I grabbed my video camera to show you this AMAZING occurrence in the art room. When students learned how to rotoscope on the ipad this is what it looked (and sounded) like.
Years ago we tried a rotoscope project with a very motivated small group of third graders. They created an animation, divided it up into still frames, drew a contour line drawings over each frame, and deleted the photos. We used FLASH software and the interactive board to draw. The process took 3 months of 15 minute recesses. But the results are amazing!! It's hard to believe that 8 / 9 year olds made the rotoscoped video below:
UPDATE!!! 
Today a bunch of images were finished and turned in to me via email. I started sequencing them and saw the animation forming. Here is our sneak peak of what's to come! Isn't this going to be cool? If it isn's animating for you below, than use this link to view it online
at gifninja.com
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Sotheby's will offer the only privately owned version of Edvard Munch's haunting work "The Scream" at an auction in New York on May 2 where it expects to fetch over $80 million, the highest pre-sale value the auctioneer has ever put on a work of art. Read the story here.
One of our Dryden 4th graders will have his version of the SCREAM shown on a 30ft LED Big Screen in NYC in early March.  I wonder if that will help up the final sales price of Munch's. Who knows, but it does give us a lot to scream about! Learn more about his screen debut here.  
All of Dryden's 4th graders made both digital versions (see this gallery on Artsonia) of the Scream on iPads and a Painted version with oil pastels, tempra, and a photo collage (see this gallery on Artsonia). View our slideshow below set to original spooky music.  
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500 pieces of student art from around the country will be showcased in NYC on a 30 foot LED screen in the heart of the downtown area. This presentation was made possible by Artsonia working with the BigScreenPlaza.org project. They will be screening the artwork while 6000 art educators meet for their annual professional development conference blocks away. I'm very excited for our 4th grade Dryden Student Eli who will make his NYC debut on the Big Screen while I'll be there to see it! (His piece is image #366 which means it will show around 7pm.)
Here is what it might look like below during the show on 
Friday, March 2nd 5-8pm
Saturday, March 3rd 5-8pm
Below is my mock up of how it might appear on the 30 foot screen. They will include his artist statement along with the image as seen below.
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My fifth graders came to art for their first day of Rotoscoping on their iPads. They plan to turn their little movie into an animation created by line drawings over each of the 300 or so still frames of this video (see at bottom of this post). As I watched them draw using our new styluses on the class set of iPads I captured an MC Escher moment where a hand draws a hand, but this time digitally. We hope that all 100 5th graders will each create three drawings that will all be combined into one digital animation. If it works out, we hope to enter it in Rotoball 2012.
Here is the animation video that they are planning to rotoscope. They designed it to loop over and over again so the 15 second animation could run endlessly.
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Created on the iPad by first graders. Students had to go through a series of steps to locate the heart template, download it to the iPad from my website, import it as a layer into the brushes app, select the layer beneath to paint on with a resized brush, and their own color choice. Students had to learn the digital tools for trouble shooting (undo, eraser, eye dropper, and some discovered a way to use the paint bucket to quickly fill). Students were to paint the negative space of one side and the positive space of the other, create a digital tint of their color by sliding the selector closer to white, and paint the remaining spaces. Then, they emailed their artwork to me when it was complete. As a special Valentine's gift, I ran their digital artwork through the Wordfoto app which magically transformed their work into a Valentine.
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Third graders were challenged to create a four letter wish for the world in the style of Robert Indiana's LOVE image. Then, they composed a short statement explaining their choice. The art and the text were combined using an iPhone/iPad app called Wordfoto. This app puts the words into the image in an artistic way. Take a close look at these wishes below and you can not only see their four letter wish, but also read within it their reasons why they chose this word and it's meaning to them. Please compliment these artists on our online gallery on Artsonia. Find their work:
Look at the original artwork gallery here. 
Look at the Wordfoto gallery here.
Interested in the handout I used to generate ideas and artist statements? Click here.
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AHSD25 hosted a District Staff Variety Show to raise money for ABC/25 Foundation. Some of my talented colleagues joined me in a live performance of the original song, I AM ART as the Fuglefollies Interpretive Dance troupe. You'll hear us sing and watch us "dance" to this song about art. Featuring, Len Deptula, Joe Robinson, Danielle Porte, Kathy Riesing, and myself. (Normally, we do have faces...)
This song was originally written for the award winning I AM ART video created by 5th graders at Dryden in 2010-2011. Watch this video here: vimeo.com/16278783

Quiz Question: What 5 art pieces do we reference with our poses at the end of each chorus?
(Please respond in the comments).
Here is a cast photo from behind stage. (Now you can see that we have faces.)
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My very lucky 2nd grade art students had a visit today (on Bubble Gum Day) from the author of Lester Fizz, Bubble Gum Artist, Ruth Spiro. She talked about the process of writing a book, working with an illustrator, and answered all our questions about Lester Fizz.
Many students ordered the book signed by the author herself! We all received bubble gum scented bookmarks and lots of inspiration! Thank you Mrs. Spiro for your visit!
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Last year a group of talented 5th graders made a super cute music video called I AM ART.
This film was recognized with a first place shortie award in Washington D.C. 
When I heard about the District Staff V-Show to raise money for our ABC/25 foundation, I suggested to Dryden teachers that we do our own audio recording and live performance of this song. It ended up being something like a Saturday Night Live musical skit. Come and see for yourself:) Learn more about attending the V-Show here.
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First graders learned about color, line, and shape pattern while making these symmetrical mittens. Some even learned how to tie a bow for the first time! They watched our fun Fugleflick about pattern called REPEAT (and even sang along at our Repeat Karaoke Party.)
Take a look at their artwork below or view it on our Artsonia gallery here.
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