Tricia Fuglestad's Blog

What if it became an ARt History Wall?

9/2/2018

A former student, Ava, visited me while I was thinking about augmented reality and our Dryden Art History Tile Wile.

I was thinking, now that I attached some AR videos triggered by Miss Dietrich's art (see the blog post about this), what if I make videos of any former students willing to be attached to their art on the tile wall as well?
What if our wall became a ARt History Tile Wall?

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When Students become Colleagues

8/27/2018

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Two of my former students grew up, became teachers, and are now colleagues at Dryden. Miss Dietrich now teaches 5th grade. She was with me to make a spoof of the American Gothic in 3rd grade and a clay bear in 4th grade as well as many other pieces.

We found these two pieces on our Art History Tile Wall. The American Gothic was credited to her on the wall, but the clay bear was anonymous. I had used donations to fill in some gaps in our history with pieces that were from my files. I had a clay bear photo but didn't remember who the artist was. Now we do! Miss Dietrich agreed to bring in hers from home (sitting on her dresser all these years) for a video surprise (see below).
P. S. You can see the video surprise too with HP Reveal app following Fuglefunart next time you visit our Dryden Art History Tile Wall or use the app to view This or This.

When former students become colleagues@MissDietrich5th @MissAngelico https://t.co/ykTqqkaZ7o
Take a look at the @hpreveal surprise in our Art History Tile Wall via @artsonia #drydenrocks #d25itspersonal #k12artchat @DrydenSchool #edtech #ARVRinEDU pic.twitter.com/A2RSM5Ro8y
— Tricia Fuglestad ☕️ (@fuglefun) August 28, 2018

Miss Angelico is now teaching 1st grade. I taught her for all her years at Dryden. I went through my files (I'm a digital hoarder) and found this sweet image. Here is Miss Angelico when she was a 1st grader sitting at the same table that her 1st grade students will sit at to make art this year. I love the concentration as she paints the table cloth of her apple still life. Love everything about this photo from the cute handwriting in the bottom corner to the smudge of orange paint on her cheek. What a cool thing for me to see my little student all grown up with her own little students. How cool for the new batch of 1st graders to see their grown up teacher as a little girl just like them ?.

Showed @MissAngelico 's 1st grade students a photo I took of their teacher back when she was a 1st grader in my art room just like them □
Love the smudge of paint on her face-what a little artist! □#drydenrocks #d25itspersonal pic.twitter.com/qEOxeoiYhf
— Tricia Fuglestad ☕️ (@fuglefun) August 22, 2018

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Redefining the Art Room

4/15/2018

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My transdigital approach to art education merges both traditional and digital methods across physical and digital spaces while giving students an opportunity to dive into ideas that were previously beyond what I could otherwise offer. Take a peek at the lessons I designed to help redefine learning for my elementary art students.

Redefining the Art Room from Tricia Fuglestad on Vimeo.

Links to Lessons Showcased in Video:

Animating Ourselves with Stop Motion
Carousel Horse Paintings that students rode and animated digitally
Black History Lego Mural (in my background as I spoke)
Rotoscope in a Retro Mutoscope using digital art and Flipbookits
Keith Haring Paintings and Stop Motion Animation
Penguin Clay Sculptures and Stop Motion Animations
Bedroom at Arl(ington Heights) based on Van Gogh's Art
Green Screen FX: Spin, Jump, Fall into/out of Art
Haunted Custom Holograms: flipbook animation, rotation, and prism
Animated Glow drawn profile view and animated aliens
Make it Then Move it Patterned Figure Animations
Color Mixing Scientists Bubble Animations
Magic Carpets over Landmarks of the US art, green screen video & stop motion
Progression Animation of snowmen in stages interacting with animator's hand
Don't Crush My Dreams Student-Created Art-Related Fugleflick
Try Your Best, Fugleflick about Growth Mindset
Strange Magic Paper Cut stop motion animation
Creating Media for Learning, contributed to book, AR of Fuglelflick
Allow Us to Illustrate, Fugleflick about visual literacy and the role of illustration
View our award-winning Fugleflicks and those screened at film festivals
View all 225+ STEAM art Lessons from this one link

Click image to view over 225 STEAM ART Lessons

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Sophie's iPad Animation Party

4/10/2017

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Five young animators met with me on Monday after school for one hour to learn to fly. Second grader, Sophie, won the iPad animation party prize offered through the Dryden Fundraising Raffle before spring break. She and 4 friends learned how to turn themselves into fairies that fly across the flower garden using 3 different apps on our art room iPads.

Animators getting ready to turn themselves into fairies

Posing for photo before green screen

Saved as PNG in superimpose app

Fairy-ified in brushes app saved as png

UsedBrushes app to add a background layer for wings and foreground layer for skirt and wand

We layered a garden photo in the background and our fairy image in the foreground in Do Ink Animation app (composition mode). Then drew out an animation path and save the movie.

Sophie's iPad Party from Tricia Fuglestad on Vimeo.

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STEAM interview on Art Ed Radio

3/29/2017

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Click the image to listen to our 20 minute interview or read the transcript

Andrew McCormick, one of the hosts of the Art of Ed Radio program, interviewed me on how we incorporate STEAM (science, technology, engineering, art, and math) into our art program at Dryden Elementary. We chatted for about 20 minutes.
Listen here or read the transcript

overview of the podcast interview

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Our White House Film Festival Entry

1/19/2014

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We are so excited to announce that our fifth grade Dryden artists are entering the
White House Film Festival! We have been working on this video since early December when we first learned of this opportunity. The video shows how our fifth graders have been using technology for art production and art instruction in our classroom from kindergarten through present. We were able to base the video on the presentation that a group of them gave while in 4th grade to pre-service art teachers in Montreal, Canada via Skype. View that event here. We had 29 students volunteer to work on this video during their lunch recesses. They were each assigned a segment with a rhyming verse to memorize. The segments were customized to each actor as much as possible showing video or stills of them or their artwork. Every segment was exported as a video clip and brought into the iPad to use as the background image in the DoInk Green Screen app. They stood before our classroom green screen and recorded their portion while the app magically replaced the green with their custom backgrounds. We learned quickly not to wear green on recording day. We also tried to adhere to the guidelines of the film festival and not show any 3rd party images or logos. Wearing a smock was the logical solution to cover them up. We had the whole film finished a week before winter break. When we went to edit it we realized that the audio was very poor. Our iPad microphone wasn't able to capture audio well enough to use the clips. The audio was so low that there was absolutely nothing my software could do to fix it. I tried all the tricks I knew. So I bought a microphone adaptor for the iPad so we could use the lapel mic that the art room already owned and filmed it all over again. This was a lesson in trying our best, being persistent, and having a good attitude. Our fifth graders passed this test with flying colors. See our video below.

Technology in Dryden's Art Class from Tricia Fuglestad on Vimeo.

We used our newest form of movie-making to create this video. In the fall we were asked to helpBeta Test the new Green Screen app from DoInk. The app automatically creates a chroma key effect in the iPad. This app allowed us to show in the background of each segment the technology tools or techniques the students were describing. We uploaded all our background segments to the dropbox and pulled them into the camera roll as needed. Then imported them to the app. It's an extremely easy app to use and creates such immediately magical results. The only issue was our audio. Below you can compare the audio without the external microphone and with the use of the external microphone. I could raise the volume of the later without static or distortion.

Original recording without external mic.

Second recording with external mic.

@fuglefun brilliant use of green screen, editing and design. Excellent audio as well. http://t.co/Q8JwfHwDP6
— Brad Wright (@Veescope) January 19, 2014

@fuglefun Truly inspiring work. Your students are AMAZING!!! Well done!
— Rushell Kwong (@Rush4theArts) January 19, 2014

@fuglefun @whitehouse @doinktweets @drydenschool Beautiful work & well-done! Please let your students know I love their video!
— Colleen Rose (@ColleenKR) January 19, 2014

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Thank You Daily Herald

4/8/2013

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A Daily Herald reporter and photographer spent some time in my art room last week putting this story together celebrating our art program at Dryden. Thank you for recognizing the value of art education in our schools!

Read the story and see the photos here.
View the video below.

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Describing what we do in 2 mins or less

11/24/2012

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How do you describe 20 years of teaching, a couple thousand students, and hundreds of lessons in 2 minutes or less? Not sure. Below is my attempt. I'm blinded by what it omits, but hopefully it includes enough to give you a quick view of what we do here at Dryden.

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Intel Teach Live Webinar

9/24/2012

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Mark your calendars for Tuesday, Sept. 25th 7pm Central Time and join me and other special areas teacher in Music, PE and Art in this month's Intel Teach Live Webinar
Electives Go High Tech To Meet 21st Century Learning

REGISTER for the event
Join us in THIS ROOM
Follow on THIS THREAD

I will be sharing how we use technology for art instruction and art production in Dryden's Art Room. Please join us for this free online event.

You can listen to the FULL presentation online here.

**UPDATE: I did get through my presentation, but my slides kept crashing so it took three attempts. So sorry for the mess that made:) I posted my resources on the thread: http://engage.intel.com/message/93156.

@fuglefun thanks u get a prize 4 patience. Enjoyed webinar
— taggarteacher (@taggarteacher) September 26, 2012

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Presenting on Dryden's Art Program

6/26/2012

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I was invited to Keynote at the USSEA conference in Indianapolis, IN.
I was surrounded with some of the greatest minds in Art Education: (Enid Zimmerman, Marjorie Manifold, Elizabeth Delacruz, Juan Carlos Castro) Professors of preservice Art Educators, Doctoral students, Researchers, innovators, thinkers, and ...then me?!?

I was distracted by the flow of polysyllabic words during the presentations but loved the challenge to dust off the cobwebs a bit and join in the conversations. I'm on the front lines as a K-5 art educator putting theory into practice amongst the constraints of curriculum, schedules, resources, management, and time.
What I had to share was my technology rich and connected classroom at Dryden.
I shared my stories of how my students have had authentic audiences because of our connectedness.
My students have made literature inspired art projects and then connected with their authors online.
My students have made art that was shown on websites, textbooks, 30ft LED screens in NYC, on TV, and shown in children's museums around the country.
My students have made Fugleflicks (student-created, art-related videos) that have screened at local, national, and international venues.
My students have connected with app developers as they use their apps on ipads.
My students have won recognition for their artwork in state and national exhibits.
My students continue to wow me with their high levels of motivation, effort, and achievement.
My students have taught me to TRY MY BEST as an art teacher.