Påskpyssel

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Påsken närmar sig och med den påskpyssel av olika slag. Det kan vara mer eller mindre avancerat, men för den som vill göra det lite enkelt för sig och ändå få fina resultat finns det en hel del att hämta från nätet i form av instruktioner och färdiga mallar för ‘paper craft’.

Ett populärt inslag har varit att vika pappersmodeller av olika djur eller dekorationer. En kanin kan till exempel passa till påsk.Mallar för kanin och instruktioner och för fler  djur finns hos Canon Creative Park. Här finns det också arkitektoniska modeller, mer eller mindre komplicerade, om du tycker om att skapa miljöer och hus i miniatyr. Du kan också skriva ut (gratis) kort och färdiga etiketter och dekorationer av olika slag, för att klippa och klistra med eller använda direkt som de är.

The Graphics Fairy har till exempel många olika ‘printables’ och Everything Etsy tutorials och 101 Pretty Printables {free}

Free printable colouring pages

Påskpyssel med mallar

Easter Cards from Creative Park

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Fler länkar och resurser finns på sidan Bild och Musik (Art & Music)

Free images and clip art – what is ok to use?

What images can I use in my work, my school papers, on my blog etc.? This is a recurring question. The answer is not always easy. It can depend on several things, including which country you are in. But you can of course always use images that you have produced yourself. That includes photos that you take with your phone or a camera, and anything you draw or paint. Most often you may not want to do this, but you are looking for something that already exists to illustrate a text, a presentation or something else you are writing or designing.

You can always use images that are in the public domain. Images are  released into the the public domain either because they are old enough or because the person who owns the rights to the image has decided to release it into the public domain. If you are a teacher, a student or is thinking about making your work public in another capacity it is wise to choose images which are free and legal to use. Public domain resources are a good option here. You can also use work licensed under Creative Commons.

Some useful sites for images

clipartlord.com

iconfinder.com

freevintageart.com

oldbookillustrations.com

wikimedia commons

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“Spotlight” – working with film

If you are watching and/or working with the film Spotlight It may help to learn a bit more about the background story.”Catholic priests were committing crimes so unspeakable that the Archdiocese of Boston went to extraordinary – and expensive – lengths to cover up the scandal” (Farragher, The Globe, February 24, 2002)

Here below you find a selection of texts and resources about the film, the people and the story. The film is presented as “the true story of how the Boston Globe uncovered the massive scandal of child molestation and cover-up within the local Catholic Archdiocese, shaking the entire Catholic Church to its core”

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History vs Hollywood gives some answers to questions you may have after watching the film, and gives names and faces of both actors and the real person in the story, where the most important are

At the Globe /Spotlight team)

Walter “Robby” Robinson Position: Reporter, Editor, Spotlight Team Leader

Michael Rezendes Position: Reporter

Sacha Pfeiffer Position: Reporter

Matt Carroll Position: Reporter

Editors (people in charge)

Martin “Marty” Baron Position: Editor-in-Chief

Ben Bradlee Jr. Position: Assistant Managing Editor

Lawers

Mitchel Garabedian

Eric MacLeish

The Church

Cardinal Bernard Law

Victim

Phil Saviano

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Watch ABC NEWS  “The Real ‘Spotlight’: Meet Team That Inspired the Oscar-Winning Film”  and read about the spotlight team (February 2016).

You can also read the Spotlight article “Church allowed abuse by priest for years. Aware of Geoghan record, archdiocese still shuttled him from parish to parish” (January 2002).

To make the course of events clearer you can use the Timeline of Spotlight report stories (November 2015).

The Enigma Machine and the Bletchley Park Code Breakers

BBC History describes the Enigma machine as “a piece of spook hardware invented by a German and used by Britain’s codebreakers as a way of deciphering German signals traffic during World War Two”

If you like codes and puzzles you can explore the different type of machines and codes that were using during World War Two.

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Alan Turing and his team at Beltchley Park managed to crack the Enigma machine and by doing so contributed to the Allied forces Victory in WWII. Bletchley Park was vital to Allied victory in World War Two.

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What was Bletchely Park and who were the Code Breakers?  Bletchley Park was the once the top-secret home of the World War Two Codebreakers. Nearly 10,000 people worked in the wider Bletchley Park organisation. You can take a tour of Virtual Wartime Bletchely Park (1938).

In a way this was “the birth of the information age, industrialisation of  codebreaking processes  with machines such as the Turing/Welchman Bombe and the world’s first electronic computer.

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also see

Alan Turing and “The Imitation Game”

Alan Turing and “The Imitation Game”

Alan Turing‘s life and the code breaking work at Bletchely Park during WWII has been depicted in the film “The Imitation Game”. But who was the real Alan Turing?

A filmed drama is fiction no matter if it depicts people who have really lived and historical events which have taken place. Behind the story in the film there are facts and real people. Turing’s family have expressed concerns about how he is described in the film which you can read about in the article “Don’t turn my uncle’s life into a romance, says Alan Turing’s niece“.

Joan Clark is somewhat romanticised shown in the film. She was the woman who helped crack the Enigma cyphers. She is important as women’s achievements so often are overlooked or forgotten in history. Her interview in a “BBC Horizon programme, from 1992, is one of the only instances in which she spoke about her time as a cryptanalyst”

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You can learn more about Alan Turing: Creator of modern computing at BBC iWonder where he is introduced with

“Alan Turing was not a well known figure during his lifetime. But today he is famous for being an eccentric yet passionate British mathematician, who conceived modern computing and played a crucial part in the Allied victory over Nazi Germany in WW2. He was also a victim of mid-20th Century attitudes to homosexuality – he was chemically castrated before dying at the age of 41”.

In 2009  The British Governmen made a public apology for how Alan Turing was treated “Gordon Brown: I’m proud to say sorry to a real war hero”. Reading “Life story: Why code-breaker Alan Turing was cast aside by postwar Britain” may give you a better understanding of the time and its prejudices.

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also see

 The Enigma Machine and the Bletchley Park Code Breakers