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Schoolarts magazine: scannogram greeting cards. (Holiday Showcase).


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Description of Project: 1. Collect materials you wish to appear on your card, 2. Arrange objects on scan bed, 3. Scan objects, 4. Print from a color or black and white printer. Now you've created your own unique greeting Greeting is a way for humans[1] to intentionally communicate awareness of each other's presence, to show attention to, and/or to affirm or suggest a type of relationship or social status between individuals or groups of people coming in contact with  card!

Materials Used: Computer with scanner (1) See also antivirus program.

(2) An optical device that reads a printed page or transparency and converts it into a graphics image for the computer. The scanner does not recognize or differentiate in any manner the content of the material it is scanning.
, scanning software, found objects, and your creative imagination.

Grade Level or Age Appropriate: 5th Grade and up with adult supervision.

Estimated Project Time: 15-30 minutes per card

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For further information see Scannograms article by Michael Prater prate  
v. prat·ed, prat·ing, prates

v.intr.
To talk idly and at length; chatter.

v.tr.
To utter idly or to little purpose.

n.
 and Mark Sawrie on page 29 of this issue of SchoolArts magazine.
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