rhona.faulkner

If any of you have some nice ideas that i can use with my children then i'd be really greatful. I'm going to try them with the glow shapes tutorial, as it seems relatively simple for them.

We don't just use the package for art. I run computer workshops for producing artwork using ICT every week. I started producing work based on an artist's picture at first. We made our own interpretations of pieces by Kandinsky, Matisse, Warhol and Macintosh; but we used mainly object based packages, such as the drawing tools on Word. Then I stumbled across the tutorials section whilst teaching myself how to use PDN, so here I am! They would love to produce anything really, as they are only just beginning to get to grips with the package. Not many understand the idea of the layering just yet. It would be good to be able to access tutorials for differing abilities of children. There is a very wide range for even just 9-11 year olds. They are easily impressed! They really loved the fire tutorial. Some found it ok to follow, but only with my guidance; others found it quite hard, but were still impressed with their results. I liked the look of a tutorial abut creating smileys, so will look into that one with some of my brighter pupils as it looked difficult for some of them. Thanks again with all of your support and help with this, it's been quite overwhelming!

Thanks for all of the help and advice on this topic, it's the first time i've posted something and didn't mean it to be a criticism of anyone. The children i teach are aged between 9 and 11, so that's why i requested the child friendly tutorials. They love the software and i would just like the chance to be able to let them have a "free reign" of their choice of activity.

By swear words, there was a title that said "My first TUT - bloody tiles" or something similar. And so i thought it not best to use it with my class, in case they did contain other such words, as i don't want to get into trouble for exposing them to anything inappropriate, - i'm sure any other teachers or parents out there would empathise with me on this .

I have used some of the tutorials from your site and they are great at learning the capabilities of the program. I am a teacher at a junior school and would love my children to be able to access the tutorials, but some of them are too difficult for them to follow, and there are some that contain swear words in the titles, so i cannot allow them to choose their own tutorials. So, can i request a section for "child friendly" and simple but effective tutorials. The kids at school loved the "create a fire with PAINT.net"