Tricia Fuglestad's Blog

Help us "INSPIRE" this week

1/31/2014

Our classrooms have up to 24 students. We currently have 16 these iPads for student use. 3 more are on order from our ABC/25 grant. Total is 20 (19 for students 1 for instruction).

INSPIRE is the code you add when you donate to our latest Donor's Choose project to
DOUBLE YOUR IMPACT!
DONATE NOW
The code only lasts for one week, so you have until
FEB. 6th to help maximize your gift.
We are working on gaining a 1:1 iPad Art room.
This project will bring us one iPad closer to that goal.
We are getting SO close too!
Take a look at our growing collection below.

Help us with the code "INSPIRE" so
my students can become inspired.

Here is a visual for how many iPads we have for student use in the art room. We are SO close to being able to do all class projects. Please help us!

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William Wegman Dog Photo Collage

1/28/2014

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My fifth graders are working on creating a William Wegman Styled photo collage from their water colored dog paintings and a photo they pose for with props and costumes. These images will be combined using two apps on the iPad. We will use the Superimpose app to create transparent backgrounds on both the child's pose and dog portrait painting. They will then use Sketchbook Express to layer the dog head, body, background, and shadow. There are a few techniques I came up with that make this pretty easy. Watch my tutorial below to learn my tricks.

William Wegman-ish Dog Portrait made on the iPad from Tricia Fuglestad on Vimeo.

Other Resources:

Click to view this Wegman Dog Video

Click to view more on Pinterest

UPDATE:
Our finished collages turned out AMAZING!
I'm so excited and inspired by what my 5th graders are able to accomplish on iPads.

--->Take a moment to view the post here.
--->Or go straight to their online gallery here.

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Expanding your Teacher Reach

1/23/2014

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Listen to the podcast here

This week on the aRTs Roundtable we discuss how to expand your teacher reach outside the classroom. It starts with our students and their work. The sharing and communicating with other educators on a personal level, leads to many more opportunities for you and your students.

Show Host: Carol Broos
Show Contributors: Tricia Fuglestad, Jennifer Kolze and Brenda Muench Leave us some feedback!

Contact us with any questions or comments- [email protected] or leave us a comment here.

I did a presentation about how expanding my teacher reach has impacted my students. This was made for the K12Online conference in 2012. You can view it here:

Technology Rich and Connected Art Room from Tricia Fuglestad on Vimeo.

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Dryden Art News, Jan. 21st

1/21/2014

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We have some amazing news to share so please take a moment to look through our Dryden Art Room news!

Download our Lima Bean Monster eBook (1st grade art, video, & voice)
Warmest Way to Build a Snowman
1st Grade Draws: APEX HS Animates (art and animation collaboration)
I'm in an Award Winning PLN!
Received Two ABC/25 Grants
One and a Half iPads (this post includes a Thinglink quiz)
Making Memes
Answers for Sporadic Squiggles
Be Like Bacon, The Meat that Exceeds (all students)
DeskConnect for iPad Management
Allow us to Illustrate is a Finalist (Message judges about your favorite video)
ArtEd iPad Workshop, Villa Park
Our White House Film Festival Entry
Dryden Artist chosen for Illinois' Youth Art Month Poster

Read the Artsonia Newsletter online here.

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Dryden Artist chosen for Illinois' Youth Art Month Poster!

1/21/2014

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Congratulations to Riley who created this percolated still life drawing at the end of her Kindergarten year. Her piece was one of only 6 images (view the six Dryden Finalists here) I was allowed to submit for judging in the 2014 Illinois Art Education Association Youth Art Month Poster Contest. Her percolated still life was one of 14 selected from art images submitted by art teachers from across the state for this prestigious honor.
Riley's still life will be part of poster design that will be sent to every school building and political leader at the capital as part of the observance of youth art month in March.
This is the 4th time a Dryden artist has been chosen for the IAEA YAM Poster design.
View Oscar's in 2010
View Kaitlyn's in 2011
View Robert's and Ben's in 2013

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Our White House Film Festival Entry

1/19/2014

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We are so excited to announce that our fifth grade Dryden artists are entering the
White House Film Festival! We have been working on this video since early December when we first learned of this opportunity. The video shows how our fifth graders have been using technology for art production and art instruction in our classroom from kindergarten through present. We were able to base the video on the presentation that a group of them gave while in 4th grade to pre-service art teachers in Montreal, Canada via Skype. View that event here. We had 29 students volunteer to work on this video during their lunch recesses. They were each assigned a segment with a rhyming verse to memorize. The segments were customized to each actor as much as possible showing video or stills of them or their artwork. Every segment was exported as a video clip and brought into the iPad to use as the background image in the DoInk Green Screen app. They stood before our classroom green screen and recorded their portion while the app magically replaced the green with their custom backgrounds. We learned quickly not to wear green on recording day. We also tried to adhere to the guidelines of the film festival and not show any 3rd party images or logos. Wearing a smock was the logical solution to cover them up. We had the whole film finished a week before winter break. When we went to edit it we realized that the audio was very poor. Our iPad microphone wasn't able to capture audio well enough to use the clips. The audio was so low that there was absolutely nothing my software could do to fix it. I tried all the tricks I knew. So I bought a microphone adaptor for the iPad so we could use the lapel mic that the art room already owned and filmed it all over again. This was a lesson in trying our best, being persistent, and having a good attitude. Our fifth graders passed this test with flying colors. See our video below.

Technology in Dryden's Art Class from Tricia Fuglestad on Vimeo.

We used our newest form of movie-making to create this video. In the fall we were asked to helpBeta Test the new Green Screen app from DoInk. The app automatically creates a chroma key effect in the iPad. This app allowed us to show in the background of each segment the technology tools or techniques the students were describing. We uploaded all our background segments to the dropbox and pulled them into the camera roll as needed. Then imported them to the app. It's an extremely easy app to use and creates such immediately magical results. The only issue was our audio. Below you can compare the audio without the external microphone and with the use of the external microphone. I could raise the volume of the later without static or distortion.

Original recording without external mic.

Second recording with external mic.

@fuglefun brilliant use of green screen, editing and design. Excellent audio as well. http://t.co/Q8JwfHwDP6
— Brad Wright (@Veescope) January 19, 2014

@fuglefun Truly inspiring work. Your students are AMAZING!!! Well done!
— Rushell Kwong (@Rush4theArts) January 19, 2014

@fuglefun @whitehouse @doinktweets @drydenschool Beautiful work & well-done! Please let your students know I love their video!
— Colleen Rose (@ColleenKR) January 19, 2014

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ArtEd iPad Workshop, Villa Park

1/18/2014

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I was honored with the opportunity to work with the art team in Villa Park, IL on Friday. We went through a dozen or so art education based projects on the iPads together. You can explore the lessons we explored on your own using this handout. Open it in iBooks and use the links to download templates or view blog posts with more information.

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Allow us to Illustrate is a Finalist

1/14/2014

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Great news about our Fugleflick, "Allow is to Illustrate"...

Allow us to Illustrate was chosen as a finalist in the collaboration category in the NextVista.org student video contest. Here is a link to the 5 movies in our category.

If you have an overall favorite from the above, click here to send an email to Next Vista letting them know which it is. They'll give a special award to filmmakers with the most messages.

Learn more about our fugleflick art + literacy video that was animated, drawn, and filmed with green screen effects using DoInk's Green Screen App on the iPad here:

http://drydenart.weebly.com/1/post/2013/11/allow-us-to-illustrate-the-fugleflick.html

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DeskConnect for iPad Management

1/12/2014

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I just downloaded DeskConnect for my laptop, iPad, and iPhone and began playing with it for helping my workflow. At First I thought this free app would be wonderful for my personal use of moving files to and from these devices.
But today, I learned about a couple more tricks that would make a huge difference for iPad management in the art room (or any classroom setting). I can send websites and image files out to all the devices with a simple keystroke. Take a look at the demonstration video below.
Thanks @musictechie for sharing this app with me!

Testing DeskConnect from Laptop to iPad from Tricia Fuglestad on Vimeo.

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Be Like Bacon, The Meat that Exceeds

1/12/2014

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Photo Credit: Dr. Craig Roland

All students need to meet my classroom expectations:
to LISTEN
be POLITE
show RESPECT
and CLEAN up

But I decided to start a new behavior program that recognizes students who are LIKE BACON,
THE MEAT THAT EXCEEDS

BACON BEHAVIOR
exceeds the four classroom expectations.
These may include:
Thoughtfulness
Kindness
Helpfulness
Cooperativeness

If students are caught demonstrating
BACON BEHAVIOR
during art class they will receive a raffle ticket. Every grade level is qualified and students can enter multiple times.
One winner will be chosen at the end of the school year to have their very own plush toy BACON (that talks too).