Dear GIMP:
I've just retired from teaching Technology Applications for middle schoolers
(7,8), and I wanted to share the numerous student projects that involved GIMP.
Various groups of students turned to your product 30 different times to make
things happen:
1) Raul Yzaguirre School For Success [RYSS] - Harmony Hills Elementary School
Mentorship Workshop: Twenty-one students [eighth grade] from RYSS traveled to
Harmony Hills Elementary School to mentor twenty third grade students in the
use of graphics software. This mentorship process involved an intensive
session of learning/practicing, and project application to make digital art:
http://tomrchambers.com/h_8_h.html
2) Raul Yzaguirre School For Success (RYSS) - Houston Coalition for the
Homeless (HCH) "Three Decades of Achievement" Event [April 5, 2013] : A core
group of eighth grade students attended the Houston Coalition for the Homeless
(HCH) "Three Decades of Achievement" event downtown Houston, April 5, 2013.
They displayed a selection of the eighth grade class Digital Art about the
homeless to not only call attention to this social issue, but also celebrate
their humanity. They explained their (and classmates') multifaceted project
that involved Word, PowerPoint and GIMP (graphic arts software):
http://tomrchambers.com/hch.html
3) "Homelessness" Digital Art (GIMP) : Eighth grade students used GIMP
(Photoshop equivalent freeware) to create Digital Art about homelessness. The
art online is a selection from the 8th grade class. They used images of
homelessness situations to manipulate in GIMP for the art work. Not only did
the students call attention to the plight of the homeless, but also celebrate
their humanity through the Digital Art treatment of the images.This activity
was in response to a learning service (campaign) initiative by the National
Council of La Raza (NCLR):
http://tomrchambers.com/h8_gimp/index.html
4) Raul Yzaguirre School For Success [RYSS] - Harmony Hills Elementary School
Mentorship Workshop: Twenty-two students [seventh grade] from RYSS traveled
to Harmony Hills Elementary School to mentor twenty-one second grade students
in the use of graphics software. This mentorship process involved an intensive
session of learning/practicing, and project application to make digital art:
http://tomrchambers.com/hh_g_ryss_11-12.html
5) GIMP for Gala: Seventh grade classes used GIMP (graphic arts software -
Photoshop equivalent) to make Digital Art for the Tejano Center for Community
Concerns (TCCC)-Raul Yzaguirre School for Success (RYSS) Gala/Fundraiser
(October 19, 2012). They utilized existing photographs made by RYSS students on
various field trips with the Houston Audubon Society:
http://tomrchambers.com/gimp_gala.html
6) Dublin/RYSS Space Weather/NASA Magnetospheric Multiscale [MMS] 2014 Digital
Art Exhibition: Eighth grade students at Raul Yzaguirre School For Success
[RYSS] [Houston, Texas], and fifth grade students at Dublin Intermediate School
[Dublin, Texas] exhibited their Digital Art in Dublin, Texas [June, 2012] based
on research of Space weather and the NASA MMS [Magnetospheric Multiscale] 2014
Mission:
http://tomrchambers.com/dub_ryss_exhib.html
7) My World Transformed: This project is a culmination of middle school
students [Enrichment Class] at Raul Yzaguirre School For Success (Houston,
Texas) working to explore their personal environment [bedroom at home] to
provide photo documentation for the making of Digital Art. During the process,
a greater awareness of "self" through possessions came to the forefront:
http://tomrchambers.com/ec_mwt.html
8) Raul Yzaguirre School For Success [RYSS] - Dublin [TX] Middle and Primary
Schools Mentorship Workshops: Nineteen eighth grade students from Raul
Yzaguirre School for Success [RYSS] traveled to Dublin Middle and Primary
Schools [Dublin, TX] to mentor fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth grade students
in the use of graphics software to create digital art re: Space weather and
NASA's MMS [Magnetospheric Multiscale] 2014 Mission:
http://tomrchambers.com/ryss_dmps.html
9) DA_NASA_MMS_RYSS: Eighth grade students participated in a classroom
assignment involving GIMP [Photoshop equivalent] photo software and research
re: Space weather and NASA's MMS [Magnetospheric Multiscale] 2014 Mission. The
students were tasked to research the various topics/concepts about Space
weather [Sun, Sunspots, solar flares, CMEs (Coronal Mass Ejections), solar
winds, Earth, Earth's magnetic fields, Earth's magnetosphere, magnetic
reconnection, Auroas] as well as NASA's MMS 2014 Mission, and then translate
the information in photo software as Digital Art:
http://tomrchambers.com/NASA_MMS_DA.html
10) FACE II: As a part of after school programming, this exhibition is a
culmination of 7th and 8th grade students working to explore self-portraiture
as Digital Art. It is in keeping with Mr. Chambers' proje
