I was bottom of my class at school in art but with a computer I designed 3D graphics for national broadcast TV.
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