Tricia Fuglestad's Blog - Dryden Art

Vote for KUBA14 for Artist of the Week

11/30/2013

Update: Voted ended. Thanks for taking the time to show your support. Unfortunately we didn't get enough votes for Kuba to win this time.

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We just learned that our 5th grader, KUBA14 is in the running for Artsonia's Artist of the Week. He needs your votes to win a gift certificate for art supplies, a plaque featuring his beautiful tessellation, and eternal fame! The art room will also win $100 for art supplies!
Click the image or here to vote. No login needed. Vote once per day per device through Saturday. Our last try at this was in October. We were only 14 votes away. So PLEASE get the word out and show support for our Dryden artist!

We are so grateful to have a chance again to help a Dryden Student win this recognition with our votes. No login required. Just click the image above, find KUBA14 and vote.

Lima Bean Monster Mobs

11/29/2013

Sure, one lima bean monster is cute, but a massive mob of lima bean monsters is ADORABLE! I started playing with my first graders' images this week (see their individual lima bean monsters here) by assembling them into different designs. To be honest, it became a bit of an obsession. I was so engrossed in these monster mobs that I actually asked my family to pass the lima beans during thanksgiving dinner. Oops, I meant green bean casserole. I kept on designing until every first graders' lima bean was used in a mob. I uploaded the images to each student's portfolio as well. I hope you enjoy these cute little creatures and always remember to EAT YOUR VEGGIES.

Turn a $10 gift into $60 towards iPads

11/27/2013

UPDATE! our Donors Choose project is Complete! Thank you!
Dear Jeff Warsaw, Richard Stachon, Linda Kieling, Anne Peters, Grace Wegrzyn, Barbara Powers, Fuglefun, Rich Galka, Amy Goodman, Moogie, Jennifer Strimling, Lauren Wenk, Angie Fischer, Alison Hannon, Celebrate Schools! and Anonymous Donors,
My students are going to be SO excited to have these two iPads in our art room. We are working on bringing 1:1 iPad access in our program by entering contests, writing grants, and fundraising so that integration is meaningful, timely, and transformative. Your donations have helped us towards this goal tremendously! Last year our efforts brought us 12 iPads. These two bring us a large step closer to our goal. Just the other day, my students were doing collaborative art with partners on the iPad and hands started to raise. They asked, "When do I get to make my own?" I'm closer to having an answer for that question now because of you!
Thank you so much for your thoughtful and kind gifts to my young artists who can't wait to create.

With gratitude,
Mrs. Fuglestad

Turn a $10 donation into a $60

1. Buy a Groupon for $10 ($30 value) using my my referral link . You will have search "donor's choose" to find it.
2. Give the $30 gift to our iPad project on Donor's Choose.
3. Because you used my referral, I will receive $10 which I will put towards a $30 groupon for Donor's Choose.
This means that your $10 donation will be equal to $60! Thank you!

Use my referral link so I can donate the $10

Give to our Dryden Art iPad project

I would love to send you a thank you gift if you give. So, please leave a comment.

Art Room News, November 25th

11/25/2013

Turkey Tessellation made in Amaziograph App. Click to learn how.

Thank you for taking a few moments to look through this newsletter and learn about the amazing things we are doing in Dryden's Art Room.

Fugleblog Posts:

Allow us to Illustrate (the Fugleflick) (new fugleflick release!)
Translational Tessellations (see what 5th graders will be doing)
Technology's Artsy Side (I was quoted in this article from Tech News World)
Art Contest and Artsonia Coupon (Contest details due SOON and Coupon code)

Tweets from Fuglefun:

Instagram Video:

Video by fuglefun (1st grader working on lima bean monster with a crazy hat)
fuglefun on Instagram (looking at second grade ghost animations)
fuglefun on Instagram (3rd grader using IWB to practice overlapping)

Art Contest and Artsonia Coupon

11/25/2013

"Art is Everywhere"
Illinois Arts Education Week Poster Contest.
Learn more here
Download the form here.
Due to Mrs. Fuglestad by Monday, Dec. 2nd

3 years ago we had two honorable mentions in this poster contest. View their trip to Springfield for the award reception here.

Our Honorable Mentions from Tricia Fuglestad on Vimeo.

Artsonia Coupon Code until 12/15

Any of the art uploaded to your child's portfolio can be made into a keepsake through Artsonia. You can even upload your own photos from your camera or Facebook and have it made into a mug, shirt, phone case, mouse pad, magnet, card, etc.
-------Start shopping now-----
Every purchase gives back 20% to the art program which will help us buy iPad for the art room. Learn more about our iPad campaign here.

My cabinets are filled with Artsonia Mugs

Technology's Artsy Side

11/25/2013

Click to view the full article

"New technologies are transforming how artists make and market their work, but they aren't changing its content. These new tools are being used to deal with age-old human emotions, questions and dilemmas. Digital art really isn't all that different from its analog versions, since it's still about telling stories and examining what it means to be human."

My contribution to this article from Tech News World is on the topic of teaching a new generation.
Read the story here or browse my excerpt below:

"I use technology in art instruction and art production with all my k-5 population," said art instructor Tricia Fuglestad, who incorporates a variety of digital technologies into her lesson plans at Dryden Elementary School."We explore art concepts digitally through interactive lessons on the interactive board, and we use our green screen and video-editing tools to make Fugleflicks, [which are] student-created, art-related movies," she told TechNewsWorld.

Video-editing and sharing technologies have become central to art education for Fuglestad, and she says they give her students new and unique ways of expressing themselves and communicating.

"Because of my access to technology, I can open up new opportunities for my students to extend and enhance their learning," said Fuglestad. "I've been able to connect my students to authentic audiences [and] give them art-making opportunities like animation moviemaking and graphic design that would otherwise be inaccessible."

I shared three main ideas: Teaching digitally, Creating Movies, and transforming learning with new technologies such as the iPad. Here are some posts that will help you explore what I am referring to in more depth.

Explore how we learn

Making Fugleflicks

Creating on iPads

Here is a two minute peek at what we do in our art room at Dryden.
Warning: You may catch the Fuglevision (it's very contagious and there is no cure)

Technology for Art Instruction and Production from Tricia Fuglestad on Vimeo.

Translational Tessellations

11/24/2013

Translational Tessellations using Amaziograph App from Tricia Fuglestad on Vimeo.

My students finished making their construction paper translational tessellations you can view them in our online art gallery on Artsonia here.
Unfortunately we have to make our digital tessellations collaboratively since we only have half the iPads needed for our classroom. Help solve this problem with a donation to our iPad campaign through Donors Choose or Edbacker.com. My students and I thank you very much! We love creating on iPads!

Printable example page

Printable example page (continued)

Download both example sheets as a printable pdf here.

Below are images from students using the Amaziograph App in Art Class

Here is a link to my 5th graders' digital tessellations made from this app.
Look for may article about this project in the
April 2014 issue of School Arts Magazine

Allow us to Illustrate (the Fugleflick)

11/20/2013

After two and 1/2 months of singing, storyboarding, animating, filming and editing
we are finally ready to release our long awaited for and completely amazing new Fugleflick, "Allow us to Illustrate". These 10 filmmakers took on the challenge of explaining the importance of illustrations and their connection to literacy in this upbeat and entertaining short video. This group was a part of beta testing the new Green Screen app by DOINK. They planned the film to fully harness the power of this amazing app as they drew illustrations in the DOINK animation app and backgrounds in sketchbook express to layer all together with live footage filmed before our classroom green screen. It's amazing how simple it was for students to interact with their art and animation via this app. Watch the final movie below. They also have a karaoke page where you can sing along with the music and lyrics.

Allow us to Illustrate from Tricia Fuglestad on Vimeo.

Filmmaking is a wonderful exercise in collaboration, problem-solving, and creativity.
Watch the behind the scenes video to get a glimpse of the work that went into this production. You can learn more about making Fugleflicks by watching my K12 Online presentation here as well.

The Making of Allow us to Illustrate from Tricia Fuglestad on Vimeo.

Don't forget that you can celebrate this film by getting the gear via our online art gallery on Artsonia. Every purchase gives back to our classroom.
We are currently trying to raise money for a 1:1 iPad art room.
If you rather donate to our iPad campaign directly please use this link to our Donor's Choose project. Thank you!

Art Room News, November 15, 2013

11/15/2013

A scene from the soon to be release Fugleflick, "Allow us to Illustrate"

Thank you so much for taking the time to find out what amazing things are happening in Dryden's Art program. We are currently trying to raise money for a class set of iPads for the art room. We are HALF WAY THERE thanks to fundraisers, grants, and contest winnings. Please make a tax deductable donation to either one of our fundraisers:
THIS ONE (all or nothing campaign) or THIS ONE (every little bit counts campaign).
Your children and I thank you!
Listen to Alek explain why we need them
Listen to Lexi's and other 5th graders' message of thanks.

News from the Fugleblog:

Making and Sharing Fugleflicks (learn about how create our art stories here)
Digital Appalachian Mountains (Make art physically and digitally)
8 iPad Lessons with One Free App (Sketchbook X is a free and amazing app)
Let me Paint for You! (as a thank you for a $50 donation to our iPad Campaign)
Multi-disciplinary Spooky Landscapes (Focus on 2nd graders' project)
Creating on iPads Free Online Class (Sit down with your child and draw along)
Our Lego Wall was Installed! (Read our whole story and our published article)
Lima Bean Monster (Working on these in First Grade)
Monochromatic Self-Portraits (Here is a post from last time)

Tweets you may have missed:

Our Lego Wall was Installed!

11/15/2013

One year ago our Lego Wall was just a dream. I wrote and submitted a grant for it to our ABC/25 district grant foundation and was waiting to hear back. View my grant here. I received word that it was granted in December. When I went to make the purchase I realized that LEGO doesn't do purchase orders for schools. So, the foundation president kindly agreed to purchase everything from her credit card. After the parent volunteers and their pre-schools helped color sort the lego brick, I introduced my 1st-5th graders to a collaborative rotational symmetry challenge. I wrote about how we did this in November's School Arts Magazine. View my post about this here.
Towards the end of the school year, before every student had a chance to participate in the Lego Wall designs, I realized I had underestimated the number of bricks I needed to complete our wall. That's when I learned about a crowd funding startup called Edbacker. We posted a campaign and quickly raised the money to complete the project. The very last brick was entered on the very last plate on the very last day of school! The plates went up on display this week after the district ordered and installed our display board. This is a reusable installation. I'm looking forward to seeing how our artist do on our next challenge!

Our Lego Wall was made possible because of so many people working together. It was a collaborative project in every way. Thank you!

Look=newly installed @drydenschool #lego wall-Just in time 4R article in @schoolarts @ahsd25 http://t.co/h6gQBpPPNc pic.twitter.com/uQT1hiblXp
— Tricia Fuglestad (@fuglefun) November 13, 2013

Taking a Turn

This video explains how to make a rotationally symmetrical with legos collaboratively using a method that is a simple as taking a turn.

Rotational Symmetry with Legos from Tricia Fuglestad on Vimeo.

I wrote up this lesson for School Arts Magazine published Nov. 2013. View it here.