Learning Materials
Scran Learning Materials
Case Study
1. Author details
| Name: | Colin Andrews |
| Job title: | Lecturer in Convergent Media |
| Institution: | Grays School of Art, Robert Gordon University |
About the authors:
I have taught in a number of art institutions / universities, teaching primarily electronic media. I am experienced in the production of seminar notes, lecture notes, workshop notes and practical projects with accompanying visual material and have a high level of IT competence.
2. The materials
A website with Flash content which provides an introduction and context to the photographs and lives of the Scottish photographers David Octavius Hill and Robert Adamson and their remarkable contribution to the history of photography as an art form. Aimed at tertiary level history of photography / art students and researchers.
Why did you want to create these materials?
Personal interest and research.
How will your materials benefit learners?
Providing a historical context for Hill and Adamson’s work and allowing it to be seen as a number of distinct bodies of work.
How will they improve on previous methods of teaching this topic?
More visually rich and providing a wider historical framework.
3. Creating the materials
- Viewing the Hill and Adamson images on the Scran website
- Reading around the subject
- Writing content
- Downloading images
- Designing the site (shared with Evie Milo)
- Editing images
- Building the site (primarily done by Evie Milo)
- Testing site (shared with Evie Milo)
What tools did you use?
Web, books on the subject, Photoshop, Illustrator, Flash, Dreamweaver, Fireworks.
What additional support did you need in creating the materials?
Assistance in designing, building and testing site (Evie Milo).
What are the main skills required in creating materials like this?
Research, editing, writing and design skills.
Describe any difficulties you experienced and how you went about addressing them.
Searching the Scran site and refinding resources. What did I do? I persisted.
Recommendations – please note any reading, software, websites, online courses etc that were useful to you.
- David Octavius Hill and Robert Adamson, Katherine Michaelson, Scottish Arts Council Publication
- Facing the Light – The Photography of Hill and Adamson, Sara Stevenson, National Galleries of Scotland Publications
- David Octavius Hill and Robert Adamson, Sara Stevenson, National Galleries of Scotland Publications
- Hill and Adamson’s ‘The Fishermen and Women of the Firth of Forth’, Sara Stevenson, National Galleries of Scotland Publications
