Blog Archives - Dryden Art

Tweets of the Week

8/30/2013

I've been tweeting pictures and audioboos from the art room this week. If you don't follow my twitter feed @fuglefun you can still see some of the things I've shared recently below. You may want to subscribe to my Fugleblog as well so you can stay in the loop with the fun things that are going on in the Dryden art room. Enter your email here---->

Another cool use for the @ipevo USB doc cam. Perfect way for students to explore surrealism in #artsed pic.twitter.com/6W92K6dTW2
— Tricia Fuglestad (@fuglefun) August 26, 2013

I showed Ms. Koob, my student teacher, how to make custom photo booth effects.
You can view my tutorial and try it yourself. It's a great way to have students enter artwork and/or speak through a painting. Below students are using the camera app to create a super close up photo to juxtapose into a piece of art they will create soon.

Ready (or not) for your close up? Getting surreal in #artsed pic.twitter.com/rIAFVPGo5C
— Tricia Fuglestad (@fuglefun) August 29, 2013

Kindergarten's 1st day in #artsed http://t.co/atgv8p36om The answer is "primary colors" but it doesn't quite sound like it-they're trying:)
— Tricia Fuglestad (@fuglefun) August 30, 2013

On the first day of art in Kindergarten, students are introduced to the three most important colors in the universe, "The Primary Colors". Above they are working on a crayon colorwheel with color mixing for secondary colors. Below you can see us building a color wheel physically as I build mine digitally using my simple mimio studio game.

Wow! The color wheel game in art class is so fun! @fuglefun @DrydenSchool pic.twitter.com/dH7i8f3nY8
— Akemi Sessler (@AkemiSessler) August 29, 2013

Prevent Sticky Situations!

8/25/2013

An ounce of prevention is worth a ....ton of paper towels, tears of frustrations, and lots of class time. Let's revisit how to take care of our art supplies.
Below, one of my classroom glue bottles introduces the feature film, The Glue Blues.

The Glue Blues from Tricia Fuglestad on Vimeo.

The Glue Blues is one of our award-winning Fugleflicks (Student-Created, Art-Related) videos.
You can now download this QR Code book for your classroom featuring 20 of our favorite Fugleflicks for your students to scan on their device and view independently.
I also made an eBook version of this book that you can load to your iPad. View both here.

Quick Peek at our First Week

8/23/2013

Actually, it hasn't even been a full week of school for the students, but I can't wait to show some of the cool picture I snapped of students since they arrived on Wednesday.

Using the iPads to answer quiz questions

Using the interactive board & Socrative app

We are so excited to celebrate with the Dryden artists who had their artwork published in the July/August issue of Natural Child World Magazine. See some of them below.

Peter holds an energy-saving management strategy

Love what Filip wore today

Welcome Ms. Koob

8/20/2013

Please join me in welcoming (back) Ms. Koob to the art room at Dryden for the first 8 weeks of the school year as my student teacher.

Hello parents and faculty! My name is Nicole Koob and I will be the student teacher in the art room this semester. I am a student at the University of Illinois in Champaign-Urbana double majoring in Art Education and Art History. My course background includes courses dealing with education as well as finding my own creative style in the arts. This semester my goal is to have students grasp a greater understanding of what art is and how it is truly an irreplaceable experience. I want to offer art as an outlet of expression to my students to help them gain a personal sense of accomplishment, ownership, and confidence while creating their work. I know that my teaching philosophy will be supported through Dryden’s art program because I am a former Dryden student and also had the opportunity to have Mrs. Fuglestad as my art teacher. I believe her teaching inspired my love for art and the desire to continue studying its history and impact on the world. I look forward to learning from Mrs. Fuglestad and gaining experience from Dryden’s art program, because with each interaction I have with my students, my understanding and appreciation for art grows stronger.http://msnicolekoob.weebly.com

Ms. Koob on her first day of Kindergarten at Dryden Elementary School

Ms. Koob, lower left, during her Where the Wild Things Are musical.

The movie below is a video tribute to Dryden's class of 2002. Ms. Koob appears many times as the video spans kindergarten through 5th grade of her graduating class. See if you can spot her!

Back to School

8/19/2013

Today was opening day in SD25. All Teachers had a full day of meetings. Dryden teachers stayed late for the ice cream social/meet the teachers night.This meant my room had to be perfect by 5pm on the first day back. The process began in early August because of the way my room always looks after they move everything to wax the floors and I have to be a certified GEEK to get all my tech back in running order, which I am, luckily. I found a before and after app, so I took a picture that first day and again tonight so you can see the transformation. (This app would be fun to use with student artwork.)

This app gives you a transparent view of you "before" picture so you can try to line up the "after" picture to match. Then, you get choices for presentation. Above is a stacked view. Below is the animation of the transformation.

Over the summer I followed a conference attendee on twitter who drew his presentation notes on the Paper app and tweeted them. I thought they were very useful and lovely to look at so I decided to try to take notes that way. Here are my notes from today.

Tech Academy XV Workshop

8/16/2013

Creating on iPads workshop

This was my fifteenth year of either attending or presenting at my district's tech academy. This has always been a valuable venue for hands on technology learning and exploration. This is where I first learned to build a website, edit a movie, export a document, and build a slideshow. I owe a big thank you to District 25 for years of training!

Josh Stumpenhorst, 2012 Illinois Teacher of the Year, gave the keynote speech to kick off our tech academy. You can view the tweets from the conference at #techacademy25

Josh Stumpenhorst gave the Keynote

Chris Fahnoe, Director of Technology

Below are some of the projects we explored in my Creating on iPads Workshop. We used my website as a guide for resources, but again found that 2 hours wasn't enough time.

We entered the Crown Fountain and gave it a reflecting pool. Click to see this lesson.

We downloaded by collaborative art template and each drew a section of a figure to learn the drawing tools. Find my template on the Creating on iPads page.

We creating dramatic quotes using camwow and pic collage. Click to see the lesson.

We tried a creativity project with clouds.

We drew over the cloud of our choice to show what we see in it. Then shared our drawing with AirServer

This DOINK animation of a cabbage monster was based on the Lima Bean Monster lesson. Click to view.

This transparent ghost DOINK animation is based on the Really Spooky Landscape lesson. Click to view.

That's right, I teach in the same dist. as @fuglefun ! In her "creating w iPads" session at #TechAcademy25 #ahsd25 pic.twitter.com/xt9pvE6Zk4
— Joy Kirr (@JoyKirr) August 15, 2013

Swarming with Ideas

8/13/2013

Superheroes, ghosts, Godzilla, Lima Bean Monsters, and Fairies are all major players in just some of the ideas I explored this summer to teach some valuable art ideas and concepts to my students. I have all these ideas and much more on this page.

I organized 15 of my iPad lesson ideas from this summer into this smore flyer so you can quickly view the ideas, click, and learn more.
Click the image to go to the flyer or click here.

I also created two books in different formats for my students that I am sharing with you if you are interested. One is a QR code book for students to scan and view 20 of our favorite Fugleflicks, student-created, art-related videos. This way you can send students to the QR book to scan, let them watch, and learn art concepts independently on their devices.
The other is an interactive eBook for the iPad of the same 20 Fugleflicks. So you can have it loaded and ready to set up as a center in the art room.

QR CODE printable book

eBook to load on your iPad

As part of my beginning of the year ritual, I put together a video of the highlights of last school year. It's a great way to reflect on all we accomplished in art class, celebrate our successes, and energize the students for a great year to come. Take a 4 minute peek at our 2012-2013 school year below or at this link.

Highlights from Dryden's Art Program 2012-13 from Tricia Fuglestad on Vimeo.

Fairy Evidence

8/13/2013

Fairy Evidence animated in DOINK app

Yesterday I watched a video of Lydia, the Fairy Scientist, who is on a mission to find evidence to support her hypothesis that fairies exist. This adorable video shared on Pernille Ripp's blog and tweeted to me by @bmuench is about the scientific method.

As an art teacher who loves to infuse technology, I thought I would add STEAM to this STEM lesson by creating fairy evidence via a drawing/animation app on the iPad.

I drew this two frame animated fairy in DOINK on the iPad. (Fairies get their energy from pastel colors, so I used a bunch of them).

Then I created a composition in DOINK where I brought in a photo from my garden (fairies like flowers) and drew a path for her to travel over it.

@greeneyegal

I have evidence of other fairies drawn using drawing apps like sketchbook express on the iPad. These are made in the likeness of friends from my PLN. Click the fairies to see their twitter accounts.

@tiedemania

If you decide to draw your fairy in a drawing app instead of DOINK, you would need to save it as a PNG with a transparent background. There is a very convenient app for this called Superimpose (.99) I have been playing with this app to think of new uses for the other tools and stumbled on this idea. I made a silhouette of my fairy drawing by inverting the masking tool and layering black as a background. That sounds hard, but it was just a few clicks, really. I finished off the image in SketchbookX where I added a phrase ala the old iTunes/iPod ads from apple.

IAEA iPad Workshop Wrap-up

8/12/2013

I wanted to take a second to share what we explored & made during and after our IAEA Northeast council mini conference where I held two 80 minute (which was not enough time) iPad workshops.

Click the image to learn more about this IAEA sponsored one-day mini conference

Superhero animation with iPad app DOINK. Simple two frame animation, moving skyline and background

Ben poses for the Man of Steel lesson (click to learn more)

We began our session with collaborative drawing that teaches an image sharing technique, drawing tools, layers, and is open ended enough for creativity.

The wifi network blocked airplay so I was very lucky to have my iPevo with me.

Great day in Chicago! "Gear Up and Go" was a blast. Thanks @Ilaea @fuglefun Always great connecting w/ art educators!
— Mr. Stachon (@rstachon) August 8, 2013

http://t.co/CGxfpJ7rOk #artsed #art @fuglefun @Ilaea @weebly @hilland
— Jeanne Bjork (@bellafiore3) September 2, 2013

@fuglefun worked on drawings the entire train ride in! Thanks for inspiring me. Will post once I finish, sometime next week!
— Carol Broos (@musictechie) August 9, 2013

Below is what Carol created after class using some of the ideas we explored.
She made this video to introduce her session at iPad Academy in Chicago.

iPad Workshops and DIY Learning

8/7/2013

I just updated my Creating on iPads page with all the newest links to ideas and resources I've explored over the summer. You can download my presentation handouts, iPad grants, view all my tutorials, and snag my resources so you can play right away.

GET STARTED HERE

If you rather learn these creative ideas in a hands on workshop join me on

August 8th at the Gear Up and Go mini conference
August 15th at Tech Academy XV
October 24-26th at IAEA Conference
or

Contact me to set one up a workshop in your district