Category: Game

Using ThingLink for Idioms

2/7/2016

I'm always looking for ways to showcase student work. Sometimes it's difficult if what we make is in a dynamic media like a video, animation, or gif. It's even more tricky if the art really needs to interacted with for best results. This made me think about illustrating idioms. When you create one of these drawings it naturally turns into a guessing game. You want people to be able to figure out your idiom as they study your artwork. I've been playing with Thinglink as a way to create a guessing game with any kind of art. Happily I learned they support gif animations. So, this app/website would happily showcase this idea. See if you can guess any of my animated or drawn examples. Mouse over the red dot to see the answers. Click here to explore my other Thinglink images.

Here is a Fugleflick collaborative idiom movie made during summer school. Their illustrations are AMAZING. They use voice over to reveal the meaning of their work.

Idioms Illustrated from Tricia Fuglestad on Vimeo.

I'm not sure if my coffee images are technically idioms. They may be more of a literal translation of speech.

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Art Institute of Chicago Field Trip 2014

4/7/2014

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Today I took the 4th graders to the Art Institute of Chicago to see their permanent collection face to face. Students have been spending the past few weeks playing art games to become familiar with the art they would see on this trip. They played:
Art Institute Bingo
Spect-art-acles
Connect-a-Concept
I tweeted our trip using the hashtag #drydenartic and archived the images and audioboos below.
The photos from the trip are in a slideshow too.
Want to explore the museum with our scavenger hunt sheet? Click here to download it.

We received an email from our head docent on our trip. See her lovely feedback below:

All of the docents who led your students on tour commented on how much they enjoyed interacting with your students. Your students were described as bright, enthusiastic, and very well prepared to discuss works of art. We thank you for inspiring your students to appreciate art. Working with students like yours is why we love the job we do at The Art Institute of Chicago.

~Camille, Docent at the Art Institute of Chicago

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SPECT-ART-ACLES look-think-question

3/20/2014

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I will be taking my fourth graders on a field trip to the Art Institute of Chicago in early April. To make the trip more meaningful and engaging, I play three different games to help them become more familiar with the art collection.
One of the games is called SPECT-ART-ACLES. It was inspired by a NAEA presentation I saw a number of years ago about playing games in the art room. My student teacher, Matthew Etherington, helped me put this idea together and customize it for our trip to the Art Institute by making it all about the permanent collection at their museum.

We started by purchasing plastic glasses and hot gluing a popsicle stick to the top with a piece of velcro. I already had a collection of postcards of art from the Art Institute and used those as our game pieces by adding velcro to the back. These could be designed and printed out on card stock and laminated so they last from year to year.

The game board lists each possible choice

of art in the game with Title and Artist

In this introduction video you can play against Matthew and learn how the game works.

This Fugleflick video will help students brush up on their art vocabulary so they can ask good questions like, Am I a landscape? Sculpture? Still Life? Figure drawing? Abstract?

I AM ART from Tricia Fuglestad on Vimeo.

For the last bit of class we have the ULTIMATE CHALLENGE ROUND. We spin the digital wheel to see which student from each table will come up and play the game before the whole class. It's an elimination game that reveals our guessing strategies to all.

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Connect-a-Concept

4/2/2013

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I'm taking my fourth graders on a field trip to the Art Institute of Chicago tomorrow and playing art games with them to prepare. Today we will try a new game I designed modeled after a dinner party theater game called, Connect-a-Concept.
See my post on theater games in art class here.
See a post about the Spect-art-acles game or download our bingo game.
Below is a video describing how we play:

Connect-a-concept Game from Tricia Fuglestad on Vimeo.

Below you can hear Grace share a thought about the game.

listen to ‘Connect a concept’ on Audioboo

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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.

@tiedemania @fuglefun @greeneyegal The real wheels: spinningdesigns.com/standard.html
— Holly Bess (@ArtLadyHBK) November 29, 2012

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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Offline Draw Something

5/16/2012

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I really love the iPhone/iPad game, Draw Something for how it trains the players to communicate words visually. This social media enhanced one-to-one game doesn't work very well in my classroom yet as it is designed. So, I made an offline version to play on the interactive board featuring a collection of my saved drawings from games I was playing over the past month. I had enough that each of my students can take one turn trying to guess the word and spell it correctly. This worked great with my first graders who are just learning to read, write, and grow their vocabulary.

You can download my game in PDF form here.
The next round for this game would be to let the students do the drawing after picking a random word from a hat. This will make a perfect end-of-the-year-we-can't-make-a-mess-in-my-clean-art-room-but-still-learn-and-have-fun Game.

By the way, did you notice that I'm sharing a file from my dropbox? Want to learn how to do this too. Watch my screencast video here.

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Pin the Feature on the Face

2/1/2012

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My Kindergarteners are getting ready to create their self-portraits. One of the hardest things about this process is finding the right place to put the features of the face. We played my homemade game, Pin the Feature on the Face to challenge them in a completely new way to find the right place for the features of the face:)

Take a look below at how the self-portraits turned out last year (or view the gallery on artsonia)

I packaged up this lesson as a printable poster and/or letter size images that you can download and print out for you and your students to use. This is a great way to introduce the features of the face or Picasso's cubistic portraits.

This lesson is available here.

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