Today went rather smoothly. Finishing up editing and adding credits was a breeze, all until the end when I had no idea that compressing my file in imovie would make everything tiny. I did try it in youtube at full compression, it didnt take that much longer and made it better but still not up to par. I give this a 4.5 out of five because while the program is pretty genius, it had a lot of cliches. I hope you like my movie, I am sorry the words are small. I made it out of love for the art education program and the full service schools and I feel that I could use this movie later so I am sure I will finish what I started in movie maker so that I could show Dr. Cramer. I was proud of my volunteer project and so very proud of the children.
Blogging has become an integral part of our social world. We have opened up our worlds voice by way of the internet. For this class I am so glad to have found that google encompasses its own blog, and I can have multiple blogs. I have had some issues with the picture, I do not really like that the html code is how we upload the picture. But i did learn that I can move the html code around the text and it will text wrap.
I do plan on using more blogs in the future. Depending on the school rules I would use a class blog or at the very least a blog amongst my peers. I am in the process of gathering information for a community art blog for Knoxville and it is inspired by this class's use of googles blogger.
This particular blog is my technology blog. I have posted on all ten assignments in which are labeled so that it is easy to decipher. I have not decided if I will keep up with this particular blog and use it to spread the word of new technology that i find. I am more apt to start a blog about art or Knoxville ongoings.
I want to point out the responsibility of a blog to its owner. One, whatever you say will be roaming around in cyber space, perhaps forever. Delete may not actually mean gone. This is very important to also advise your students. Take ownership!
Also, if you are going to make something community based, then make sure it is updated often because people may start to depend on your blog. Then it if its not updated, it is a waste of cyper-space ;)
I started using movie maker while creating my digital movie. I like using it, but I elected to change to imovie since the entire class was using it. However, I was really excited that movie maker was available on my PC, and I plan on using it much more. It is as user friendly as iMovie, and has pretty much all the same features. I am sure there is not a transfer from movie maker to imovie, but I did not get that far.
Today in class I uploaded my pictures, added transitions, and started to add text. I agree with the majority that adding text is frustrating. Imovie seems to have a lot of cliches and at one point I had to close the program and restart to use a feature. However, over all I do like the program and I like uploading the music and watching the clips follow along. I feel that if using this program I would use actual video instead of still frames, but for purposes of this class, it makes a nice presentation. I will definitely use this program or movie maker to make a presentation of works with my students. It is a great way of documenting!
Once I am done, i will post the movie both here and at my website. I am excited to show off my volunteer project in a more professional manner. I have a hard time bragging about my achievements, so this makes it a little easier and fun to watch. I give this assignment 3 Stars.
Also Here are the lyrics to my Imovie music, I wanted to blog a bit about my selection of music. Elvis Perkins, the singer/song writer of "While You Were Sleeping", is the son of a well known actor Anthony Perkins (father) and well known photographer Berry Berenson(mother). His father died of Aids in 1992 and his mother died in the 911 incident in 2001.
This song is about not letting moments pass by.The song references his mother's death. The album "Ash Wednesday" is a chronological sequence of songs written before (tracks 1-6) and after (tracks 7-11) the events of 9/11 including his mother's death. I feel that it fits the story because dealing with time is sacred. Each passing moment means a lifetime. It is easy to take for granted each breath that we take. I feel these children at title-one schools look forward to after school programs and teachers who praise their creativity. It is a beautiful song.
While You Were Sleeping
while you were sleeping the babies grew the stars shined and the shadows moved time flew, the phone rang there was a silence when the kitchen sang its songs competed like kids for space we stared for hours in our maker's face they gave us picks said go mine the sun and go gold and come back when you're done
while you were sleeping you tossed, you turned you rolled your eyes as the world burned the heavens fell, the earth quaked i thought you must be, but you weren't awake no, you were sleeping you ignored the sun you grew your power garden for your little ones and you found brides for them on christmas eve they hung young cain from the adam trees and danced
while you were sleeping i tossed and i turned til i closed my eyes but the future burned through the planet turned a hair gray as i relived the day
while you were sleeping the money died machines were harmless and the earth sighed through the wind you slept sound and gravity caught my love around the ocean rose, sang about decay while witches flew and the mermaids stayed full of dreams, you overslept and keeping with quiet, through the walls i crept i walked on tiptoe, sent darkness swirling over all the kitchen in the early morning i'll never catch up to you who sleeps so sound my arms are useless my heart beats too loud to go to sleep my mind's too proud to bow out
while you were sleeping the time changed all your things were rearranged your vampire mirrors face to face they saw forever out into space and found you dreaming in black and white while it rained in all the colors of the night i watched the tvs memories championships vanished to sea could it be, my honey between you and me so i waited for the riddled sky to be solved again by sunrise and i've made a death suit for life for my father's ill widowed wife did you have that strangest dream before you woke cos in your gown you had the butterfly stroke did it escape you like some half told joke? when you reached for your plume of smoke it'll haunt you, my honey bee anyone who is anyone has that same dream were you falling were you flying and were you calling out or were you dying thank god you're up now let's stay that way else there'll be no mornings and no more days cos when we're dreaming our babies grow the sun shines and the shadows flow time flies the phone rings there is a silence and everybody tries to sing
I did enjoy this assignment. I feel that it is important to know how to make a solid lesson plan that students feel is fun and can learn a lot from. Doing research is the best way for a student to familiarize themselves with both the topic and the internet.
I had a hard time with the template of the lesson plan. Next time I will need to highlight the entire page so that the font is not different. It was also hard to de-program from the usual lesson plans that I am use to making in my Art Education classes. However, I know that once I get the hang of this it will be easy as well.
I can see using this as a one time report for the year. In an art class the focus will be on making projects so there will not be a lot of time for extras, but since this can be done as an internet research project, I feel that is something I can actually add to my lesson plans.
I feel that knowing who important artists are and the way they impact their time-line is VERY important. This goes for art time periods as well. I really enjoyed making this a tangible lesson plan so that I can use it later. I give this assignment 3.75 stars out of five!
When I first found out I was going to be doing a wiki page I was really excited. Especially an Art wiki that I could control and that other people would be assisting in updating. However, this adventure turned sour. The wiki itself was pretty easy to use, however, the time and effort I spent in the wiki seemed futile when it was either changed or left undone by the other members.
Setting up the page went great, adding the pictures and content. I learned a lot about linking and annotations. It was depending on the other members to follow the same format, or to even seem interested in making a good wiki, that became frustrating.
Next time I would have members that I know who would treat the wiki seriously. I would love to use this in my classroom or even just among other art teachers. I know that once I am out in the professional world that I will find people who will be able to check their own errors, and make actual contributions to make the page useful and fun. However, for now I did not like this assignment. I give this assignment a 2.5 stars out of five
We uploaded our classroom folder for our website. Having an e-folio as I mentioned in a previous log is very convenient and helpful to show all that I have been working towards. I knew that we could upload projects, however, I did not know how to zip and upload until this class. This way the file is compressed and ready to load all the contents of the folder in one easy upload. At home as you see here, we do not have winzip, but the conversion of jzip works as well. As I learn more about a Mac, I seem to discover more about my PC.
My teaching website was particularly hard for me only because I am a particular person. I really enjoyed thinking ahead to what my class may want on the site and I know that I could spend hours tweaking here and there to make improvements. The basis of my website is obviously art, but I want to make it more and more user friendly for both parents and students and possible other students. It is hard to gather information about all the local art stores, on goings, events in school, and assignments. So like google, I want to be a one stop shop for all their art needs.
Art has a hard time translating information through out the schools. If I promote my website from day one, then I can have some parents looking at student works in class and participating in more art school events, and art community events.
There are some options I have not tried on the website. It is mostly user friendly, however, where I want to put my pictures or the choice of font styles is lacking. I do keep in mind that it is a FREE site and the options may be limited but still vast.
This project is easily 4.5 stars out of five, because I have always wanted a website and it is exciting that now I know how to set one up and use in my classroom.
I think that having an online portfolio is possibly the best idea for this day and age. Since we are an age of technology it only makes sense that we have our professional information easily accessible and on the web. It serves both environmentally friendly as well as a time saver. I did have some problems with spacing but we figured that out in class.
I am enthralled that the University of Tennessee allows you to use the learning central e-portfolio. I feel that my information is safe and accessible even to me. I can add to my profile as well as edit when I feel it is necessary. I am a little concerned about after school is done and it is something that I will need to inquire as to how long we are able to access it. However, in the mean time I have found other sites that have e-portfolios. Like the National Art Education Association website I blogged about earlier. As an art teacher you can have an e-portfolio ready to be accessed anytime. This makes job hunting a lot easier and if you have a lot to share and want to impress, the e-folio gives you a chance to show what you know! Also I wont lose what is important ;). Having this available is exciting and I give this a 4.75 out of five stars.
Inspiration is a wonderful software program that is VERY useful to Art Teachers. Teachers can link art periods together, artists, works of art, etc together. This program was incredibly user friendly and very innovative.
I had some trouble with using the footer and it did not show until you used the print preview option. Perhaps there is an way to view it that I did not discover, but I feel this is not a very user friendly option. I would probably write the footer on my outline before I would the actual diagram.
Other than this I can most definitely use this in my classroom. I especially liked hyper-linking the pictures of the paintings in my diagram to websites that would give more information on the artist's of the time period. Also the way that you can incorporate pictures and color make it a brilliant online interactive lesson.
I feel this is a that is especially helpful to have ready before any lesson plan. Something that either the child can study and have as a quiz later; a study guide if you will. Or just simply as a guide to understanding the many levels of art history. It can be confusing!
On a scale from one to ten I would give this program an overall 4.5 out of five stars.
I watched the Disney Copy Right video and was blown away. It was incredibly smart and helpful. I tried to imagine how many hours of editing it took to splice all the words they wanted to say into the movie. Not to mention hours of watching the film and making sure they were up to par with Disney copyright laws. It was incredibly witty and I watched it twice as well as shared it with some of my friends. I would definitely show this to my class room if I were in upper level middle school and high school classes. I think it is important to know the laws of copyright because negligence with the law will not be tolerated.
At first it was a little hard to hear because of the splice but once my ear was trained to listen in was really fun. I had no idea about the 14 year ownership, then public domain. I have not had a use to copyright anything of my own, but I will definitely start looking up copyright laws. Especially in art. If you have not had a chance to view this video please take a few minutes and enjoy:
Today in class we did a digital scavenger hunt. In which we had to look for basic art principles around campus, take a picture, then upload, re-size, then finally make into a presentation in good presentation (another advantage of Google). Taking the pictures and uploading was pretty easy and everything seems to go smoothly. I do have to redo my screen shot tomorrow before class because I did not expand the folder to show my original pictures that I renamed and re-sized. Next time I will have to slow down and re-read my directions.
I feel that I learned another activity I could plan for my students when I become an art teacher. Have the children go outside and take pictures for a project or even an art scavenger hunt would let them use a mixed media approach. A lot of artists these days depend on their digital cameras and photo manipulation as part of their process. Regardless if they are a painter or sculpture, digital cameras become very useful tools in the creation process.
I do enjoy using Picasa and the Google Presentation. As I mentioned in a previous blog it is nice and convenient to have Google be so versatile with Word type programs, that even convert to Word. I have always loved Google. This is a 4.75 star for me based on the convenience and user friendly nature, I also loved going out of the classroom to have a hunt!
The search for the perfect photo, reduce, re-size, edit, 72 pixel resolution. Since the evolution of the computer to the internet and the digital camera, illustrator, graphic design explosion. It was really neat the other day in class when we captured as many clip-art and pictures as we could in the Big Box. However, I did have trouble after I captured the clip-art with the image being a bit to small so when capturing all those images, next time I will need to re-size a little larger.
However, it was even neater to utilize Google as an all encompassing program with this blog, email, calendar, documents, internet site, and PICASA!!! Picasa is like a Flicker upload center for all your digital pictures, however, the best thing about it, its in Google! So you have a one stop shop for all your digital technological needs.
It seems basic, but really important to have organization in your photo picture and clip art set up. It takes time and I plan on doing this soon, but organizing your clip arts and photos will save SOOOO much time.
My students may not have an opportunity to capture pictures of their own out of the big box of images, however, with parental permission setting up a Picasa of their own I feel would be a great way for students to start their own creative processes. Organizing themselves early on so that when they do see a picture on the web, in clip art, or they take themselves they will be able to grab it anytime and anywhere! I give this project a 3.5 out of five stars.
Today in class we did an evaluation of a website of our choice in referenced to or teaching path. Since I am on the Art Education path I googled "art education websites" and I stumbled upon the National Art Education Association website. I was very pleased with this site for many reasons. First, it says in its mission statement that it is a place for teachers and students and many others to share in the belief of the power of arts.
Here is the exact statement from the website:
"This dynamic community of practice is where visual arts teachers, scholars, researchers and professors, students, administrators, and art museum educators, and artists come together around a shared belief in the power of the arts in developing human potential."
I have never made a formal assessment on a website before so this was a great way to see if it was appropriate and useful for the classroom and as a resource. While I was going through the assessment I found it helpful to understand where to look for things like the author of the site and when it was last updated. While this site does have a system administrator it is clear that it takes a collaborative effort to maintain this site. I am most interested in the classroom gallery that introduces student art from around the U.S. I feel this is a great way for my art students to see what students from different parts of the country are making and hopefully will be an inspiration to them. In addition there are many resources for teachers as well like job, scholarly and research articles, and even a blog site for any teacher to subscribe to and write for. These are all things that I learned today to look for when I look at resources for my classroom. It is important because once I find helpful websites I can then post them on my wiki, blogs, and websites to share with other teachers. This was an easy necessary assignment, I give this assignment 4.5 out of five stars.
Daft Punk is an electronic music duo consisting of French musicians Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo (born February 8, 1974) and Thomas Bangalter (born January 3, 1975).[1] Daft Punk reached significant popularity in the late 1990s house movement in France and were met with continued success in the years following.
This is a video of one of my favorite bands "Daft Punk". They became famous about 1993 and have used electronic bits, samples, and technology in their music even before a lot of the new advances today. "Technologic" is a song by French duo from their album Human After All. It was released as the second single on June 14, 2005. The music video for "Technologic" was directed by Daft Punk. The song was featured in an iPod advertisement shown in the summer of 2005. It was also featured in an ad for the Motorola E398 mobile-phone, aired in early 2005 in Brazil. Their song "Technologic" is a bit repetitive, however, I feel is a good example of the era we are in and how long we have come. The video
THE LYRICS:
Buy it, use it, break it, fix it, Trash it, change it, mail - upgrade it, Charge it, pawn it, zoom it, press it, Snap it, work it, quick - erase it, Write it, cut it, paste it, save it, Load it, check it, quick - rewrite it, Plug it, play it, burn it, rip it, Drag and drop it, zip - unzip it, Lock it, fill it, call it, find it, View it, code it, jam - unlock it, Surf it, scroll it, pause it, click it, Cross it, crack it, switch - update it, Name it, rate it, tune it, print it, Scan it, send it, fax - rename it, Touch it, bring it, Pay it, watch it, Turn it, leave it, start - format it.
Buy it, use it, break it, fix it, Trash it, change it, mail - upgrade it, Charge it, pawn it, zoom it, press it, Snap it, work it, quick - erase it, Write it, cut it, paste it, save it, Load it, check it, quick - rewrite it, Plug it, play it, burn it, rip it, Drag and drop it, zip - unzip it, Lock it, fill it, call it, find it, View it, code it, jam - unlock it, Surf it, scroll it, pause it, click it, Cross it, crack it, switch - update it, Name it, rate it, tune it, print it, Scan it, send it, fax - rename it Touch it, bring it, pay it, watch it, Turn it, leave it, start - format it.
This is not my first blog, but it is my first technology blog. I am a moderate user of technology using cell phones, social networking sites, ipods, etc. However, I have never expanded these uses beyond selfish indulgences and self-promotion. The idea of using these in the classroom really excites me, because it is tough to express to many people at once how important Art is in school. This way once I am in the classroom both students, parents, and teachers will be able to read up on what I am doing and how they contribute.
I look forward to building this blog up and then continuing an "Art Blog" after this class. It is exciting that I may be able to build up the Art moral in school and put out easy accessible information. As an art teacher it is hard to maintain an entire school wide population and I can see already how blogs, websites, and wikis keep everyone in the know. I imagine showing the students my blog and website the first day of class and then telling them to show their parents. Also these will be great for the community to also know what their local schools are doing and how maybe they can contribute to the school's art program.
