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:
Third graders turned shapes (circle, triangle, and rectangle) into forms (sphere, cone, and cylinder). Then made these forms look like vessels used for scientific experiments (florence flask, erlenmeyer flask, and beaker).
Student Gallery on ArtsoniaFugleflick Resources for art concepts:
Our Fugleflick, Deep Space, contains forms with foreground, middle ground, and background with overlapping,
Deep Space from Tricia Fuglestad on Vimeo.
Our Fugleflick, Bye Bye Road, is a fun sing along to a Beatles' tune about things to look for in an image that shows depth including a vanishing point, converging lines, and relative sizes.
Bye Bye Road from Tricia Fuglestad on Vimeo.
Our Fugleflick, Complementary in Every Way, introduces the color wheel including primary, secondary, and complementary colors.
Digital extension: Animating Bubbles
Students will animate bubbles coming from the scientists' vessels .
Tutorial: How to animate the bubblesBubbles Animation from Tricia Fuglestad on Vimeo. Finished Animations: all in one movieMy Presentations: iPad Animation iDeas that Teach Concepts Dynamically See this blog post dedicated to this presentation including a thinglink (also below) with links to each project featured. Use this link to view all STEAM art lessons. Owning the Learning with Fugleflicks Find all the movies featured in this presentation on my Fugleflicks page. Or download the Fugleflick Scan Book to share them with your students independently Below is a PDF of each slide of my presentation. Things I learned or want to learn...
Update: I made a plan for how I'm going to paint my Ukulele when it arrives. I was really inspired by the project Megan Idell presented inspired by street artist, INSA who made Gif-iti art coupled with augmented reality. See some examples.
STEAM PlaygroundI demonstrated how to make a custom animated hologram. Here are my resources. I had a chance to explore Susan Tiemstra's station with CreoPop 3D Pens. I took pictures of the creations people left behind. She said it is non-toxic heated ink cured with LEDs. I practiced glitch art after talking it over with Justin Bickus at bit. He had a great suggestion. Take one file and open it in Text Edit and then open it again in Preview. This way when you change the code you can see the changes refresh in the photo. Two Award Winners:My former student teacher Matthew Etherington (who helped design this amazing lesson) won the IAEA Young Professional Award and my student Jessica was one of 40 artists honored for her artwork that was chosen for the year-long traveling IAEA Student Art Show. Find out more here.
![]() A group of young engineers, computer programers, and artists gathered in the art room during lunch recesses for a couple months to see what they could make using a Hyperduino, old computer, some cardboard, LEDs, touch pads, and creativity. The results of the collaboration is called a Fugleflick Art Bot. It is an interactive art piece that plays 5 different student-created, art-related movies when you touch a button on the computer screen in its belly with audio coming through the speaker (mouth). The lights are on a circuit made from copper wire and batteries connected to two LED lights behind 3-D glasses. The switch is built into the nose. Below is a series of photos taken during the creation process. Since we were making discoveries, problem-solving, and working with limited resources, our design changed as we progressed. You'll see the original sketch was for an iPad in the robot belly but then we learned that the hyperduino needed to run in a browser. So, we adapted. The group also changed as we added artists after the engineers wired up the robot. They helped make the robot have a unified design with balanced colors with a brass brad motif. InterviewWe created a youtube playlist for the Fugleflick bot. You can explore the five Fugleflick movies that it is programed to play here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLS4LIonCAPBfr0enREOu6HH9BQPf6JaGf
Explore all our Fugleflicks here. ![]() This 2nd grade lesson introduces students to the artwork of Keith Haring. He made colorful painting with figures in action poses. I use this artwork to teach very basic figure drawing, complementary colors, primaries and secondary colors, action/ movement, positive/negative space, line pattern, and shape pattern. We begin by drawing poses using the help of a template students cut out and assemble by themselves. This template allows them to play with poses then trace the ones they like. Download the template. Student Work: see gallery hereWhen students finished their paintings, they looked at them through 3-D glasses to see if the complementary colors made the actions poses even more vibrant. Finished stop motion animations:2-2 Stop Motion from Tricia Fuglestad on Vimeo. 2-3 stop motion from Tricia Fuglestad on Vimeo. MA2 Stop Motion from Tricia Fuglestad on Vimeo. The fifth graders from 5-1 used the second graders' step up one day and made this: 5-1 Stop Motion from Tricia Fuglestad on Vimeo.
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Digital Extension: Create it digitally
Digital Warm Up Drawing:
Digital Extension: Make and MoveStudents can use the template over a piece of construction paper and animate the figure against a complementary color background to demonstrate movement dynamically. I use the free app iMotion HD and have student make a short video. 30 images makes a 2 second video at 15 frames per second. I collect the individual videos for one class video. Tutorial: Make it Move it Figures
NextVista.org hosts an online video contest for students. They give feedback to filmmakers, have a panel of judges, and encourage students to view their movies around the country. Each video entry teaches a school related concept or lesson in 90 seconds or less. Many of ourFugleflicks have qualified for this contest so we've entered it often.
Last Spring we entered LEARN TO FLY in the teacher made category and MOVEMENT in the collaboration category into their Creative Sprouts contest and WON BOTH! ​ Congratulations to all the students who helped make these fun and informative videos. Learn to Fly from Tricia Fuglestad on Vimeo. Movement from Tricia Fuglestad on Vimeo. ![]()
We just learned that our Fugleflick, MOVEMENT, created by a group of 16 fifth graders in Spring of 2016 was selected from 1000 entries to screen at the Chicago International Children's Film Festival this year! (See the full list of films that will screen from professional filmmakers and students). Admission into this festival is fiercely competitive so we are SO excited to be selected. The audience for the festival is global. People fly in from around the world to attend. This is going to be the sixth Fugleflick to ever screen in at CICFF. See this post from 2012 to view a short slideshow of what the event looked like for our filmmakers. Visit this page to see our others.
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MOVEMENT is a short fugleflick, student-created, art related movie, made by 5th graders to show students many ways they can add movement, a principal of design, into their art work.
Students used creative green screen techniques highlighted in this post. This movie already debuted at a local film festival. View photos and article here. Movement from Tricia Fuglestad on Vimeo. Update:
Movement at CICFF from Tricia Fuglestad on Vimeo. ![]()
(In January a group of 16 fifth graders volunteered their lunch recesses to work on a Fugleflick movie that would teach viewers how to show movement in art. The process included recording an original song, drawing out a storyboard of every scene, dreaming up video effects to help tell their story, all kinds of animation, and lots of layered green screen effects. View this post to see how they did some of their amazing special effects. The group used teamwork to accomplish this movie each finding a way to contribute from prop directors to wrinkle fixers to behind the scenes photographer to audio manager to dropbox uploader to camera person to choreographer. This two minute movie took nearly two months to complete but, perhaps making produced memories and lessons that will last a lifetime. Enjoy the fuglefick! (password:dolphin)
Movement from Tricia Fuglestad on Vimeo.
Fugleflick filmmakers are currently working on a movie about movement in art. As they worked on the storyboard they decided to create a movie that had many special effects. For example they said they wanted a thought bubble to appear over video with video inside it with white in the background of the bubble. When we looked at the Green Screen app by DoInk we found it could do everything we needed to create the effect. This animation was made by importing the video into a DoInk animation app, following the movement of their hands with lines from frame to frame, then matching up the drawn animation and the green screen video (with chroma filter applied over a white background) in the Green Screen app by DoInk. The key to making this work is that you can use a "shared folder" between the two apps so that you can maintain your transparency around your drawing as you layer your work. I'm amazed at the results and the problem-solving my 5th graders undergo as they invent these video effects. Since our fugleflick is about showing movement on a 2D plane, the above animation was a must for our story. The 5th grade filmmakers animated a still image using the doInk animation app over an image of paper. Then drew motion lines following the movement over the video in the same app. This video was then added to a background image of paper on a table using the Green Screen App by doInk. Yes, that was a lot of steps, but figuring out how to make magic happen is part of effective storytelling. This video effect required tons of planning and imagination. There is actually more to it in the real movie than what you see here. It began with filming the dance and capturing a still moment from the very beginning. Then, the freeze frame was drawn frame by frame and saved as a movie using the DoInk Animation app. This was all piece together in layers using the green screen app by doInk. This 10sec effect took about an hour of planning and work. UPDATE: View the finished Movie!
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We are the 2nd place winner of the ISTE Technology in Action Video Contest.
See my post for more info. Redefining the Art Room from Tricia Fuglestad on Vimeo. ![]() ![]() Dryden Art 2013-14 from Tricia Fuglestad on Vimeo. ![]() ![]() View this musical tribute to the hard working teachers at Dryden and the students they love to teach.
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