See my post on theater games in art class here.
See a post about the Spect-art-acles game or download our bingo game.
Below is a video describing how we play:
Connect-a-concept Game from Tricia Fuglestad on Vimeo.
I'm taking my fourth graders on a field trip to the Art Institute of Chicago tomorrow and playing art games with them to prepare. Today we will try a new game I designed modeled after a dinner party theater game called, Connect-a-Concept. See my post on theater games in art class here. See a post about the Spect-art-acles game or download our bingo game. Below is a video describing how we play: Connect-a-concept Game from Tricia Fuglestad on Vimeo. Below you can hear Grace share a thought about the game. Add Comment Many art rooms have document cameras and interactive boards. But not many art rooms can use them both at the same time. Most fancy expensive document cameras connect to your projector on a separate stream from the interactive board which is mirroring your computer. So you have to switch sources from one to the other. However, when you use a usb document camera, like iPEVO's, your can use them both together. This has been extremely helpful in my art room. I was using it all day today with a collage project. Below you can see that I wanted to teach the students to draw half of a vase on the folded side of their paper. I was able to freeze the image and draw over it, label it with digital ink, and draw without really drawing so I could demonstrate what to do and what not to do as well as any other helpful information alongside (see the second image below). MimioConnect is an online community of teachers generating and sharing interactive resources created in Mimio. This software is available for free for both Mac and PC. When my Art Education PLN began discussing spinner games for the classroom, I immediately thought of Mimio software. Instead of spending lots of money, you can make it for free, change it with a few clicks, add music, and store it all digitally.
I logged into my MimioConnect account and found this spinner, downloaded it, customized it in a few minutes and now it's ready to use. Download my version here. I really love the iPhone/iPad game, Draw Something for how it trains the players to communicate words visually. This social media enhanced one-to-one game doesn't work very well in my classroom yet as it is designed. So, I made an offline version to play on the interactive board featuring a collection of my saved drawings from games I was playing over the past month. I had enough that each of my students can take one turn trying to guess the word and spell it correctly. This worked great with my first graders who are just learning to read, write, and grow their vocabulary. You can download my game in PDF form here. The next round for this game would be to let the students do the drawing after picking a random word from a hat. This will make a perfect end-of-the-year-we-can't-make-a-mess-in-my-clean-art-room-but-still-learn-and-have-fun Game. By the way, did you notice that I'm sharing a file from my dropbox? Want to learn how to do this too. Watch my screencast video here. |