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Packaging Up My Lessons

9/1/2021

Here is me (above) with my mind exploding! I have hundreds of lessons that I've created from scratch over my decades of teaching. Teachers have been asking me how I do this or that for years. The answers are scattered around on my blog, social media, and in my presentations. It's time to package up my lessons and share them completely and neatly. Please fill out this quick form (or the button below) if you want to be kept posted.

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Transdigital Display

4/22/2018

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The flipbookits were attached to illustration board with brass fasteners. Then I printed and loaded the flipbook cards into the boxes.

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Monochromatic Fish

1/17/2018

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First graders are learning the parts of fish as they designed their own. Then they randomly chose a monochromatic color to paint it. Students mixed to make tints and shades to add contrast to their fish. When the paint was dry, students traced the fish and added scales as visual texture. See the GALLERY of finished monochromatic fish here.

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Practicing Rotoscoping

9/21/2017

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Last year my fifth graders made collaborative rotoscope animations that we put into flipbookit.com mutoscopes. It was pretty amazing to see digital art become physical through this fun viewer. See the post with all the how tos here. Below is the display I set up this school year showcasing their flipbookits. I used this display to introduce the concept to my 4th graders.

Click to view this Collaborative Flipbookit Rotoscope Animation Lesson

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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.

Click to download the detailed packaged lesson with tutorials, handouts, and examples for this Collaborative Rotoscope Animation project

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About Me

Tricia Fuglestad, NBCT,
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.