Dryden Art in the Tribune 12/22/2011
Dryden art teacher unites art, technology  The halls of Dryden Elementary are like the walls of a mini art museum, filled with Lima bean monsters, spoofs of Rene Magritte’s “The Son of Man” and a massive tile mosaic of student artwork. Art teacher Tricia Fuglestad is making her mark on Dryden – one wall at a time – but she’s also making one internationally with her forward-thinking use of technology in the art classroom. Read the whole article from Tribune reporter Michelle Stoffel at this link. Add Comment Dryden students participated in the Students Rebuild project to help Japan after the earthquake. by folding paper cranes and mailing them to the foundation. Each crane would trigger funding for recovery and reconstruction from the Bezos Family Foundation. The goal was 100,000 cranes, which would trigger $200,000 to fund Architecture for Humanity's reconstruction efforts in the devastated Tohoku region of Japan. The response—an incredible 2 million cranes from young people in 38 countries worldwide and all 50 U.S. states—exceeded our wildest hopes. Wowed by the global outpouring of support for Japan, celebrated artist Vik Muniz generously donated his time, his vision and his creativity to produce a magnificent piece of original artwork using thousands of the cranes. "It's alchemic," said Vik Muniz, in The New York Times Sunday Magazine story. "It worked because everyone wanted to help." Watch the video below to learn more about the project, the art installation, and the artist who volunteered to help. We purchased the poster and have it hung in the hallway. It is so detailed that you can probably find your own paper crane in the image. Make-a-Flake 12/16/2011
We spent some time this week combining science, art, and technology while celebrating the winter season. We first watched this Brain Pop video about the science behind snowflakes. Then we used this interactive website to make our own snowflake. Students emailed their flake to me for our online digital art gallery. View here.Take a look at our Make-a-flake digital lesson below: ART ED ROCKS THE Edublog Awards 2011! 12/14/2011
Many art education online resources, blogs, wikis, learning networks, and more were nominated this year for the global Edublog Awards. And even better, many were shortlisted!!! The votes were tallied and the results were shared on Dec. 14th during a live webcast. Take a look at see how Art Education Rocked the Eddies 11! View these amazing resources: Best Group Blog: The Teaching Palette (finalist) theteachingpalette.com/ Best New Blog: Dryden Art Blog (finalist) drydenart.weebly.com/fugleblog.html Best Twitter Hashtag: #artsed (finalist) twitter.com/#!/search/%23artsed Best Social Network: Art Ed2.0 arted20.ning.com/ Best Use of Audio/Video/Podcast: Dryden Art drydenart.weebly.com/fugleflicks.html Best Educational Wiki: Art Online Studio ibart.wetpaint.com/ Best Teacher Blog: Brunswick Acres Art baart.weebly.com/-blognews.html Are they Listening? 12/14/2011
There is only a few more days left before we break for winter...but we still need good listeners in the art room! How can we learn without listening? I made this Fugleflick video to remind my students what good listeners does. Use it as often as you need this week! Santa Up Close and Abstracted 12/13/2011
Third graders painted an up close and cropped portrait of Santa much like Andy Warhol's Santa image. Then they used the ipods to photograph and apply a customized effect using the Percolator App. View our santa up close gallery here: artsonia.com/museum/gallery.asp?exhibit=466764 View our percolated santa gallery here: artsonia.com/museum/gallery.asp?exhibit=466767 Watch this video to see their work and the process: Simon's Cat 12/13/2011
To lighten things up during our last week of school before break I've been introducing my students to the wonderful animations of Simon Tofield. He is the animator of Simon's Cats. Here are two videos I plan on showing: Simon's Cat in Santa Claws: http://www.simonscat.com/Films/Santa-Claws/ And Simon Draws Simon's cat: http://www.simonscat.com/Blog/2011-11-21/Simon-Draws-Simons-Cat/ When I was searching around Simon's website: http://www.simonscat.com I found that he has a bunch of great apps available. I downloaded the free one to play with my students today. Take a look below: When students completed their drawings, they used the iPods to photograph send to me. I uploaded their work to Artsonia already! Take a look here. It was only a theory when I first posted my thoughts on how to teach my kindergartners how to access their digital template for making their digital snowmen paintings. View my video of how I planned to teach this here. This past week was our first experience trying to see how kindergartners could handle all the steps, concepts, and button pushing necessary to do this technique. It took every moment of my 1/2hr art class to walk them through the steps from turning on the wifi to importing the saved image into the Brushes App, but WOW they did it! I don't know how I would do this without the Apple TV. I need to walk around the room, demo, and show my screen all at once to do a really good job and Apple TV's ability to mirror my iPad exactly is perfect for this!  Little Dancing Holiday Monster 12/07/2011
Thanks Ryan (one of my fifth graders) for showing me this animation site. After about one minute of drawing I was able to make this Little Dancing Holiday Monster! Go here to make yours!http://onemorelevel.com/game/draw_your_own_cartoon Erase the Bullying to the Erasers! 12/07/2011
BE KIND TO YOUR ERASERS and ERASE THE BULLYING!  I witnessed an eraser getting stabbed during art class yesterday. Of all the kids in all the classes in all the art rooms across the country...why is this still happening here? Do they know that Dryden School is where erasers first had their revenge? Have we so quickly forgotten the terrifying events that threatened to wipe out the art as once happy erasers finally revolted after countless abuses? Be kind to your erasers. And while you're at it, be kind to people too. No one wants to be treated meanly. Watch the movie, Be Kind to Your Erasers below. | 
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About MeTricia Fuglestad, NBCT 07 is the K-5 art teacher at Dryden Elementary School in Arlington Heights, IL. Archivestads
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