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The Kindness Kiosk

6/2/2018

The KINDNESS KIOSK is a solution for sharing our third grade digital projects will all the students. I have their KINDNESS CAMPAIGN moving memes class videos looping as a slideshow using guided access on an iPad in a tamper proof iPad stand (we purchased this one).

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Kindness Campaign: Moving Memes

9/18/2017

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Here is an idea I'm playing with. I would love for students to write a statement about how they can be kind next to themselves looking as sweet as an angel with flapping animated wings and halo or other symbols of kindness.

Learn about kindness in stories

Prepare your kindness statement

Download this brainstorming handout on front, and reference for wings on back.

Use this worksheet to prepare your kindness statement

How?

1. Students pose angelically before green screen.
2. Import the image into Superimpose App. Use masking tools (magic wand and paint brush) to erase the background. Save using "mask as png" to retain transparency.

3. Using the Do Ink animation app, student can animate the wings and halo using this guide to see some steps for moving the wings.

Students open up a new drawing in Do Ink animation app. They need to make a three frame drawing with the progression above. Then click on the 2nd drawing and copy it (copy and paste are revealed when you click on the double arrows in the bottom right corner). Click on the third drawing and choose "paste". This will put the 2nd drawing after the 3rd drawing to make a 1-2-3-2- progression that loops nicely.

4. Open another drawing in Do Ink animation app and draw a halo. Click + and draw another slightly different. Repeat until you have 3 frames with small changes in each.

5. Now you're ready to put all the pieces together. Open a new composition in Do Ink animation app and begin layering in your pieces. Start from the back to the front: import the wings (use the star button). HINT: DO NOT TOUCH THE GREEN BUTTON ON AN IMAGE YOU IMPORT. Doing so will create an animation path. That is a different effect. Resize by grabbing a handle on the edge, place it where you need it by touching it anywhere else but the green dot, slow down the animation (under the gear tab) to about half the speed. Next bring in the PNG pose from the camera roll (using the camera button). Resize/place. Bring in the halo (using the star) & resize/place/slow down animation. Next, choose the "T" to write your text. Resize/place. Next, pick a background color from the "i" tab at the top. Click the play button to test it out. When you're finished save as a video to your camera roll.

6. Convert the movie to a moving meme in a GIF format by using EZGIF.com
Save the GIF to your camera roll. It can play a GIF in places like Twitter or website.

Brainstorming strategy:

Follow this process to help students in class each come up with an original idea for being kind in a variety of spaces in the building. If this process works, student will learn from each other and each have a unique statement to add to their moving meme.

Resources:

Random Acts of Kindness Club (1st graders)

Our kindergarteners share their ideas of how to be kind.

How to be Kind by K-3 from Tricia Fuglestad on Vimeo.

Results: View the art on Artsonia

Teacher's note: We didn't make halos because the wings were more challenging than I expected them to be for my 3rd graders. We all drew the wings in the same direction and then flipped them if we needed to to correspond to their pose.

Moving Memes Movies

3-3 Moving Memes from Tricia Fuglestad on Vimeo.

3-4 Moving Memes from Tricia Fuglestad on Vimeo.

3-1 Moving Memes from Tricia Fuglestad on Vimeo.

3-2 Moving Memes from Tricia Fuglestad on Vimeo.

Digital Display

Pyle iPad Stand

Guided access keeps viewers from changing or stopping the slideshow

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is the K-5 art teacher at Dryden Elementary School in Arlington Heights, IL. with a masters in K-12 technology integration. Tricia has been recognized for her innovative teaching in 2010 with the PBS Teachers Innovation Award, won Illinois Art Teacher of the Year in 2011, awarded Teacher of Distinction in 2012 by the Golden Apple Foundation, received Western Region Elementary Art Teacher of the Year 2013, selected to become a Jacobs Educator 2014-15, was presented with the NAEA Art Technology Outstanding Community Service Award in 2016, honored with the ISTE Teacher Educator Network Tech in Action award, 2018, and won an Art Education Leadership Award via Artsonia in 2019. Learn more here.