Roland - Versa Studio Sign Maker BN-20

Project Details: Roland Versa Studio Sign Maker BN-20

How are we using the technology: We are very fortunate at our school to have a variety of technology that is available to our students.  One such piece of technology is the Roland Sign Maker (detailed and linked above).   We have used this machine to produce stickers for our school.   As a result students have to think about how they might use the technology - what is the purpose?

We have posted with significantly about our School Market Day which is coming up later next month.   One aspect of the work that the students are producing is the packaging that goes with their product.   In this instance the sticker machine is being used to produce adhesive stickers which can then be applied to the packaging.

The older students in our school tend to use Mac Books and programs such as GIMP for the photographic design and manipulation.   In the junior school students have used a straight forward program with their iPads such as pic collage which is available from the App store.

In the example shown left the students from this group ordered online from a retail site in New Zealand which sells batched products for lip balm.   They then used the available information to produce the lip balm.

For packaging the students ordered the bags shown in bulk from Ali-Express.    The personalisation of the products came from using the sticker machine to produce individualised business stickers for the product.  As they are adhesive they attached to the plastic tubes and stay in place.

This adds considerably to the presentation of the product and the individuality of the groups work and branding.  We have also used some branding sites in addition to this for students to create individual and unique business logos and designs.

Additional information on this machine and process will be following as will a tab from the main blog page.