ITC Valentine Bulletin Board
02/17/2014
We now interrupt the regularly scheduled Chromebook blog series to bring you this important bulletin board project.
It is time once again to revamp the ITC bulletin board. This time the ITC grad students decided to do a Valentine theme for February, here is how they did it.
To make the Valentine bulletin board for the ITC, we first started with the background paper. Measuring the width and height of the bulletin board gave us an estimate of how much background paper we would need to use. We decided to go with red to honor the true Valentine’s spirit!
Next, we chose a border to put around the bulletin board. We went with the color white to make it balance out the red background paper. That was the easy part.
Next, we chose a border to put around the bulletin board. We went with the color white to make it balance out the red background paper. That was the easy part.
To get started with the harder part, we Googled pictures of a cupid and printed out the ones we liked the best. After doing that, we needed to get it copied to a transparency. Once that was done, we could put the transparency of the cupid on an old-fashioned overhead projector and project the image up onto the wall for tracing.
The ITC has a permanent setup with a wall of Plexiglas to affix large sheets of paper to make it easy for you to enlarge images for creating your own bulletin boards. This setup makes it easy for tracing images and allows you to enlarge the image to the size you need for your project.
We decided to go with a white background paper for the cupid for the final project. The next step was to search the Internet for images of a stylized heart. Some people can freehand hearts pretty accurately but we chose once again use a transparency sheet to project the image and trace around the heart shape for our bulletin board. Once the heart and cupid were cut out, we began working on the heart to make it look 3-D.
This was probably the most difficult part. We used some of the materials we have available in the ITC and chose to use boarders that we had in stock to make it look like a heart box of “candy”. This was difficult because the borders are meant to be in a straight line, so getting them to stick to the heart took a lot of bending, taping, and stapling. The end result looked great though!
We colored lightly on the cupid just to give it a splash of pizzazz. To fill the heart shaped “candy box”, we went back online to Google’s search engine and found several photos of technology devices that you would find here in the ITC. For example, markers, construction paper, computers, printers, laptops, iPads, and die cutters and printed them in color to make them look more realistic.
We worked on using the die cutters for the words “The ITC is like a box of Tech” and chose to do 3 layers of Valentine’s colors (red, white, and pink) to make the bulletin board pop. Once the words were posted on the bulletin board we used Google to find a computer screen that we could make from construction paper. After cutting that out with black paper, we went back online to the ITC webpage, and printed off the screenshot that would come up if you were to go the ITC webpage. We pasted that on the computer screen to make it look technologically cool.
Once all of the things were up and stapled on to the bulletin board, we took our MP3 player with ear buds and plugged into Mr. Cupid’s ears for listening to Dr. Grissom’s TechTalk4Teachers podcast. This has become a running theme at the ITC and you will often find the MP3 player incorporated into ITC bulletin board designs.
As you can see from the pictures above this is another great job completed by the ITC graduate assistants. Please stop by the ITC to see this and other projects for classroom ideas and to make your own bulletin board today!
Keep on Learning,
Tom Grissom, PhD
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