Artsonia Just Keeps Getting Better!

11/16/2012

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Not only is Artsonia our online digital art gallery, it is also a place where you can put your child's art on tons of wonderful products. Many Dryden parents have bought items from the gift shop featuring their favorite young artist's pieces. Artsonia has raised the percentage that they donate back to our art program for each purchase from 15% to 20%. Thank you Artsonia. This will make a HUGE difference. Dryden's art program could really use another dedicated iPad for student use in the art room. So this will help us raise the funds we need to purchase this! Here are some ideas for how I would like to use it on a daily basis in the art room.
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I LOVE making art and putting it on Artsonia products for gifts. We use Artsonia for smocks, LMC mouse pads, T-Shirt awards for the Hall of Fame, tiles for our Art History Wall and so much more. But as I said in the title of this post, Artsonia keeps getting better. They just started allowing users to upload PHOTOS in the gift shop (see example below). This means you can buy items with your favorite snapshot on it and donate 20% of this purchase to Dryden! 
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We have a large and growing collection of mugs in our home right now full of student and personal art from over the years.

Now that Artsonia has added Art Snappables to their collection I wear my art on my necklace. I switch out the images to match my mood or clothing. Our students love it.
Browse the products with this link.
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Reflect-o-vision

06/05/2012

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My last group of 3rd graders reflected on what they learned in art class this year. 
Then, they created a tiny video recording saying what their favorite project was and why.
From what I was hearing,  winning project for the year was: 
The Doink Animation Project. View it here.
These little videos were added to their digital portfolios that they will receive at the end of 5th grade. They will be so excited to view these again in a couple years.
This is the video I use to introduce the Reflect-o-vision lesson.
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Burning Digital Portfolios

05/15/2012

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This is our 6th year of burning digital portfolios in art class with our graduating 5th graders. I have a working portfolio for every student at Dryden on my harddrive that I add to each time we have a finished piece of art, video, or random snapshot. Students are always surprised to see the things that I've saved for them over the years. They each get a CD with their artwork and a shared folder that has anything from field trip pictures to snapshots from the first day of school in kindergarten. 
Our portfolio envelop has a feedback form. Students who show their discs to their families, sign the form, & return it by next art class will be entered into a raffle for great prizes.
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Looking at her Kindergarten wear-a-bow art.
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Looking at her paper crane for Japan
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Looking at his Kindergarten self-portrait.
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Looking at the picture used for iPod graphic
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Our 5th graders as they looked on the first day of Kindergarten
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Here is Kayley as a first grader working on her Monochromatic fish painting.
We use ARTSONIA as our online digital art gallery. This allows students to see their growth and learning over time before our Digital Portfolio Burning Day. 
Learn more about digital portfolios from our Fugleflick video below:
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