Making an Interactive Game in Mimio

08/30/2012

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We LOVE our interactive board in the art room. It gets used everyday in almost every class period in so many different ways. I started collecting ideas a while back for how we use our IWB and began a wiki to share some of our lessons. I love to use Mimio Studio software for building interactive games since they offer a free download of the software, a community site to share files, and PC and MAC users are all welcome. I use mimio on a polyvision board. It doesn't matter what the IWB brand is since the software running on my computer creates the interactivity experience.
As I was preparing to teach this collage lesson to my 4th graders based on Pablo Picasso's Old Guitarist, I thought that a scramble/reassemble activity would be a fun way to encourage students to study the image. This could be done a number of ways, but I thought I'd try to make it digitally in Mimio Studio. 
                 -->This file can be downloaded here<--
In the tutorial below you can see how to play the puzzle with varying levels of difficulty and how to make one yourself using keynote and preview (on a Mac) along with Mimio Studio. All this has been added to my Art is Interactive Wiki here.
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Fugleflicks Featured on Wikispaces Blog

03/19/2012

 
Fugleflicks are Student-Created Art-Related Videos.
The wiki that houses our index, tutorials, and so much more was featured today in the Wikispaces Blog.
Our Fugleflicks range from Classroom management topics to the elements of art.
Coincidentally, I ran across this Blog Post about Fugleflicks from Paul Hamilton (thx) where he shares his feelings about our videos and their potential impact in the classroom. 
Let's celebrate these posts by sharing a few of our favorite Fugleflicks:

Swept Away: (classroom management) The tragic story of what happens when art supplies are left on the floor at the end of the school day told by the pencil, paper, and eraser left behind.
This video was created by a class of 4th graders in 2008. It screened in the Shortie Awards, Washington D.C. as a finalist for live-action video.
Deep Space: (art concepts-overlapping, foreground, middleground, background, relative size and placement on a page to create the illusion of deep space)
That's a lot to cover, but these three little third graders sing their hearts out to deliver the message clearly  in this short video.
White Spot Inspector: (craftsmanship) Teaching students to go back over their mistakes and turn their "rough draft" into a finished piece of art is a lot easier when I can just show them this entertaining little video..
 
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