Our EduWin on EduWin Weekly!

04/24/2013

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Our live tweets using Audioboo during our field trip to the Art Institute of Chicago became a topic of conversation on the Eduwin Weekly podcast this week.

We are so honored that the show host, Jim Gubbins and contributor Michelle Russell decided to include us.
Listen to the podcast here.

View the blog post about our trip.
View my Audioboo Musical Tutorial.

This is another example of how a personal learning network improves student learning!
Share your #eduwins on twitter or directly into this website: http://www.whatisyoureduwin.com
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Back from NAEA Conference in Texas

03/11/2013

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I just returned from a wonderfully energizing conference experience with thousands of art educators from around the country meeting for 4 days in Fort Worth, Texas. I loved the time I had with my Personal Learning Network (PLN) face to face. These are the people I learn from all year-round online through our social networks. All SIX  of my presentations were with people I connect with online, three of which I had never met in person before! We decided ahead of time to buy this shirt from Inkpixie using our Twitter Handle and wear them as we gathered on Saturday for coffee. We posed together for this picture. (Our hands look funny because we are trying to imitate this picture that Stacy Lord made when she was being silly on a snow day.) 

Six Presentations:

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Technology Tools in Elementary Art
Theresa McGee, an elementary art teacher in Hinsdale, IL, and I traveled together to Texas. We rushed over to the conference as soon as we arrived 15 minutes before our first presentation where we took turns with two other art teachers including Jessica Balsley demonstrating how we use technology. I quickly demonstrated this iPad art lesson called, It's Not Christina's World Anymore, based on the painting, Christina's World. See the finished student art here.
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Connected Art Educators: PLNs
Dr. Craig Roland, Prof. of Art Ed at Uof Fl, Dr. Elizabeth Delacruz (my former professor from U of I), Ian Sands, H.S. art teacher from Apex, NC, and I each took turns sharing how our online personal learning network has made a difference for our professional growth and has benefitted our students. I talked about three stories: Careers in Art, Doink Alien Animations, and IPEVO. It's too much to explain here, but trust me, they're great stories!
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Western Region/Southeastern Region Elementary Art Teacher Showcase
This presentation was part of winning the Western Region Elementary Art Teacher of the Year Award. I tried to sum up everything we do in 20 minutes. I used this video to preface the presentation and followed with a focus on how we use technology in our art room. I explain it better in this online presentation. The other presenter was Jennifer Johnson Keith of Louisiana who shared about her wonderful program in 20 minutes as well. It is hard to condense a career full of stories into 20 mins.
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Artsonia-Online Digital Art Gallery
This is the 5th year I've been able to present on using Artsonia as a tool to create a digital portfolio with my students. Our presentation has grown and evolved over the years as the company has improved and changed to make their service better and better for art teachers and their students. The CEO and President of the company joined Susan, Theresa, and I to help answer questions from the attendees and hear their concerns and questions about the process of getting started. Learn more here.
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iPads in Art (Part Two)
This session was a continuation of the session that Suzanne Tiedemann and I (Theresa Gillespie was with us in spirit) did last year to a standing room only group. We thought that since the room was so small we should offer it again so those who really wanted to learn about creating art on iPads can get a chance. Luckily they gave us a larger room where all 150 or so attendees could each find a seat. This year Theresa Gillespie joined me (Suzanne was with us in spirit) as we presented about the top three projects we successfully accomplished with our students. You can learn more from my page, Theresa's page, and this page made jointly by Suzanne and me.
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Lights, Camera, Learning! 
with Fugleflicks and Campbellartsoup
I was so excited to share about making movies to teach art concepts with Janine Campbell. We had been learning from each other for years online and finally met as we shared our different approaches to student created art related movie making. Learn more about Janine's program here. View our Fugleflicks index here.

Receiving my Award

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On March 7th I received the Western Region Elementary Art Teacher of the Year 2013 Award from the National Art Education Association. My nominator was Samantha Melvin of Texas who was the National Elementary Art Teacher of the Year in 2012. It is such an honor to be recognized at this level for  doing the job that I love. Thank you PLN for making me a better teacher!
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Read the Chicago Tribune article written about my award at this link.

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Read this story about the THREE Illinois Art Educators recognized at the National Art Education Conference.
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MY take on this trip
When I saw this photo taken by Jennifer at the showcase presentation that we shared, I had a WOW moment as I looked at a relaxed and confident person happily talking to a large crowd of people at a national conference. You may not know my journey, but here is a hint: I was so painfully shy growing up and into my adult years that I had to come home from college after two weeks because I was too afraid to go into the cafeteria for my meals.
Thank you to all the people over the years who gently held my hand and helped me grow.
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Sharing, learning, and connecting at ICE

02/28/2013

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I wanted to take a moment to post some of the great things I've learned as I network and share at the Illinois Computer Educators Conference in St. Charles, IL. One of my favorite things about going to conferences is seeing the people I've been learning from online through my PLN on twitter Face to Face!
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Today I had the honor of conducting my first workshop at an ICE conference. I had a group of 15 teachers & technology integrationists learning how to Create on iPads. We used my website to guide us through a few lessons designed to help attendees become familiar with techniques, project ideas, and apps. We had fun mirroring our projects up on the screen using airplay and the Airserver app.
Thanks to the folks at Percolator app and Doink app for donating app codes to my workshop attendees. They were a BIG hit!
These are examples of our collaborative drawings. We used a template from my website as a guide to draw what the surrealist artists would call, an Exquisite Corpse. We drew a portion & passed the iPad to the person on the right until it was complete all while we explored the tools and techniques of SketchbookX.
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Exquisite Corpse Drawing from Today
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On Friday, I presented a session called, Creative Digital Art Projects that put STEAM into STEM where I shared a whole bunch of ideas, student projects, videos, etc. from my art program. I had a nice size audience, a borrowed speaker system from Carol Broos (thank you) because the room was too large for my little speaker, and a VIP attendee named Wesley Fryer. He blogged his notes from my presentation on his Speed of Creativity site here. He put out the tweet below about my presentation.
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Even more fun with George Washington

01/30/2013

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My second graders are working on their George Washington Portraits (view their sketches here) . Meanwhile, I'm collecting some fun ways to play with their final images. We will look at the dollar bill with the IPEVO microscope adaptor and take a close look at the Etching created by Gilbert Stuart who also inspired our portrait paintings. (Did you make your wish for an IPEVO yet? Click here.) Here is what I've found from my PLN of art teachers so far.
•We might put it on a dollar bill with festisite.com (via @theresamcgee)
•We might try making it look like an etching with the Etchings App (via @greeneyegal)
•We might try making it look like a postage stamp with the Face on Stamp Booth app (via @artladyHBK)
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IPEVO USB document camera with adaptor
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Made with Festisite.com/money
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Made with Etchings App
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Made with Face on Stamp Booth App
See my other posts about exploring George Washington with technology here.
View our Facing the Facts about George student video here or below.
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Interactive Boards, Games, and iPevo

11/29/2012

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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.
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Expand your PLN with the K12OnlineConference

10/08/2012

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This year I submitted a proposal to present at the K12onlineconference.org I'm not the only one from my PLN participating so make sure you mark your calendars:
(My presentation teaser is below or at this link)
View the list of Presenters here.
Week of Oct 22 – 25: Getting Started and Visioning New Curriculum
Week of Oct 29 – Nov. 2: Kicking It Up a Notch and Student Voices
Here is a list of my PLN members presenting

GETTING STARTED:
Karyn Keenan on Twitter @Karenteaches
Chicago, Illinois, USA
A Digital Journey with Primary Students and No Budget!

VISIONING NEW CURRICULUM:
Jon Bergmann on Twitter @jonbergmann
Lake Forest, Illinois, USA
Implementing the Flipped Classroom

Ian Sands on Twitter @iansands
Apex, North Carolina, USA
How Technology Helped Me Paint With Mud

KICKING IT UP A NOTCH:
Janine Campbell on Twitter @campbellartsoup
Dorr, Michigan, USA
Remixing What Teaching Looks Like Thorugh Blended Learning

Tricia Fuglestad on Twitter @fuglefun
Arlington Heights, Illinois, USA
Teaching Art in a Technology Rich and Connected Classroom

STUDENT VOICES:
Ben Rimes on Twitter @techsavvyed
St. Joseph, Michigan, USA
Video Story Problems

Brad Wilson on Twitter @deambition
Redford, Michigan, USA
Student News Teams: Telling the Story
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It's like one Big Virtual Group Hug!

04/19/2012

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Thank you so much to all those who chimed in when Suzanne Tiedemann, art teacher in New Jersey, asked for adjectives to send to the Golden Apple Foundation on my behalf as they make their decisions about this coveted award via this tweet:
"Golden Apple asked 4 adjectives 2 describe @fuglefun! Innovative Transformative Global Want 2 offer up a few #artsed PLN" 
Below (or here) is the response she collected (all on the same day). Thank you so much everyone for your kindness and support! It's like one big virtual group hug!
No matter the outcome, I'm a winner to have such great friends!
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