Category: Collaboration

Family STEAM Night Sphero Painting

5/17/2018

Spheros (robots controlled by an iPad App) will help families CREATE

The Plan

Six canvases were masked out with tape to spell the word CREATE.
These canvases will be covered in paint spread by Spheros driven by families using iPads.

We borrowed spheros from Windsor and Patton to make a set of 6 (one per canvas). Then covered them with special washable covers to add texture to the art and protection to the robotic devices as the are directed to run through the paint to spread it.

The Set Up:

Coming soon

Connected all the @SpheroEdu robots to #ipads
- ready to roll#steam night #Drydenrocks #artsed #d25itspersonal pic.twitter.com/1VFJP0HYOd
— Tricia Fuglestad ☕️ (@fuglefun) May 17, 2018

In progress:

Another amazing activity put on by @fuglefun using @Sphero I can't wait to see the finished product!! #STEAMNight @DrydenSchool pic.twitter.com/vMWOtzZCVY
— Laurie Wasik (@laurie_wasik) May 17, 2018

Results: purple mush-UGH!

So, we learned TWO things about sphero painting as we worked
1. It only takes about 15 minutes to paint a small canvas.
2. Spheros only hold their charge for an hour or less.
Both of these things were learned while we were working on our HOUR long event. This meant that we over-worked the canvases almost immediately and ran the spheroes down in charge before the last session ended (UGH).

Results 2.o: 5th graders to the rescue

I asked the 5th graders in 5-1 to see if they could FIX this problem while using up the rest of the poured paint (that would have gone down the drain). The challenge was to make an abstract design with overlapping CLEAN colors.

Here is how our “fix” went today- thanks everyone who responded with ideas pic.twitter.com/po52aWlw6z
— Tricia Fuglestad ☕️ (@fuglefun) May 24, 2018

I re-taped the letters on the canvases and we gave it a try. The plan was to make a mark on each canvas to give them unity and balance without MUSHING up the colors. We started with paint brushes but switched to popsicle sticks half-way through class so that our mark making was looser and the application thicker.

The bright white of the letters contrasts nicely with the textured multi-colored backgrounds

Removed the tape and covered with varnish

I displayed it over the entrance to the art room

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Swapping Animations and other tricks

1/24/2018

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The Do Ink Animation app allows you to save files in their original format, export animations as movies, or create stills from the movies. If you save them in the original format you can only view them by pulling the file into the app. But this also means you can SWAP your animations from one iPad to another so you can layer effects or try this cool trick. What you're seeing below is one animation shared out with two other iPads. I change the animation path on each one and set the timing to make it look like the sprite is flying from one screen to the next.

Click me to download the Data DoInk File

Make an animation. Mine was like this.
Use the share button to save as Data (DOINK) You can practice using my sprite file here
Copy it to the Dropbox (or Google Drive)
Open Dropbox on a different iPad
Find the file, choose "...", choose EXPORT
Choose "Open in..."
Select Copy to Animation App (Do Ink)
I did this in a third iPad as well.
My animation was playing over a color background. So I made a still image of the color and used it to help fill up my time so the screen will look blank while it waits for the other iPad to play the animation.
iPad 1: The first 3 seconds were my animation then I used my blank color image to fill up 6 more seconds. My movie was a total of 9 seconds long.
iPad 2: I used my blank color image for the first 3 seconds, my animation ran for the next 3 seconds, and my color blank filled the last 3 seconds. My total animation was 9 seconds.
iPad 3: I used my blank color image for the first 6 seconds and my animation filled the last 3 seconds for a total of 9 second movie.
Then, I asked for help and we hit play on all three iPads at the exact same time.

Swap for storytelling and collaborations

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Exquisite Corpse Collaborative #DotDay

9/25/2017

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Click the box image to view what I purchased for this project.

5th graders are going to do an all grade-level collaboration in celebration of International Dot Day. They will contribute an exquisite corpse drawing of either a HEAD, MIDDLE, or LEGS on a cardboard cube. This idea was inspired by the IAEA conference. They had the cubes set up on tables for us all to draw on in pencil. I took some back with me to inspire my students...and it worked. My students were very inspired by them and were begging to try it too. So, I used our amazon gift card from winning a NextVista.org contest to buy the boxes for this year.

Planning:

Here is a graphic I made to describe my plan. Every student in 5th grade is part of a large collaboration, so I want them to understand the big picture.

Planning sheet for the Exquisite Corpse Project

Inspiration/Resources:

See the slideshow video below for creative solutions from artists and illustrators. These examples come from this Kids @ Random lesson. I made them into handouts as well.

Exquisite Corpse Examples by Slidely Slideshow

I made these into a four-page handout to print and put at tables as resources.

Questioning:

When I was at the IAEA conference last year, I was very inspired by this lesson. Not everyone was taking the time to create, so I did three drawings on one side of a stack of boxes. Later, I took this picture and reflected. I like to be different and break the rules when I create art, but would that work during a collaboration?

Examples: Bold, big, patterned, painted

My examples (made digitally using Brushes Redux)

My examples painted on cardboard boxes

Students Working: (in progress)

Students are done designing their "head", "middle", or "legs" and began their first step of painting. They traced their design in black marker, erased the pencil lines, and painted a solid background color. They had to choose a color that was different than their neighbors. Each started painting from right to left so that the middle line of paint might be dry when the second artist paints next to it. The boxes are laid flat until we are finished painting. I pulled some off the drying rack (below) to get a glimpse of some future combinations. Aren't these fun?

Student Results:

Below is a peek at some of our finished painted heads, middles, and legs. View the whole gallery on Artsonia here.

Digital Exquisite Corpse Collages

Each student will make a digital collage of their piece and two classmates using Pic Collage for Kids. See the gallery here.

Made by teacher at IAEA

My painted examples

Label for students to hang near their interactive art installation

These exquisite corpse collaborations will be sculptural interactive pieces. Other students throughout the school will enjoy spinning the head, body, and legs to make new combinations. So, the fifth graders will need to make a plan for where they will install each set, make directions that invite respectful engagement, and a museum label that credits each artist.
I also hope to assign students to check on the installations each day to make sure they are respected.

All of the exquisite corpses were mounted up on a base with a museum label. Student wrote the artist names, chose locations, installed and photographed them, then wrote a morning announcement to announce them to the school community.

Math Problems based on Art

Our 24 boxes with various combinations created these math problems.
View the answers here.

Resource: Monster Mixer Online Game

This game, Monster Mixer by Crayola, might help students generate some fun monster themed combinations when they begin drawing their ideas. I collected a bunch of their monster combinations and printed them out as another resource for my students (below).

Here is another online game called switcheroo by crayola that helps you think of creative heads, middles, and legs as well as arms, wings, and whatevers...

Digital Extension:

CREATING DIGITALLY: Years ago, before we were a 1:1 iPad art room, we used our limited number of iPads to make collaborative exquisite corpse drawings. Here is a link to that lesson and template.

DISPLAYING DIGITALLY: Each square created will be photographed for students' online digital art gallery. These can be added to folders on our dropbox where students can combine a head, middle, and legs of their choices (one being their own) to make a fun digital combination. I used the Superimpose app and its perspective tool to line up the squares on top of a real photo to create this effect.

USING PERSPECTIVE TOOL IN SUPERIMPOSE APP:
First import the template (above) as the background layer then follow these steps. I made the directions into this printable PDF here or view the pages below.

5th graders inspiring us all

Exquisite Corpse blocks sitting on the art room counter

During the last week of school we are going to use the fifth graders' art to inspire the rest of the school to try the Exquisite Corpse game using the game sheet below or here.

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5-1 Took The Mannequin Challenge

6/7/2017

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Exploring collaboration, creativity, body language, storytelling, and theme

Click to view this quick "how to" video

5-1 has been begging me to do the mannequin challenge for months. I kept putting it off until today, their last day of art class at Dryden. We watched this how to video, chose a theme (the teacher isn't looking), rehearsed, then filmed in one long take this amazing scene. Great job 5th graders! What a creative way to practice group collaborations!

The Mannequin Challenge from Tricia Fuglestad on Vimeo.

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Collaborative Dance Video

6/5/2017

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Layered green screen video over background made in Kaleido Free app

Students danced or moved for 2 seconds

They saved a video of their Kaleido free radial design

They layered the two videos in the Green Screen app by Do Ink

To celebrate the end of the year, 1st and 2nd graders who finished their projects early made a collaborative music video. Each student contributed a 2 second clip of themselves dancing over a video of a radial design. The music video that inspired us was also an artistic piece created with rotoscoping.

Students tried to crop and get a clean green screen effect for their 2 secs of fame

Finished Dance Video:

Stayed tuned to the very end to see the students dancing along at the last day of school assembly. Thanks Mrs. Quick for taking the footage.

Dream of Dancing from Tricia Fuglestad on Vimeo.

All Dryden students were completely energized by trying to dance along with our 1st and 2nd graders. Love that they had a chance to lead with their fancy moves!

Still Image Gallery on Artsonia: View
a screenshot from the video

Click the image to view the gallery of stills from the video

Related idea: What if your art did a dance?

That's right! What if students made art that could move through the magic of stop motion? These little movement videos could be layered over kaleido free backgrounds and put in a collaborative dance movie too. First you would need to do the stop motion animation in front of green screen. The subject could be, for example, their cardboard whirligigs. See this post for how to make them.

Dance Whirly-bird Dance

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Rotoscope in a Retro Mutoscope

5/16/2017

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I'm super excited to have found the Flipbookit in my Twitter feed a month or so ago. The discovery came at a time where I was thinking about how to display our class animations as I was preparing for rotoscope animations lesson with my 5th graders. What a perfect solution. The flipbookit is a DIY kit that creates a retro styled mutoscope, an early motion picture hand cracked flipbook device. This box has a crank that spins a rolodex of cards that you can customize through their online tool printed on labels. It took me 1 hour to put the box together and 1/2 hr to print, stick, and load the art. They are too expensive to have each student make their own, but because of their design, they make for a really simple all class rotoscope collaborative project. I'll try to explain.

Collaborative Rotoscope

The Flipbookit animation is only 24 frames long. That is a pretty short video.
It would be best if the video loops too since the crank allows you to view it over and over again. So, I asked one 5th grader from each of the 4 classes to volunteer to be filmed performing a short dance move that would easily loop. Here they are below.

Rotoscope in a Mutoscope from Tricia Fuglestad on Vimeo.

1. Film a short looping video

I filmed them before green screen and used the Green Screen app by Do Ink to clean up the background so my animators would be undistracted by the background and better able to focus on the dancers when they draw their rotoscope.

2. Prepare the 24 frames of video

The Flipbookit website has an online maker tool that helps you prepare for a rotoscope animation. After you upload the looping video to their site, you can chose the portion you want to use, see a preview, and download the 24 frames of the video. These frames are what your students will draw over to make the rotoscope. If you have 24 students, then they each need to draw only one frame of the animation. We were able to do this in one 45 minute class period while learning the app, tools, and concept.

3. Preparing the tools to draw

Since the class is going to make one collaborative animation, we need each of the 24 frames of the video to look similar. The size of the image, color of the pen, thickness of the pen, and style of the drawing need to be similar enough that the illusion of movement is created. I set some parameters ahead of time when I created my example. Here is the handout to set up the drawing in the Brushes Redux app.

The Brushes Redux App allows you to choose a custom size canvas. You need 800 x 667. Do not resize the photo when you import it. It will be exactly 800 x 667 and needs to stay as inserted to match the other drawings.

We used a solid opaque black line size 4

The photo layer is semi transparent so we could see our black lines & we drew on the layer above. We make the photo layer disappear (close the eye icon) then save our drawing to the camera roll

Students each had an iPad, stylus, handout, and a chance to view a physical flipbook

4. Turn in and rename digital files

I shared out the flipbookit images through my dropbox. Each student was assigned a number and drew their piece of the animation based on this image. When they were done, they turned back their art into a new folder with the number and their name on the file. It automatically organized by number. I was ready to upload it to the flipbookit maker tool.

----VIEW STUDENT IMAGES HERE----

4.5 (optional) Made an animated gif

I wanted to see how the 24 drawings would look as a digital animation so I loaded them into https://ezgif.com/maker to make an animated gif from the images.

5. Print and load the flipbookit

PDF generated from the 24 frame animation made by students ready to print.

I followed the online directions for converting the 24 drawings into a pdf that would be printed onto the special sized labels that came with the DIY Flipbookit. I stuck them on the blank cards and loaded them into the rolodex to see the magic of Mutoscope animation from our collaborative rotoscope animation.

Digital animation made physical

Displaying the Mutoscopes:

Resource:

Every Night I Dream Of Dancing by Andrew Huang is a music video collaboration of thousands of drawings from 30 different artists. The song is fun and the artwork is very inspiring. It has much more color and creativity than this project, but now that we've learned the process, perhaps next time we can take it further.
Drawing from Experience
This lesson requires student to create a CONTOUR LINE DRAWING. Allow the old and wise (and very little from all the years of sharpening) Grandpa Pencil explain more.

Drawing From Experience from Tricia Fuglestad on Vimeo.

Watch this brainpop video that explains Traditional Animation (need a login)

Extension: Build a Mutoscope Viewer

A package arrived the other day in a very cool box. I was heading out to recycle it when it occurred to me that the flip top that opens to a windowed interior may make a cool viewer for my Flipbook (mutoscope). I'm not done painting the inside or customizing my own animation yet, but I thought I'd share what I started here.

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Two NextVista.org Finalists

1/15/2017

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A few times a year, NextVista.org hosts student video contests. These videos teach something learned in school, are 90 seconds (+ credits) long, and fit in one of three categories: student, collaboration, or teacher created. They are screened by a panel of judges and posted to the site. Those that score the highest points are posted as finalists. Winners are awarded after the finalists are viewed by teachers and students around the globe. We entered 4 movies this time into the contest and 2 of them were selected as finalists in two different categories. Click on the movie titles below to see them.

Soaring Creativity: Teacher Category

click to view both movies

Soaring Creativity: Collaboration Category

click to view all three movies

Our entries:

We entered a tutorial explaining the 2nd grade rotational symmetry lego design project in the teacher category. View it below and visit my post to learn more about this project.

Rotational Symmetry with Legos from Tricia Fuglestad on Vimeo.

We entered a shortened version (to meet requirements) of "How to be Kind" in the collaboration category. View the full version below and visit the post to find out how Dryden's youngest animators created the beating heart effect over their still images.

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

There were 2 other videos entered during this contest that were not chosen as finalists.
Deep Space (the remake) was given an Honorable Mention. View thefirst version here and learn about animated aliens to play instruments, beatbox, dance, and sing here.

Deep Space by Aliens from Tricia Fuglestad on Vimeo.

How to Stay Neat was also a remake by the 2nd graders of 2015-2016 school year. It was entered in the summer contest but since they had no other collaboration entries it was put into the current contest where it didn't score as high as the other entries. View the first version here and the remake below.

How to Stay Neat from Tricia Fuglestad on Vimeo.

Scoring Guidelines:

Here are thescoring guidelines that the judges use for the videos. Try going back to each category (Teacher, Student, Collaboration) and score the movies so you can guess who might win. There are "bonus points" for turning the movie in early and following the directions when the movie is turned in, so your score may be a few points off because of this unknown factors.

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International Dot Day Ideas

9/9/2016

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We've been celebrating International Dot Day in my art room for many years. I thought I put together some of our ideas and resources in one place.

Here is a link to the Dot Day Tumblebook or click on the image to the left.

Click above for the Dot Day song with lyrics

Collaborative Dots on Diffusion Paper-Click to download my step-by-step guide

Kandinsky Dots with Quilling -Click image to see post

Dot Day Collaborative Circle Painting-Click image to see post

Make a Mark on the World, Newsweek Magazine Cover-Click image to see post

Van Gogh Ahead and Make your Mark (collaborative coloring) Click to see post

Quiver partnered with Dot Day by creating an Augmented Reality experience with the Dot drawn in the center of the coloring page. Visit their site to download the standard page or check out my kindergarden dot page here.

Explore op art or radial designs using the Dot Day coloring page & the Quiver App. Click image.

Kdgrs made a color wheel from crayons on the Quiver sheet then watched it come to life

I modified the Quiver Dot Day sheet so Kdgrs can practice making a color wheel

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Van Gogh Ahead and Make your Mark

9/2/2016

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This is the mock-up of our collaborative Dot Day Collaboration

We're going to celebrate International Dot Day in the art room with a coloring collaboration. Each of these three paintings by Vincent Van Gogh have been converted into coloring pages then enlarged into oversized posters (using blockposters.com). 4th graders are going to each get a piece of the puzzle to color as we watch the videos below about Dot Day and Van Gogh's life/work. We will see how our unique mark making combines with others as we fit all the pieces together on the mural wall. There is no right or wrong, just a chance to learn about Vincent van Gogh while we color and be apart of a collaboration. So, let's VAN GOGH AHEAD AND MAKE OUR MARKS!

Bedroom at Arles

Self-Portrait

Starry Night

Coloring page-Bedroom

Coloring-portrait

Coloring page-Starry Night

PDF-Bedroom

PDF-portrait

PDF-Starry

Resources:

Click the image to view a short biography of Vincent van Gogh

Click the image to view this Dark Water Painting

Student work:

Finished student mural from our 2016 Dot Day Celebration

Click to enlarge

Blending the pieces

Watching The Dot

Coloring collaboratively

Collaborative Dot Day Mural on Display in the Hallway

#dotday16 came early as we Van Gogh Ahead & Make our Mark @peterhreynolds @helloemilyarrow https://t.co/DtGREtrBqI pic.twitter.com/C3OIYJnI9g
— Tricia Fuglestad (@fuglefun) September 7, 2016

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1 iPad + 1 free app=2 Much Fun!

1/14/2016

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Stop Motion Animation Collaboration

Attach your iPad to a tripod with an adapter (like this)
Download and start up iMotion HD (free)
Assemble all your students and think of a sequence of actions that would show movement
Set iMotion to manual (not time lapse) and capture your first image
Have students move according to your sequence and snap another picture
Repeat #5 until you finish your sequence.
Set the frames per second to your liking. We liked 10 fps which meant that 30 pictures made 3 seconds of video.
Play back your movie and export it to the camera roll
Combine this video clip with others taken from different angles, views, or positions in movie editing software.
Add music. (explore Kevin MacLeod's site =royalty free)

All class stop motion from Tricia Fuglestad on Vimeo.

This technique not only introduced my students to the concept of stop motion animation, it gave them an opportunity to see how effective a collaboration can be. The results are immediate, impressive, and motivating. Students had to be able to follow directions, cooperate, listen, and understand how their part effects the whole.

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