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Thursday, October 21, 2010
Wednesday, October 20, 2010
PE6- Photoshop
PE4- Photoshop
Sunday, October 17, 2010
Saturday, October 16, 2010
PE3- Photoshop
PE2- Photoshop
This one I took two paintings of mine and overlapped them for the first time. I tried to play with the smudge tool to make them blend better, but the most comp;licated part for me here was layering and using the vector tool and polygon tool to cut around the shape I wanted to keep. Lynda.com helped me with the cutting.
PE1- Photoshop
BP9-Carbonmade.com
At Carbonmade.com, you can set up a digital portfolio of your artwork. You can choose a specific type of art you like to create, keep an up to date profile of yourself including your location, favorite medium, about me, and much more. You can post pictures of work you’ve created, create captions for them, or even upload videos. You can also see the favorite portfolio’s that the website has chosen as a favorite for that day and look at other people’s artwork. This would create a great atmosphere for students to go in to look at what other people are creating to boost their own creativity. You can also email the artist asking them questions, read other people’s artist statements, or collaborate with other artists online. You may even have students log in and look and critique artwork to get students used to critiquing modern artwork in a productive way. One of my challenges in my classroom is students feel like they cannot talk about artwork because they do not know enough about it. This is a more secretive way to start where students wouldn’t feel inhibited.
You can choose to log in for free and upload up to 35 images. If you are willing to pay for more space, you can pay $12 a month and upload up to 500 images and 10 videos. It offers a URL that you can give out to people where they can come to see your work making it easy and accessible to showcase your work. Also, it offers a space for artists alike to come gather and see each other’s work online. It’s a GREAT tool!
Image thanks to Carbonmade.com
Sunday, October 10, 2010
Wednesday, October 6, 2010
BP5- DFilm
DFilm would be an EXCELLENT tool I could absolutely use in my art Classroom! My students are currently working on making movie posters. We talk about movie plot ideas that have not been made before, and they create characters and dates to put on their movie poster. They then create a layout to benefit their movie poster by deciding what images tell a story in the best and most direct way possible.
Another project grade for these students is their presentation of their poster. They have to talk about why they chose the layout they did and why it was important to use the images and text they chose. So a more interactive and entertaining way to present their poster idea could be to make a preview for it to present their ideas. I think this would absolutely draw more interest from the students and it the outcome would definitely be beneficial to students self esteems about both presenting and artwork.
If you watch the video’s I’ve posted, it’s such a simple tool that an Elementary School student could use it. You start out by choosing you background. The application then chooses which genre of movie that the background most benefits and tells you. For example, a dark night scene may specify a horror or suspense movie. Then you can choose two characters off of a list to have an interaction, and then choose their interaction. You can have them engage in a rendezvous, a chase, etc. Then it is as easy as typing their dialogue into a chat box and voila, you have a movie!
Another project grade for these students is their presentation of their poster. They have to talk about why they chose the layout they did and why it was important to use the images and text they chose. So a more interactive and entertaining way to present their poster idea could be to make a preview for it to present their ideas. I think this would absolutely draw more interest from the students and it the outcome would definitely be beneficial to students self esteems about both presenting and artwork.
If you watch the video’s I’ve posted, it’s such a simple tool that an Elementary School student could use it. You start out by choosing you background. The application then chooses which genre of movie that the background most benefits and tells you. For example, a dark night scene may specify a horror or suspense movie. Then you can choose two characters off of a list to have an interaction, and then choose their interaction. You can have them engage in a rendezvous, a chase, etc. Then it is as easy as typing their dialogue into a chat box and voila, you have a movie!
Sunday, October 3, 2010
Saturday, October 2, 2010
BP4-Web 2.0
My commercial for Playlistnow.fm. I LOVE this tool! I'm definitely going to show my students this on Monday morning. I hope they use it and feel comfortable using it because I am mentally exhausted by listening to Lady Gaga and Justin Bieber over and over again everyday!
Friday, October 1, 2010
Tuesday, September 28, 2010
BP2_iGoogleScreenShots
BP2_iGoogleScreenShots
Here are my iGoogle Screenshots with all the necessities!
BP1- Google Reader
Edutopia- http://www.edutopia.org/crss/node/6222
This site will be very important for me because it argues the importance or a great Art Education in schools. There are many different arguments as to why the arts are so important as well as justifying a reason for the arts to remain in schools. Now more then ever, school boards are questioning which programs are the most important to keep due to massive budget cuts country wide. This feed will help me stay on top of why my field is so important as well as provide back up ideas if I ever need to fight for my position.
NAEA- http://feeds2.feedburner.com/inaea
This site will primarily be for keeping me up to date in Arts Education. I know that a a teacher sometimes we can get caught up in teaching the same things the same way. The blessing I have being the Art Teacher is that I can mold my curriculum to fit what I want students to accomplish when they are with me. This site will hopefully serve to provide me with new ideas as well as keep me up to date in the art world.
DeviantArt- Popular in the last 8 hours- http://backend.deviantart.com/rss.xml?q=boost%3Apopular+meta%3Aall+max_age%3A8h&type=deviation&offset=0
This site uploads a few photographs of artwork that has been popular or been hit a lot on the popular website DeviantArt. Sometimes just seeing a piece will spark an idea in my head of a new lesson for my students, and sometimes will inspire me to go outside of my box. This alone will serve purposeful to me because it will catch my attention and force me to look at new art on a regular basis.
The Carrot Revolution: A Blog About Art Education… and Vegetables. http://carrotrevolution.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default
This is a site where Art Educators can share photographs, videos, and blogs about their day to day experience in their classrooms and what they have learned from it. This will be instrumental for me to reflect on my classroom. I feel that reflection or just talking about what went well and what you could do better is so helpful to educators because it really helps you sift out pertinent information to enable you to teach better.
The Teaching Palette- http://feeds.feedburner.com/theteachingpalette
This is similar to the last site, where teachers can reflect on their day to day, what works, and what does not. However, this also talks about classroom set up, how to store materials, how to keep track of artwork, how to set up your class to best benefit the students, and also posts pictures to help people to better understand what they mean. It also includes cross curricular and multicultural ideas.
Again, the list, CHECK THEM OUT!:
1) Edutopia- http://www.edutopia.org/crss/node/6222
2) NAEA- http://feeds2.feedburner.com/inaea
3) DeviantArt- Popular in the last 8 hours- http://backend.deviantart.com
4) The Carrot Revolution: A Blog About Art Education… and Vegetables. http://carrotrevolution.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default
5) The Teaching Palette- http://feeds.feedburner.com/theteachingpalette
Photograph provided by Meghan Bassett
Friday, August 27, 2010
Creating animated Banners using Flash by Thanh
References
Perkins, T. (2010). Flash Professional CS5 Essential Training. Retrieved August 25 from http://www.lynda.com/home/DisplayCourse.aspx?lpk2=59964
Thursday, August 26, 2010
Wednesday, August 25, 2010
Friday, August 13, 2010
UpShot5!!! Meet the group!
The following pictures are of my amazing group members!!! Check them out!
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