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ICE Conference 2018

2/28/2018

My Notes

Here is my animated sketchnote from #ice18 conference day. I don't think it communicates very well to others what I was learning, but it helps me remember what I felt was important from each session I attended.

The keynote panel discussion on equality made me think about students who go home without access to tech or wifi. Equality isn't always equal. Some people need more to get up to speed than others.
I went to a session on innovation from Barrington School District 220 and learned about their One to World program and their entrepreneurial business program.
I attended Ken Shelton's digital literacy program. I took note of movies having establishing shots & foreshadowing. He talked about using images to practice decoding and looking for clues as to the what, where, and how to spur creative writing.
I attended Rushton Hurley's session on great staff meetings. He talked about school leaders using staff meetings as a time to spread encouragement, celebrate accomplishments, and look for inspiration. Other stuff can be sent via email. One story referred to a staff that loved their meetings because their principal shared great videos in an interactive way. They called it the Bob Show and tried to get there early for a good seat.
I attended Steve Dembo's session on the YouTube generation. He played many examples of educational content videos that held to a structure or framework that helped students succeed. He shared that sometimes you should just let kids create and share...don't worry about edits. Leave the raw video so you can see the real stuff happening in your classroom. It was interesting and freeing to to hear Steve give me permission to let loose. It turned out that I went to two movie-making sessions. One share the Do's and the other shared the Don't Worrys. They made a great balance in my brain.

How I animated my Sketchnote

First I drew/doodled all day long using the Brushes App. I made two layers. One for my black lines/words and one underneath for coloring. Then saved to photos.
Next, I imported the photo into a layer in the Do Ink Drawing and Animation App. I drew animations over it using the flipbook technique. I drew, added a frame, drew some more. I made ten frames. I kept going back and adding more to my picture until I liked what the animation added to the drawing.
I merged the photo and animation in the composition mode of Do Ink. This is where I can adjust the timing to slow it down. Then save to gallery and share to video.
Bonus: I turned the video into an animated GIF using ezgif.com -works on an ipad.

Click to enlarge: Drawing mode

Click to enlarge: Composition mode

My presentation:

I presented a session called Animate your Lessons to Dynamically Demonstrate Learning. I shared dozens of ways teachers could use animation techniques with their students to integrate technology, art, and any subject to energize and engage their students. All of my lessons are found at one link that point back to my blog post with how to's, tutorials, resources, and student examples. Explore all 226+ here:

MY ART STEAM LESSONS

Mouse over the Thinglink images to find the direct links to resources for lessons.

Feedback

Cool stop motion ideas I want to try in the Learning Lab this spring! @D60HolmesLib @fuglefun #d60learns #ICE18 @DoInkTweets pic.twitter.com/jGruN15Xir
— Mrs. Blake (@D60HolmesTech) February 28, 2018

I wasn't sure as a coach (and terrible artist) if this was the right session for me...@fuglefun YOU ARE A GENIUS. I am blown away & INSPIRED. People...if you missed this session...get her resources! AMAZING.

Can I be in your class??? #ICE18
— Kelli (@kelliupgraded) February 28, 2018

We don’t want to teach kids to consume, we want them to be the creators. Love all of these ideas @fuglefun #ICE18 #innovate135 pic.twitter.com/w7XoWTtU9t
— Michelle Thorne (@iTeacher5th) February 28, 2018

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Featured in an Edsurge Article

2/26/2018

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I was interviewed for an article, Three Career Paths for Educational Innovators,
by Lisa Dawley, PhD for Edsurge.com. I think it's a wonderful honor to be considered an educational innovator but also a bit confusing for me. When you see who I am grouped with in the article, you'll find educators who have unique educational brands that shape their career paths.
I'm in the same job I've had since I graduated from college. I did all my growing, exploring, and "innovating" in my art room. My career path is the one I've worn through the tiles of my classroom floor.
I think what I offer teachers is the same thing I offer my students, tech-infused art lessons that make learning (Fugle) fun.

Click image to go to the Edsurge Article

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The more I shared via blogs, Twitter, or on Artsonia, the more I realized that other teachers wanted to use our movies, lessons, and resources for their classrooms. Knowing that their work could potentially be seen by others beyond our school community raised the bar for my students in motivation and execution. This has energized me personally and my students. It's not a one-way street.

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Abstract Picasso Styled Relief Sculptures

2/17/2018

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My second graders made a very realistic portrait of George Washington earlier this school year. As a follow up on that project, they explored abstract portraits inspired by Pablo Picasso. They built them from scraps of cardboard, foam core, flat wood pieces, and puzzle pieces. Download the lesson on tpt to lead student through all the steps.

View the gallery of finished art

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Try Your Best Growth Mindset Fugleflick

2/14/2018

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Fifth Grade Fugleflick Filmmakers spent 2 months creating a story to an original song to encourage everyone to shift their thinking from can't to can. Change that little voice in your head from fixed thinking to a growth mindset and TRY YOUR BEST!

Try Your Best (full version) from Tricia Fuglestad on Vimeo.

Special FXs Explained:

This movie is full of special effects made with drawn animation and/or green screen. Students used relative size to become the small voice in your head saying positive things to encourage you to TRY YOUR BEST. Here are some of the FX students used.

This little sprite popped onto the TV screen to encourage a student making art. He first had to be layered onto a screenshot of an iPad. Then the artist had to be filmed looking at a TV with the color green on it's screen. The two were layered in the GS app by Do Ink.

Some of the effects students used in this movie have been done before in previous Fugleflicks or projects. The thought bubble trick is explained in this post.

This effect is a straight forward use of relative size to make the sprites look very small. See this post about relative size for a tutorial and more ideas for using this trick.

I'm so excited to see the silhouette special FX in this Fugleflick. This idea has its own post explaining how we found this trick on accident and some of the amazing ideas you can use it for.

For one scene, a student is drawing and gets frustrated. She slams down her marker and gives up. As the art heads to the garbage can, the portrait on it speaks out to its artist begging for her to not give up. This special FX was create after a series of steps as show in the video. The animation was created through rotoscope. See this post to learn more.

This effect where a student spins into a painting with a quick size change was so amazing that it received it's own blog post here.

To make these little sprites fly, we had them pose in the last moment of their video. Then we used a still image of the last frame of the video and made them fly using the keynote app. To enhance the magic, we used a pixie title effect without words (just typed a space) to create a trail of sprite dust as they fly off the screen.

Want to learn the song?

#GSVFF Entry

Students wanted to tell the story of a fixed mindset changing to a growth mindset with the encouragement of positive little voices to combat the negative little voices you hear in your own head. Many students need this message so the filmmakers tried to get in their shoes (and heads) to help others Try their Best.

Since this video fits the theme "In Another's Shoes" we trimmed it down to 2 minutes so it could qualify for the first annual Global Student Voice Film Festival. To take a 3 min 40 sec song down to 2 minutes wasn't easy. The best way was to trim each chorus and remove the bridge. We were allowed another 1 minute of credits. I think it still tells the story just as well though some awesome scenes were removed in this version.

Try Your Best (2 min version) from Tricia Fuglestad on Vimeo.

Public Screenings of Try Your Best

Try Your Best has been selected for a public screening in the Screen Test Jr Film Festival in Schaumburg on Saturday, April 21st alongside films from Arizona, Texas, Sweden, and Canada. Those who could not attend will skype in to talk about their films.

Photo of screening from last year's Fugleflick, Don't Crush My Dreams

Thursday, May 3, 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm the Arlington Heights Memorial Library will kick off the School District 25 month-long art show with an arts reception. The evening will feature more than 300 works of art from students at District 25 schools, kindergarten through eighth grade, and live music from the South Middle School Jazz Ensemble. Refreshments will be served. There will be a continuous screening of TRY YOUR BEST in the technology room off the Marketplace area.

ScreenTest Jr.

Our Fugleflick Filmmakers' movie, Try Your Best was accepted into the 2018 Screen Test Film Fest Jr. Of the 5 movies screening, ours was the only one local. The other films were from Texas, Arizona, Canada, and Sweden. The hand drawn animation from an 8th grader in Arizona won best of show. See the list of films here.

Just returned from watching #TryYourBest on the big screen at @screen_test Where my #fugleflick filmmakers were celebrated for their amazing #growthmindset movie
Watch it here: https://t.co/zXcrf60bu1 #drydenrocks #d25itspersonal #STEAM #studentvoice #edtech @DoInkTweets pic.twitter.com/n46a6oznta
— Tricia Fuglestad ☕️ (@fuglefun) April 21, 2018

Loved how @screen_test had students discuss their movie-making process with the audience. Here are the #fugleflick filmmakers talking about loving #greenscreen FXs for storytelling: #greenscreenbookslowchat #STEAM #edtech #drydenrocks #tlap @doinktweets https://t.co/zXcrf60bu1 pic.twitter.com/2U2AcoBKw7
— Tricia Fuglestad ☕️ (@fuglefun) April 21, 2018

They also had a chance to explain the role that our storyboard played in making the #fugleflick #TryYourBest #drydenrocks #STEAM pic.twitter.com/DMn6EFOLEh
— Tricia Fuglestad ☕️ (@fuglefun) April 21, 2018

Love that they remembered to mention the audience they created the story for...All the students who need encouragement--> This is for you #TryYourBest https://t.co/zXcrf60bu1 pic.twitter.com/f9lrCiRc6X
— Tricia Fuglestad ☕️ (@fuglefun) April 21, 2018

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Hearts AGlow

2/14/2018

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Kindergarten had a chance to do their first animation in art class today by making a glowing heart Valentine. I have a post about this animation lesson from last year here.
We used a simple flipbook animation technique in the Do Ink animation and drawing app. Here is a super quick tutorial so you can see the process. The finished animation glows through the paper that we lay over the iPad screen. This animated glow technique was developed last year when the 4th graders made their aliens glow. View that post.

Hearts Aglow from Tricia Fuglestad on Vimeo.

Resources:

I put this image together and printed on per student

The HD Doc Camera by iPevo displays both the physical and digital aspects of this animation

Student results

Kindergarten had 30 minutes from start to finish. It's amazing that they could learn a new app, new technique, and animate for the first time in one class period.

This animation style wasn't completely new to my 5th graders since they were the ones who made the Animated Glow project last year. We took this idea to the next level and layered it over a photo of themselves, exported the movie and converted it to an animated GIF using ezgif.com

4th graders gave this technique a try. They were pretty comfortable with this lesson since they had already done a multi-frame rotoscope animation.

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1st Grade Clay Penguins

2/13/2018

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1st graders are learning about penguins as we sculpt one out of model magic clay. Students began with one lump of clay and followed all the steps until there was no clay left. There was lots of division in the directions (shhh-the truth is the lesson is full of math). Here is a quick rundown of the steps.

Click to download my Step by Step PPT from TpT

Click the image to view the brainpop video (login required)

Finished Clay Sculptures: view on Artsonia

Digital Extension: March of the Penguins

Students are going to use stop motion animation to make it look like their penguins can waddle around. (fingers crossed!)

1st grade multi-age classes

1-1 All Class Penguin Animation

1-2 All Class Penguin Animation

1-3 All Class Penguin Animation

The WRAP-UP movie:

This movie features all four groups of stop motion animations and some behind the scenes peeks at how these adorable penguins were created.

1st Grade Penguins from Tricia Fuglestad on Vimeo.

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Green Screen FX: Spin into Art

2/9/2018

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My Fugleflick filmmakers created this effect for their upcoming movie. It was intended to look like the artist was painting The Scream, by Edvard Munch, then becoming the subject of the painting with his own body. There were a bunch of steps to making this illusion. Let's see if we can spell them out below.

Empty canvas on easel

The Scream painting with masked out subject

Actor paints and becomes The Scream

Animation was timed to green screen. Layered images in Keynote and set a slow "wipe" build in for the painting image

Layered the GS footage and animation in GS app by Do Ink. Trimmed the GS video at the spin. Pasted it & resized it to play out the rest of the clip with the actor in the painting.

This trick doesn't have to be so tricky...

Still image prepared in Keynote where a piece of art looks like it rests on an easel

Green screen video includes a SPIN

Layer the GS video over the still image. I use the SPIN as the point of jumping into the artwork. I copied the video and trimmed it at the spin. Resized the second piece and placed it in the painting

The dancer joins the artwork when she magically SPINS into it.

Spin into the art and Jump back out

Falling Out of a Painting

You can add the "magic" if you need to...

Girls spin (slowly) with GS

Still image of Mondrian's art on Easel

The girls spun too slowly to convince the viewer that "magic" put them in the painting. So I used iMovie to isolate the spin and sped it up

There was no SPIN so I used the jump for the moment of "magic". It wasn't convincing, so I put it in iMovie and added a ripple transition to help make it more magical.

Watch the Fugleflick "TRY YOUR BEST"

Try Your Best is the student made movie that inspired this video effect.

Try Your Best (full version) from Tricia Fuglestad on Vimeo.

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4th Grade Monochromatic Portraits

2/8/2018

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Finished Paintings Gallery

4th graders are finishing up their monochromatic self-portrait paintings drawn in a 3/4 pose. Student studied their faces and features in mirrors, measured, and revised their work. Their sketches were so amazing that we photographed them for Artsonia too.

SKETCHES OF PORTRAITS

Portrait ready for the final step, Black Marker, our art room superhero

Watch Black Marker Video

The color for the monochromatic portraits was randomly selected by a table representative picked it from a hat. Luckily there are no girl or boy colors-right kids?

Watch our Monochromatic Video

Resources:

Below is the front page of a handout I created for the students. We used a shade (color mixed with black) to paint shadows. We used the base color (straight from the bottle) for the rest of the skin. We used a tint (color mixed with white) for the background. The hair and shirt were painted with a neutral (color mixed with black & white). We layered tints and shades on the hair with brush strokes that enhanced the direction and texture of hair. We layered a pattern with the base color on the shirt.

One of the biggest struggles for young artists is to draw their own hair and clothing in a convincing way. This side of the handout showed some examples to get them started.

All students went step by step through the drawing. We mapped out the face, measured, and studied our features in the mirror. This ppt lesson helps students problem-solve.

Click to download this resource from TpT

To help students prepare for their self-portrait before we move to the good paper, we practice drawing all the features of our face using the handout I designed below. I like to put the handout in my iPevo interactive software and use the interactive board to draw. Students can come up to the board and give it a try too.

Fugleflick Resources

Monochromatic uses the lyrics of this original song to explain the meaning of the word. The visuals are full of hints as to what monochromatic means as well.

Monochromatic from Tricia Fuglestad on Vimeo.

Black Marker (super silly) is a favorite movie demonstrating how a black marker line can cover sloppy edges in paintings and bring back all the details into focus.

Black Marker from Tricia Fuglestad on Vimeo.

Digital Extension: Triptych

Since students were randomly given their color pallet for their portrait, this digital extension will give them a chance to see what their portrait would have looked like in a different color. They will use the brushes app on the iPad to shift the hue twice. Then they will put the original and two new versions together in Pic Collage as a triptych.
I've taught this before in the old iOS using an old app that is no longer supported. So, I reconfigured the lesson a bit. View the old post here.

Brushes Redux is a free drawing app. The students will import the digital picture of their portrait into the app and use the hue and saturation tool to shift the color.

They will make a color choice by moving the HUE slider, save it the camera roll, then make another color choice. This will give them the three images needed to make a triptych in Pic Collage.

Student will import their three portraits and choose the three side by side grid. They may have to adjust the placement and size of each portrait before they finalize their triptych.

Student results: go to gallery on Artsonia

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Dynamically Demonstrating Movement

2/7/2018

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5th graders will be dynamically demonstrating the concept of movement over their paintings about movement through the magic of stop motion animation and green screen. Here is the post about this lesson from when we first tried it. One big difference this time around is that we have 6 Dewey iPad stands (thanks to an ABC/25 grant) that gives us lift and stability.

Green Screen and Stop Motion from Tricia Fuglestad on Vimeo.

Step One: Painting about Movement

Click here to view their gallery of finished art on Artsonia.
You can download this lesson (step by step ppt) from TPT here.

Adding line and shape patterns with permapaque markers to our #movement/figure paintings
See our #fugleflick about pattern called REPEAT: https://t.co/3m3LKF7jLN #artsed #k12artchat #mustmakemon pic.twitter.com/TdcaPdXI3M
— Tricia Fuglestad ☕️ (@fuglefun) January 30, 2018

Step Two: Green Screen Stop Motion

I put together a guide for setting up this lesson and a step by step powerpoint for creating the figure painting here:
Download the green screen stop motion lesson from TpT here.
You can also download the figure drawing painting ppt lesson from TpT here.

Big fun in store for my 5th graders#stopmotion #animation with #GreenScreen
They will layer their movement videos into their movement paintings #d25ItsPersonal #drydenrocks #steam @DoInkTweets #edtech #artsed #k12artchat #makered #makerspace pic.twitter.com/39WWtGW1Zs
— Tricia Fuglestad ☕️ (@fuglefun) February 6, 2018

5th graders working collaboratively on their #greenscreen #stopmotion #animations Dynamically demonstrating movement. It will be layered with @DoInkTweets app over their #art #steam #edtech #artsed #k12artchar #makered #makerspace #drydenrocks #d25ItsPersonal pic.twitter.com/xz1qUCdzZv
— Tricia Fuglestad ☕️ (@fuglefun) February 6, 2018

Step Three: Layer image and video

HINT: Here is what it looked like in 2014 when the 4th graders gave this a try.

Student Results: 2018 5th graders

5-1 Movement Over Movement from Tricia Fuglestad on Vimeo.

5-2 Movement over Movement from Tricia Fuglestad on Vimeo.

5-3 Movement over Movement from Tricia Fuglestad on Vimeo.

5-4 Movement over Movement from Tricia Fuglestad on Vimeo.

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Be Like Bacon

2/5/2018

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Bacon is a metaphor for greatness. Try to be like bacon since it's the MEAT that exceeds.
Try to build the puzzle (click the image on the left) to learn more about BACON.