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In this podcast I shared my thoughts on how small class sizes make a HUGE difference in art education as I reflected on the successes of my 6 student class last week.
I also mentioned my Edbacker project, my Donor's Choose project, and the student-created, art-related Fugleflicks that have been finalists (and winners) via Nextvista.

Learning Digitally and Physically

05/30/2013

Second graders had a chance to explore the the beautiful abstract cats of artist, Laurel Birch both physically and digitally.

They drew a cat in her style over two class periods as we talked about her artistic choices that made her work abstract.
View all sketches here.

Then I took digital images of these sketches and put them both on Artsonia where students were able to save them into their iPads. They added a layer over their sketch to retrace, paint, and decorate a digital abstract painting in the style of Laurel Birch using Sketchbook express. View all digital painting here.

One class even had enough time to revisit their original sketches to paint them physically!
View the these paintings here.

Mick's Hand Drawn Sketch

Mick's Digital Painting

Mick's Physical Painting

Jill's Hand Drawn Sketch

Jill's Digital Painting

Jill's Physical Painting

Did digital abstract cats artsonia.com/museum/gallery… Now finishing up R physical ones @drydenschool #artsed twitter.com/fuglefun/statu…
— Tricia Fuglestad (@fuglefun) May 29, 2013

Fugleflick wins Second Place in National Contest

05/23/2013

The Internet Was Created for Good

Congratulations to our 15 Fifth Grade Fugleflick Filmmakers:
Kelly, Jillian, Sophia, Julia, Ciara, Cindy, Giuliana, Marion, Lily, Rachel, Kylie, Emma, Olga, Brianna, and Jenny

View our movie on the contest site or here on vimeo or embedded below.
Read the press release.
See our post about making this movie with photos and trivia here.

The Internet Was Created for Good from Tricia Fuglestad on Vimeo.

Hall of Fame Winners 2013

05/23/2013

Congratulations to our 2013 Hall of Fame Raffle Winners, Filip (K), Jack (4th), and Connor (1st). They each won a custom T-shirt featuring their favorite piece of art from their art portfolio on Artsonia. Learn more about our Hall of Fame Raffle here.

Your participation in Artsonia makes our online art gallery a fun place for our students to share their artwork, write artist statements, practice digital citizenship by writing kind comments to others, and view evidence of growth and learning over time.
Thank you for celebrating your child's artistic development and supporting art education!
View the gallery now.

The Art is Walking Around

05/21/2013

Matt wears his creature on the chair.

I love when the art we make in class ends up walking around the building! Part of what makes having our online digital art gallery on Artsonia so fun is the gift shop where you can purchase customized items that feature your favorite artists' work. Artsonia donates 20% back to the art program for every purchase made.

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I love to photograph students wearing their art. Sometimes I put the photos in the display case at the end of the school year. Please stop in the art room if you happen to be walking around wearing your art!

Alec wears his Wild Thing

Owen wears his Wild Thing

Dryden Art News May 18th

05/18/2013

Keeping an eye on my students

Dryden Art News, May 18, 2013
from Mrs. Tricia Fuglestad

Thank you so much for taking a moment to learn about the great things happening in our art program:
View online here.

iPad Painting Party (Dryden Raffle Winners)
In the Guinness Book of World Records? (Environmental Art)
Clay Mask Monsters (iPads, Green Screen, and Silliness)
Kindergarten Song and Wear-a-bows (Photos, recording, & video from K-Tea)
Origami Day with Mrs. Sessler (4th grade)
Digital Citizenship via Artsonia (Learning to be Kind Online)
Burning Digital Porfolios (5th grade culminating art education event)
EdBacker :: LEGO Wall for Dryden Art Program (More Legos are coming!)
Hall of Fame Raffle - Dryden Art (Congrats Filip Kdg, Connor T.1st, & Jack P. 4th)
Digital Cats in the Style of Laurel Birch (2nd grade iPad project)
Percolated Landscapes (First grade added an FX to their Landscapes)
Artist Statements for 5th grade Flying Animation (Read their stories about flying)

Burning Digital Porfolios

05/16/2013

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This week our fifth graders had a culminating event in their elementary art education. I have been saving and storing files of art, photos and videos for each of our students since the moment they began attending Dryden School. Today we burned them all onto keepsake discs

Digital Portfolio Day from Tricia Fuglestad on Vimeo.

Our portfolios are full of memories from art making, movie-making, and other related experiences. Make sure you look at your students' portfolio and sign the feedback form. This form is their ticket to a raffle for art goodies. Due May 23rd.

First day of school

Kindergarten Tea

Art Olympics 3rd grade

Painting 4th grade

This one minute Fugleflick is our commercial for Digital Portfolios. Watch this to learn a little more about why we think they are so valuable to our students.

Digital Portfolio from Tricia Fuglestad on Vimeo.

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Digital Citizenship via Artsonia

05/16/2013

This week we spent some time focusing on Digital Citizenship in the art room using our online digital art gallery. Students learned to write kind and encouraging comments to fellow Dryden Artists. (See our internet safety fugleflick.)
We tried to find students who didn't have many comments on their artwork yet so they could experience the fun of participating onArtsonia.
Participation is really the key to making our Artsonia experience fun. When a student has fan club members they get an email for each newly published piece of artwork. The hope is that they will comment and encourage the young artists. These comments are then approved by the parents who then share them with the child. When every piece of this network participates, the young artists are encouraged and motivated to do their best!

We visually filled a bucket as we metaphorically filled buckets with our encouraging and kind comments online.
Every time a student wrote a comment they put a letter in the bucket to symbolize how they are filling up the spirits of the people they write to. This metaphor is based on a book called: Have you Filled a Bucket Today?
The third graders not only filled this bucket but I had to pull out a large vase, and create an over flow area! We counted out the pieces at the end of class and applauded their efforts to share kind words with others.We hope that the parents take a moment to approve and share these comments with their young artists. Below are some approved comments just posted this morning.

Don't know how to check comments? watch this video
Ready to login to your child's account? Click here.
Need help with your login or security key? tfuglestad@sd25.org

Below is our Fugleflick video about our Online Art Gallery on Artsonia. Students love it!

Our Online Art Gallery from Tricia Fuglestad on Vimeo.

Origami Day with Mrs. Sessler

05/15/2013

We were so fortunate to have Mrs. Sessler teach an origami lesson to each of the fourth grade classes. She shared about her Japanese heritage, showed us her mother's artistry, told the story of Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes, and lead all the students through the steps to make an origami paper crane. This was such a meaningful experience for all our students. Thank you so much for sharing your talents and culture, Mrs. Sessler!

Learn more about Sadako's story with this sweet child made stop motion animation.
View all of our paper cranes in our online art gallery on Artsonia.
Watch the animato video of our time with Mrs. Sessler below or at this link.
When Japan suffered from an earthquake an tsunami in 2011, Dryden Students joined Students Rebuild to show we cared with paper cranes.
Learn about this here.

The fourth graders signed a big thank you origami crane for Mrs. Sessler.