tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-43205175069858053612023-07-18T23:41:25.283-07:00iPad Studio for Elementary Artusing the iPad as a tool in the process of artmaking with my K-5 artists katiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12232739949343964924noreply@blogger.comBlogger20125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320517506985805361.post-17957781141860573422014-05-19T13:31:00.001-07:002014-05-21T14:44:59.448-07:00The Augmented Reality DotEven though it isn't anywhere close to Dot Day (September 15) this quick and low material lesson was perfect for May. It was exciting and easily manageable for "school's almost out excited kids." We read the book <a href="http://www.peterhreynolds.com/dot/"><u>The Dot</u> by Peter H. Reynolds</a> and students used markers, crayons, or colored pencils to color in their dot. I didn't tell them about the augmented reality just yet. I kept it a surprise. (Actually, I said, "If you do amazing work, I have a special surprise for you!" Another May technique!)<br />
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Once the amazing work was finished, students opened the ColAR Mix App. They were delighted to see their artwork come to life in augmented reality. Laughs and whoooooo's and giggles filled the room. <br />
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Once every student saw their art, each student inserted their hand into the frame and with the help of their table buddies, took a picture. Downloaded through dropbox and then labeled, these pictures are on our <a href="http://www.artsonia.com/museum/gallery.asp?exhibit=806893">artsonia account</a>. I also printed small 3x5 pictures and had them laminated.<br />
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On day two students recapped what <u>The Dot</u> is all about and we opened up my twitter account (@ArtsyMissHatch). Students sent a message to the author, Mr. Reynolds, about the lesson they learn to be more confident artists. It was a great way for the students to summarize the lesson. Very shortly, they received a message back! How exciting for the kids and great advice too! </div>
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To print out more AR coloring pages go to <a href="http://colarapp.com/">ColAR Mix's website.</a><br />
It's available on goggle play too!<br />
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Here my second grade students are writing. They are comparing the experience between drawing Georgia O'Keeffe inspired flowers on the iPad verse painting them. Some like the experience of painting while others didn't like the messy and preferred the digital experience. Other students said they liked to zoom in on the iPads to work on detail areas. Check out our <a href="https://www.artsonia.com/museum/gallery.asp?exhibit=734619">paintings</a> and our <a href="https://www.artsonia.com/museum/gallery.asp?exhibit=733149">digital paintings</a> on <a href="https://www.artsonia.com/museum/gallery.asp?exhibit=733149">artsonia</a>!<br>
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Kindergarten students have started off their art training learning how to use the elements of art line and shape. We used the art app MoMA Art Lab to play with these elements. Some students stayed abstract and others made representational objects like houses, snowman, and cars. I believe play is an important part of the art process, and this app allows students to do that with minimal supplies, mess and time. We didn't explore the activities on the app yet, but I'm hoping after this introduction students will continue to use the app at home and in the future if they have choice time on the iPad. <br />
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Since I was more on top of the lesson, today's class finished early, so I had them do the activites. I choose the Mastisse game where they had to cut out shapes. It turned out to be a really good motor skill practice for them! <br />
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A kindergarten lesson often has a book to accompany it, so a search on iTunes commenced to look for free children's books. I am a printmaker/bookmaker, so my love for books runs hardcore, but I liked this experience of using an e-book for a few reasons. First, I like that the students have some ownership of the experience. Flipping pages, pace, and listening to it over again was in their control. Next, the book was interactive. It asked the students to participate in the story. They painted the dog's paw prints and found the frog under the leaves. Finally, there is a management advantage. My classes run back to back with no minutes in between. I needed to get paint poured and had no time during my previous classes. While students sat in groups of two or three listening to the book I was able to get paint ready so there was no wasted time. A huge bonus during a 40 minute class! While getting all the colors ready, I noticed the kindergarten students really experienced joy while listening and interacting with the book. Teacher and students were happy!</div>
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Once students were finished with the book and materials were ready, we regrouped on the carpet and talked about the story. At the end of the book there is a rainbow and this flowed into our lesson of painting a ROYGBV rainbow. Next class students practiced cutting zig-zag and curvy lines from great <a href="http://www.aussiechildcarenetwork.com/cutting_lines.php" target="_blank">worksheets</a> I found on <a href="http://www.pinterest.com/katiehatch1/art-lessons-k-12/" target="_blank">Pinterest</a> and then cut out and glued their rainbow lines to black paper. My first class drew the lines themselves, and while the results were much more unique, many students struggled because their self drawn lines where to intricate to cut out themselves. For the second day, I drew curvy and zig-zag lines on the back of the paper and students felt much more confident about their cutting skills. Check out our results on <a href="http://www.artsonia.com/museum/gallery.asp?exhibit=696242" target="_blank">Artsonia</a>!<br />
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Fifth grade was working on a printmaking project and I only had a small amount of cutters and more importantly, bench hooks. What to do with the other half of students? This is why I love having iPads! Low materials but high on <a href="http://www.artsonia.com/museum/gallery.asp?exhibit=686589" target="_blank">results</a>. A perfect double project maker! <br />
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Every fall I do a small unit on fear. I found this <a href="https://www.blogger.com/%3Ca%20href=%22https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/eyepaint-monsters/id569067561?mt=8&uo=4%22%20target=%22itunes_store%22%3EEyePaint%20Monsters%20-%20Curious%20Hat%3C/a%3E" target="_blank">Eye Paint Monsters</a> app and knew the kids would have a chance to play and experiment! It's a touch and shoot app. The monsters are already drawn and the students take pictures to fill in the empty areas. To enrich the app, I added the concept of textures and the monster had to be in our school. I like that you can edit your picture after saving it. If students wanted to use people, (such as the principal being attacked by bats!) they had to take two pictures so one could be published on <a href="http://www.artsonia.com/museum/gallery.asp?exhibit=686589" target="_blank">Artsonia</a>. No peeps allowed on the site. To make two photos, it's as simple as taking the first photo, saving it, and repeating the process for the second photo. I had a box full of fabrics including fur, lace, and netting for the students to photograph. Some students even used textures they found around the school and the clothes they were wearing. They like experimenting with the camera and using perspective to place the monster in just the right pose. The monster could be big or small, depending on the perspective. Eye Paint Monsters was a great one day project that students were enthusiastic about, help us while having wait time on another project, and results were entertaining to the whole school!<br />
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Don't you hate it when you get a free app and you're all excited because the pictures looked so cool... and then you find out only the download was free? (Cue Price is Right loosing sound effect!) Sooooo disappointing! Now you have to buy all the pieces and parts (Which I haven't quite figured out how to do, since I buy everything through vouchers with the apple volume store. Any suggestions?)<br />
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Usually, this app would get deleted or forgotten about. However, in this case, the limited use of the app was actually preferred and perfect for a kindergarten project! </div>
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Kindergarten was learning about horizontal and vertical lines. We used tissue paper to create the lines in our first project "<a href="http://www.artsonia.com/museum/gallery.asp?exhibit=684919">Bedhead</a>" but I thought a lesson on the iPad would be a good introduction to using the iPads in art. After all, most of kindergarten is about all introducing them to materials, how to use them and play/take risks! When I came across Paper 53, the ease of picking colors and only have one option, the pen, was perfect. The kids still had a choice of colors, but they were limited with the pen as their only tool. Boundaries are often good. It's within the boundaries kids sometimes have more room to explore. Students are less busy switching materials and more busy making marks. Without the choice of other tools, the assignment stayed focused on lines and colors. The results were beautiful little drawings that developed unexpected layers!<br />
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On a management side of things, I had students work in groups of two. Our class sizes this year are small for K. Normally, it's a 1:3 ratio. After they were finished, which in most cases was me telling them they were, I wrote the name for the student and then cropped their name out when I published on A<a href="http://www.artsonia.com/museum/gallery.asp?exhibit=678181">rtsonia</a>.<br />
Here are some examples below and you can see the cropped results on our <a href="http://www.artsonia.com/museum/gallery.asp?exhibit=678181">Artsonia site! </a><br />
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After the introduction of the big idea of belonging on the first day of school, I needed fourth grade students to brainstorm and make more personal connections to the idea. Who or what do they belong to? What is their heritage? What family traditions do they have? I needed students to brainstorm these questions on a personal level for their making meaning project. Asking 4th grade students to brainstorm answers to these questions would fall under the category of engaging, so I decided to use the app <a href="http://cloudart-app.com/">CloudArt</a>. I've seen it used by other art teachers and it looked like the perfect vehicle to get my students to answer otherwise dry questions. I had them think of 7-10 words that describe how they belong. Students typed these words into the app and they got to "play" with color choice, design and making words smaller or bigger. CloudArt could be used to teach graphic design, color choice, fonts, and so on, but I merely used it today to get them thinking about answers that I need them to know for our next project. Brainstorming with beautiful results and students who are engaged...I'll take it! To see our whole gallery of CloudArt check out <a href="http://www.artsonia.com/museum/gallery.asp?exhibit=675411">artsonia</a>.<br />
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We're off and running already in the first week of school! I like to get the kids into the process of making art right away so we started off the first day with the big idea of BELONGING. While we study this idea and ask H<i>ow does artwork help a community express belonging?,</i> we're going to look at other cultures and how they express this same idea with artwork. Every fall we study an ancient culture with our big idea. This fall I decided ancient Asia would fit well with the big idea. Using the app <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/national-geographic-world/id364733950?mt=8">World Atlas from National Geographic</a> was an awesome way to show my students exactly where Asia is compared to where they live. Instead of looking at a flat map or having to store a globe in an already crowed art room, this was a digital globe. For some classes I showed them on my projector using my <a href="http://www.airsquirrels.com/reflector/">Reflector app</a> and others used the iPads as a small to explore this continent. Students really got to visualize the old tale of if they digging a hole to China! <br />
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I did pay for this app, but felt it was worth the $$$ because I can use this app across multiple lessons and for all grades. What other ways do you use a virtual map?<br />
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<br />katiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12232739949343964924noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320517506985805361.post-39321026847713159172013-01-29T13:48:00.000-08:002013-01-29T13:52:15.095-08:00Starting Kindergarten on the iPad<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Where do I begin for my Kindergarten students? This is the question I was asking myself when thinking about how to incorporate the iPad into my K curriculum. I came across the app <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/my-flake/id407824729?mt=8">My Flake</a> and decided it was a simple idea with excellent results so I'd start there. Students had just finished drawing themselves on a snow day, so it fit with the idea and I could display them together. The first day, I had students work on their snow day portraits and called ten students to the carpet to work since I have ten iPads (ten of which I'm very grateful for!). I thought I could run it like a centers in their regular Kindergarten class. I didn't like this set up, however. I didn't like that I couldn't help students who were drawing and was stuck on the carpet. The students at the carpet weren't helping each other because they were consumed with their own iPad and were very needy with me sitting right there. <br />
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Today was attempt two. I decided each table (I have ten, conveniently) would get an iPad and they would just watch each other work. I felt this worked better. <b>Students helped other students.</b> (Some have them at home, others do not, so they teach each other the basics like how to use the home button. Which saves me time since I only have K once a week for 40 minutes!) <b>I was able to help all my students.</b> Everyone was focused on the <b>same goal</b>. Students were excited to see their peers' results and gave one another <b>positive feedback.</b> Kids and I were <b>happier.</b><br />
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As they finished their snowflakes, I took a screenshot of the snowflake and then I opened the photo in Skitch. I prepared the text box for each student and they typed their own name and saved it. Extra keyboarding practice was a bonus! I was very busy with this task and 23 kids, but as the class went on, students learned the process by watching and it went faster. I cropped the snowflakes after class. Each iPad uses the same Skitch/Evernote account, so I could crop them all on one iPad because they automatically sync together. <br />
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When I first choose this app, I was conflicted if it really went with my curriculum. I'm not one for fluff or pretty things if students aren't making meaning. Was it teaching them anything other than just how to use and share the iPads and a really cool app? As they were working today, I realized they were using shapes and lines, and then turning those into a snowflake. It put meaning to their random choices, gave them a chance to play, and started Kindergarten students on their journey of using iPads in the art room. katiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12232739949343964924noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320517506985805361.post-83427157775159658232013-01-25T13:21:00.001-08:002013-01-29T13:50:57.663-08:00All in One for Digital Photography<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKNqymY8DIPK5pXnwn6D8iMqekX_GsWogd4m1Pd3e-WWv_2kIjKKg0KkanIBK7LVBHcYyFxLuByf7qN5KU5aWqNJsyPRhwWNGAcr4gS8yDHVkb6USbtmkdQgZ_U70tCKmsY50UKbOqu6j4/s1600/Kayla,+Maranda.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKNqymY8DIPK5pXnwn6D8iMqekX_GsWogd4m1Pd3e-WWv_2kIjKKg0KkanIBK7LVBHcYyFxLuByf7qN5KU5aWqNJsyPRhwWNGAcr4gS8yDHVkb6USbtmkdQgZ_U70tCKmsY50UKbOqu6j4/s1600/Kayla,+Maranda.jpg" height="198" width="200" /></a>Today fourth grade students rocked out a digital photography lesson! I am very excited about the process and results. <br />
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We started our journey into pop art by painting simple drawings of presidents found on Crayola's <a href="http://www.crayola.com/free-coloring-pages/print/us-president-george-washington-coloring-page/">website</a>. Students used three to four fluorescent paints. (I am really impressed with <a href="http://www.crayola.com/products/16oz-crayola-premier-fluorescent-paint-plastic-squeeze-bottle-product/">Crayola's Premier Tempera</a>! I think the extra few dollars is worth it for the fluorescent colors.) I'll publish the results of this project on <a href="http://www.artsonia.com/schools/school.asp?id=47488">artsonia</a> soon! We also did research about pop art and artists using the iPad. I blogged about this earlier.<br />
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With this foundation, we reviewed the meaning of pop art and I asked the students to think of popular images they saw just in our elementary school world. We talk about logos that they see all the time, school celebrities, and specific items that are a part of their everyday life here at school. I wanted them to find items that are not always considered art and to turn them into art. (I do want to say that the Mona Lisa photo is part of our world as a celebrity. I use the "I say Mona... you say Lisa" at part of my classroom management. The students have to then strike the Mona Lisa pose, so she is quite the celebrity here! Curriculum is always about the students' world to help them make meaning!) <br />
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I have ten iPads, so the students worked in groups and each group created one final piece. I went through the process on the projection screen and then students worked from a packet listing step by step instructions with screenshots. You can see the step by step packet <a href="http://buzzardart.weebly.com/uploads/3/2/9/3/3293182/pop_art_digital_photography.pdf">here</a>. Before starting we also talked about saturation, contrast, and really making our selected object the focus of our photograph.<br />
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<span style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: start;">What I loved the most about the iPad today was that the whole lesson used one piece of equipment. No plugging camera's into a computer or buying photography software. With the ease of doing everything on the iPad, my students were able to complete this project in one 40 minute class period. It amazed me! </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">See more results on <a href="http://www.artsonia.com/museum/gallery.asp?exhibit=609328">Artsonia</a></td></tr>
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iPads and recycle copy paper boxes! Quite a contrast! </td></tr>
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katiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12232739949343964924noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320517506985805361.post-16034822297522843052013-01-24T13:17:00.002-08:002013-01-24T13:17:10.954-08:00Using the iPad to Answer "I'M FINISHED!" Do you ever have some students finished with a project and others still working? I do! The last thing I want to do is get them ahead again on starting the next project. At first, I was giving these students a chance to use some apps on the iPad. I let the students use apps like Pottery HD Lite and Faces iMake, but then I noticed students rushing their projects to use the iPad, and were they really getting anything out of using these apps so casually? <br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhc1myIKoCZmjMfidPHLlKjd35AkkXipnatWD_kx0KNb0LsIHIA-u0GpK7SaPHWZQ1Md7hCT8bWLNTgKLD82VZ_PpqIfNqWoGmDEz9ZoH79_GXni2m8AXzZuwvlRjhURWFSCa4rrTL8sFXj/s1600/photo+1.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhc1myIKoCZmjMfidPHLlKjd35AkkXipnatWD_kx0KNb0LsIHIA-u0GpK7SaPHWZQ1Md7hCT8bWLNTgKLD82VZ_PpqIfNqWoGmDEz9ZoH79_GXni2m8AXzZuwvlRjhURWFSCa4rrTL8sFXj/s1600/photo+1.JPG" height="400" width="300" /></a> Students were finishing a Pop Art project this week and we didn't have a lot of class time to talk about all the many artists that encompass pop art. How was I going to get this information to them and still make forward progress? The iPad answers my dilemma once again! On my website that I design with <a href="http://www.weebly.com/">Weebly</a>, I linked websites and videos of artists. Students brought their own earbuds to class that day and were instructed to do Pop Art research! <br />
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This solved many problems! Students who were behind got caught up. They have a chance to do the research on their own time if they choose because the material is all available on my website. These students also didn't rush their projects to use the iPads. Students using the iPad could share more easily than when they were using an app and were less distracting to the students finishing up their work. I also felt like they were working on something that was adding to their learning experience, and not just buying time. Overall, it was a productive day in art today for all my students! <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Students found the link and videos on <a href="http://www.buzzardart.weebly.com/">my website</a> .</td></tr>
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<br />katiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12232739949343964924noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320517506985805361.post-90722714202622241112012-11-29T14:20:00.001-08:002012-11-29T14:20:45.956-08:00Choice and Research with the iPad<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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For the past four years, I have had third grade students create Ohio wildlife animals out of clay. They also create habitats where playing with materials is encouraged. Tissue paper turns into a pond and pom poms become rocks. We even had a nest built in a paper tree for a bald eagle one year!<br />
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Each year I have difficulty getting the students to understand what exactly a wildlife animal is and is not. There is always someone who wants to do a dog or horse. It takes an inspirational talk for them to understand a stray dog is not exactly what we are going for (although I adopted my own daschund!)<br />
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This year, with the power of the iPad and wireless newly installed in my classroom, the students were able to do their own research. I sent them to the <a href="http://www.dnr.state.oh.us/Default.aspx?alias=www.dnr.state.oh.us/wildlife">Department of Natural Resources</a> website for Ohio where there was an <a href="http://www.dnr.state.oh.us/Home/species_a_to_z/SpeciesGuideIndex/tabid/6491/Default.aspx">A-Z species guide</a>. Students choose their own animal and saved the picture to photo library. They just touch the picture, and a SAVE IMAGE button appears. Couldn't be easier! Each student picked their own animal and wrote down the name. Then students used a search engine to find more photos for different angles and a close up on the head.<br />
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Images were then downloaded into the Dropbox app and immediately appeared onto my computer. Dropbox has been working extremely well for the transfer of pictures and documents from the iPads to my computer. I printed them out (I'm lucky to have a colored printer) and laminated them. I can already tell the results of our project are going to be the best yet, and we will have a greater variety of animals represented instead of the same ten I would have printed off for them. Students have more information to create with and have a sense of ownership by doing their own research. To watch our progress on this projects and others visit our <a href="http://buzzardart.weebly.com/blog.html">school blog</a>! <br />
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<br />katiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12232739949343964924noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320517506985805361.post-9826583205365956222012-11-06T14:48:00.001-08:002012-11-06T14:48:30.742-08:00Diving InThe iPads are finally here and we dove right in and are working out all the logistics together. The tech crew spent hours (no seriously, hours!) on the phone with Apple. They finally got me set up to I can purchase my own apps through the Apple's Education Store. You must buy a volume lease for each app on each iPad, but all the apps I have bought so far had a considerable discount and didn't break the bank too bad. I ended up buying 20 licenses because it was the same price as 10. One can only hope that the future is bringing more iPads my way! I wrote $200 into my grant for apps. My tech guru set me up with two $100 dollar vouchers. This is the smallest increment when buying the vouchers from Apple so take note when writing a grant! I do have to say just one my shout out to the tech crew, Omar, Drew, and Scott! They spent so much time putting the cases on, figuring out Apple's system for education, and then personally delivery them to my art room and syncing them up! The iPads automatically sync when I download an app to my iTunes account on my classroom computer, so I don't have to individually manage all ten! We named the iPads color names, red, yellow, green, etc to coordinate with how my tables are labeled. The green table then always uses the green iPad. Hopefully this will help me keep track of projects and possible problems! <br />
katiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12232739949343964924noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320517506985805361.post-71776753023410499332012-09-06T14:54:00.001-07:002012-09-06T14:54:56.585-07:00Multi-functionalityWell, the iPads are on their way. I bought Apple's 10 pack they offer to educators with the Apple Care Plus. I wrote the grant before the New iPad came out, so I actually had asked for more than the price they are now. Technology works that way! With the money gained from the price difference we looked into getting Apple TV but the hook ups didn't quite work out. Instead, I opted for a digital visualizer. I got the Ladybug and it has changed the way I teach. I've only had it for a few days, but it makes such a difference when students can watch you demo up close on the screen. I know every single student has the same opportunity to see and I have a much clearer view of the kids for classroom management. Last school year I was teaching 5th grade about perspective and I needed this set up. What did I turn to? But of course, the multi-functional iPad! All it took was a VGA hook up to my computer monitor and a file box, for height. What can't the iPad do?<div class="separator"style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBngL9bPkCDQOAM0DuaW0-P6PujvHyFAyvHSzBiQeV89dBEvgnZO9fVJJf8pe1Ivl7qibtlZdQFIo7DfNyD2iUn-vhDR-R8gLA4JekEiJPYQhxuvWfZDbPMHi6XG1KDNNJvjr-8uPrB3_Q/s640/blogger-image-506131830.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBngL9bPkCDQOAM0DuaW0-P6PujvHyFAyvHSzBiQeV89dBEvgnZO9fVJJf8pe1Ivl7qibtlZdQFIo7DfNyD2iUn-vhDR-R8gLA4JekEiJPYQhxuvWfZDbPMHi6XG1KDNNJvjr-8uPrB3_Q/s640/blogger-image-506131830.jpg" /></a></div>katiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12232739949343964924noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320517506985805361.post-41200319462028101792012-08-22T14:01:00.001-07:002012-08-22T14:06:20.494-07:00Process over ProductionMy curriculum is an assemblage. It is not pretty and perfect on paper (although I try my hardest on Google calendar and the gazillion spreadsheets I've made ) but when put into process my curriculum accounts for the students, encounters, lines of flight, and all the little nuances of an art classroom environment. I teach artmaking with a developed plan of process. I teach students PLAY, SKILL BUILDING, KNOWLEDGE BUILDING, and help them make PERSONAL CONNECTIONS. After all these processes are are achieved, we make art that has MEANING. <br />
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I recently took a graduate class at The Ohio State University and the word assemblage was part of a new language we learned from the philosopher Deleuze. We used process to understand his concepts. I didn't always understand the class material in readings or when we were given assignments. As soon as I dove into the process however, concepts became clearer and understanding happened. <br />
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This is how I want my students to learn---with moments of discovery and new understandings. I don't want the curriculum to be all about producing pretty things for spectators to gasp at, but a curriculum that is deep and considers more than fancy new tools---it considers the student. <br />
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My goal is to include the iPads in all parts of my curriculum and enhance the process of artmaking that I believe is so important to a contemporary art curriculum. Stay tuned...katiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12232739949343964924noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320517506985805361.post-79382920418030093852012-07-07T18:47:00.002-07:002012-07-07T18:49:13.446-07:00the beginningLast fall I called my tech guru at work and asked him if he would support me writing a tech grant. I asked him how many iPads he thought I should ask for and to my surprise his answer was a class set! Really!?!? You think the foundation will support that? YES! Apparently, art teachers are making the best cases for why this technology needs to be in our curriculum and it worked! 10 iPads are scheduled to be in my classroom this coming fall! <br />
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Since the online community had given me the research I needed to write my grant, (and I won!) I think I should share my experience and add to the dialogue that us art teachers are creating a buzz about. So here it is.....katiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12232739949343964924noreply@blogger.com0