Artsonia
Last year I was out of the swing of things since I had to take time off tohelp my husband in his recovery from a serious injury. He and I both went back to school this year and with that came my desire to present at the National Art Education Conference in Chicago. Fortunately, my district supported the entire art team when we expressed our interest in this amazing professional development opportunity.
Image by Melissa Hayes during my portion of the Artsonia presentation
image by Tiffany at Artsonia
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​ Susan Bivona, Theresa McGee, and I each shared our unique uses of Artsonia in our presentation along with a preview of the new feature in the soon to be updated Artsonia app (you are going to love it!!!) by Jim Meyers, the CEO of Artsonia.
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iPad Animation iDeas
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I shared iPad Animation lessons at the elementary tech carousel that teach art digitally, differently, and dynamically using the DoInk apps. The company even donated some promo app codes to 8 lucky attendees. (thank you!)
image by Chris Parker
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image by Christa Perdue
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The last time I did an elementary carousel I had a cozy little group around my table for each rotation. This time it was a ridiculously large group. My 50 handouts ran out after my first two rotations so I posted them below.Use this link to my ever increasing collection of digital art lessons online to find each iPad animation idea numbered below.
Community
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I also had a unique opportunity to share my personal story of community as I accepted an award for community service to Art Education. I wrote about this experience and my speech in this previous post. Below is a slide from my short talk. It is a collage of images that represent some of the wonderful ways my community supported me and my husband during our medical crisis. The images represent the cards, donations, food, school fundraiser, art, art supplies, and the act of kindness from a third grader who asked her friends to write get well cards for Mr. Fuglestad rather than birthday cards for herself. Thank you again!
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image by AET Twitter feed
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I hope this doesn't look like bragging, but I wanted to create a visual that shows the awards I've won in my career. If you knew my story of how I struggled all my life with painful shyness and was almost fired my first year due very much to my inability to step into the role as leader in the classroom then you too would see this image as an encouragement. I started to bloom as a teacher as soon as I took a step outside of my classroom. The sunlight of community and water of encouragement helped me grow in the soil composed of students who keep me firmly grounded.
Presentations I attended
My sketchnote created in Brushes app from ideas and images throughout the event
On Friday morning I woke up at 5am to commute again into the city hoping to arrive in time to catch Janine and Cassie present on Leaving a Legacy. Their presentation was so inspiring. I was particularly touched when I saw that Janine included two slides that gave me and my students a shout out. So honored! But, I must say the whole experience was sweetened by sitting next to Cathy Hunt from Australia. I've been following her for years online and was thrilled beyond belief to finally meet her face to face.
Cassie Stephens and Janine Campbell spoke about leaving a legacy
Our Dryden Circle painting inspired by Janine's Dot Day collaboration
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Janine's slide where she shared three bloggers that inspired her
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What made the presentation more awesome was sitting next to Cathy Hunt, my Art Ed Hero
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