Tricia Fuglestad's Blog

Animations and Tessellations

1/14/2015

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Thanks to my former art education professor from the University of Illinois, Elizabeth Delacruz, I was able to contribute to an article published in the Journal of Texas Art Education Association, Trends. On page 64 I shared my excitement about how iPads can transform and open new opportunities for learning in the art room.
I gave the example of how I taught my second graders to demonstrate overlapping, transparency, and the illusion of depth in their landscape by using animating a semi-transparent ghost over their spooky landscape paintings with the iPad app DoInk. Read my post from this lesson.
Read just my contribution to the article here.

Available via Crystal Productions 2/2015

I am also happy to find that my digital tessellations lesson that I submitted to School Arts Magazine found its way into the third edition of Bridging the Curriculum through Art book co-authored by Pamela Stephens and Nancy Walkup (who also is the editor of School Arts Mag.) They used one of my tessellation examples on the cover~stacked cats. This lesson is a digital extension of a physical art piece. I was able to teach my students a traditional tessellation lesson and then let them use the same concepts in a digital format on the iPads using the Amaziograph app. Read my blog post with tutorials and handouts here. Read my School Arts article here.

Students drew translational tessellations with styluses in the Amaziograph app on iPads then uploaded their art to Artsonia via a QR code.

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Technology's Artsy Side

11/25/2013

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"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.

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Dryden Artists Featured in Magazine

7/5/2013

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I have THRILLING news for many Dryden Students today! I was interviewed by Alyson Stamos of Natural Child World Magazine about Dryden's Art Program towards the end of the school year thanks to the recommendation of Jack Tovey, art instructor/digital media specialist and Amanda Armstrong, Program Coordinator for Erikson Institute's TEC Center.

The article talks about how our students use digital media and devices to create art, shows six of my second grader's digital abstract cats in the style of Laurel Birch, and four of our fourth grader's Wish for the World images.
(More ideas on my Creating on iPads page)

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Dryden Takes the Cake

10/11/2012

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Collaborative effort from students, community helps make the school's video submission a winner, teacher says. Read the online article here.

Thank you everyone who showed us support with your votes. This is $5000 is YOUR win for OUR students!

Dryden School Art Teacher, 5th Graders Win $5K Grant with McGraw-Hill STEMIE (click title to read the story)
Dryden art teacher Tricia Fuglestad and her class from Arlington Heights Dryden Elementary School recently won a prestigious STEMIE award from McGraw-Hill Education for innovation in the area of Science, Technology, Engineering and Math. The collaborative work by 100 fifth graders took second place and brings a grant award of $5,000 to Dryden Elementary School, 722 South Dryden Place in Arlington Heights. The combined technology and art project required 335 drawn images by 100 fifth graders on a class using Apple iPads with styluses and team work. The rotoscope animation collaboration was a unique experiment in creativity and cooperation, and learning to envision the big picture compared to the student’s individual piece of the puzzle.

Dryden STEM project finishes 2nd in national contestStudents and staff at Dryden Elementary in Arlington Heights are celebrating a national recognition and the $5,000 prize that came with it last week. Read this article from the Daily Herald.

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Apps for Video FX

7/10/2012

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Way back when I was first playing with iMovie to make videos for my students I had to go through a very complicated process to do special effects. Be Kind to Your Erasers was filmed as two layers: one for the the finger and one for the lips. I used a third-party plug-in to create a picture in picture FX and did my best to layer the lips on to the fingers. It was inaccurately placed at times if the finger moved too much and the coloring didn't blend well. But, the results worked for me. I was only trying to convince my students to be kind to their erasers.
I remember destroying a Barbie Doll for the hair, painting a finger themed school room background, and using a twist tie for glasses. I was having a blast, giggling and playing like a 10 year old while putting the story together. I think I spent only a day or two of my summer vacation working on this video, but learned enough about editing imovie, script writing, and organizing a video to start doing this with my students the following school year. This is my favorite way to learn technology; by playing.

Now that I've acquired an iPad, I'm finding that there are apps that can be used for awesome video FX that would make recreating this movie much easier.
Funny Movie Maker- layers video over images (the lips effect). example
Paper Camera- makes rotoscoped looking videos. example
Doink-makes animated movies a piece of cake (like Flash but easier interface). example
Brushes- makes video from every stroke and choice made in creating art. example
FaceJack- does what Blabberize does for making an image talk. example
Puppet Pals or Explain Everything-make animated videos w/audio example

What else can we add to this list? Please chime in!

By the way, Be Kind to Your Erasers has a Cafe Press store where you can get the gear. The products feature my favorite line from the movie,
"Oh no! Not the hair!"
Trivia: Did you know this movie was made after I rented the video Thumbtanic.
Trivia: Did you know that I was once recognized at the NAEA conference after I said the word "eraser".
Learn more about Fugleflicks from this
Daily Edventures interview.

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Managing the Classroom with Videos!

4/5/2012

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Take a look in the May 2012 edition of School Arts Magazine to see my article called, Striving for Artistry. In this article I explain my strategy of creating videos with students for students to help motivate my young artists to try their best in the art room.

P.S. Read the article by Michelle Savran. She creates great art education animations for her students and even credits our Fugleflicks as an encouragement! We're honored:)

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Dryden Art in the Tribune

12/22/2011

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Dryden art teacher unites art, technology

The halls of Dryden Elementary are like the walls of a mini art museum, filled with Lima bean monsters, spoofs of Rene Magritte’s “The Son of Man” and a massive tile mosaic of student artwork.
Art teacher Tricia Fuglestad is making her mark on Dryden – one wall at a time – but she’s also making one internationally with her forward-thinking use of technology in the art classroom.

Read the whole article from Tribune reporter Michelle Stoffel at this link.

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