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Flying figure drawn on iPads w/SketchbookX
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Tar Beach Inspired landscape
Edited as an animation in Keynote (from iWorks suite)
More about this project:
1. Fifth graders used this template to help them create their self-portrait flying on the iPads using Sketchbook Express. They deleted the template and emailed just their final drawings. See the gallery of images here.

2. Students were inspired by the story, Tar Beach, by Faith Ringgold while creating a landscape that was to show depth, overlapping, and a high horizon line. See the gallery of images here.

3. Students used Keynote to animate the digital figure and landscapes. I created a tutorial showing all the steps to help them. View it below or here. I put screenshots from their animation movie on artsoniain this gallery

4. Students helped sing and compose an original flying song using garageband on the  iPad (using the built-in instruments) and the desktop version to add voices.
 
 
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Step One: Download Template

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Step Two: Download your background image

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Step Three:
Download your flying figure

5th Grade Animation Assignment
1. Make sure your file is labeled with your name and class section 
(example: Sally5-1animation.mov)
2. Click THIS LINK to be directed to my http://dropitto.me/fuglefun site
3. Enter password DOLPHIN
4. Choose your file and click upload
5. Click here to write your artist statement about why you are flying.

 
 
I'm gearing up for the school year by collecting my resources and making them easily available for anyone who wants to learn some of my tips for how to create on the iPad. There are tons of apps in the app store, but I tried to limit my ideas to only a few so that we can work with what we have on our school iPads while I explore other apps and begin writing grants to get them in the future. (100 ipads=$$ for each app purchase) so I'm trying to keep it simple. Below is a screen shot of the new page I added to my website. Visit it here. There are links leading to resources, videos, tutorials, and files that you can download from your iPad and get started playing right away. 
 
 
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I have so much to say about this digital graphic design lesson based on the painting Christina's World created on the ipads that I wrote it up as an article for School Arts magazine. Hopefully I will be able to share every last detail with you if it is accepted for publication.

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Meanwhile, I wanted to share some resources that I made to accompany the lesson so you can explore these ideas now while you might have time. How to use instant alpha on a mac to erase the background is  in the beginning of this video. How to use the magic wand tool from photoshop to do the same thing is in this video.

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I erased Christina out of Andrew Wyeth's original piece, Christina's World. View the video below to learn how to do it in both Keynote and Photoshop Elements. The end of the video shows a student creating the artwork on the ipad using the Brushes App.
The key to making this project work with students is the Dropbox app for sharing and accessing images for the ipad.
View our online art gallery of completed student work for this project. Many students wrote a bit in their artist statements explaining the new story they intended to tell.

 
 
My students put together a video called,  "Push Up Your Sleeves" this year. This video was intended to be played before each of our new fugleflicks. But, when I saw how cute the final product turned out,  I thought the students needed to be recognized for their tiny video before I buried it in a video logo segment. So, Push Up Your Sleeves was entered into our district film festival and a local film festival where the students were commended for their creativity.

Yesterday I finally took the tie to work on the video logo. Here is how I made it:

The logo itself is designed in Comic Life iPad App (for the text) and Brushes App (for the image). Then I animated in Keynote (desktop version) and converted to quicktime. 

I composed the first segment of music on a web based garageband-like site called soundation.com. They let me download it as a .wav file.

Then I put all the video and audio together in imovie and uploaded it to vimeo.
 
 
I was asked today about some movie making tricks. The best way to answer is to show in video. I thought I'd post these so that if anyone else wants to see these they can too. (These are .swf files so if you're looking from a mobile apple device, sorry-won't work)

1. How to make the black outlines in Careers in Art Fugleflick video:
http://screencast.com/t/7SvNqcJUK8r
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2. How to get started using green screen effects: http://www.screencast.com/t/baYVTXwrZ
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