Tricia Fuglestad's Blog

Draw a Self-Portrait (Pre-K-2nd grade)

3/19/2022

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Self-Portrait Resources to Learn & Play

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4th Grade Monochromatic Portraits

2/8/2018

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Finished Paintings Gallery

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Back to School

8/27/2015

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First day back teaching after a year off.

We're Back!

I'm back to teaching after a year off to help my husband recover from an terrible accident. I can't wait to create with my Dryden Artists. Mr.Fuglestad is also returning to his classroom at BGHS to teach from his wheelchair until he doesn't need it any longer. YEAH!

I'm so excited to share that my art room had some technology additions and changes:

My old interactive whiteboard (circa 2006) doesn't work anymore, but I installed an IPEVO Interactive Whiteboard right over it. We tested it out on day one and it works great!
My art room is starting the school out with enough iPads for every student! This was a process that took a couple years of grant writing, contest winning, and fundraising. Learn more here. They are now covered in new cases thanks to the PTA and Donor's Choose. See more here.
I finally unpacked and assembled my iPad photography stations. These iPad document cameras are the perfect size to securely and easily help students take great photos of their work as they upload them to Artsonia, our online art gallery.

New iPevo Interactive Board

1:1 iPads with new Cases!

iPad Art Photo station

Mr. Fuglestad's journey back to teaching was very long but all the while he was surrounded by the love and support of his students, colleagues, family, neighbors, and friends. They gave him a very warm welcome at the first day assembly at BGHS high school where he teaches science. Take a peek at this video below.

Principal Wecomes Fuglestad Back (2015-8-26) from Tricia Fuglestad on Vimeo.

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The Giving Tree

5/15/2014

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My second graders were introduced to a lovely story called, The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein as they began creating tree silhouettes. I first heard the story in college when my roommate Beth, an elementary education major, practiced reading to me. She chose some amazing stories that will forever be my favorites. What made this even more special was when my friend, Suzanne Tiedemann recorded the chorus of the Giving Tree Song. Listen here or below.

listen to ‘The Giving Tree Chorus’ on Audioboo

Way back I created a movie from the book. I colored each page digitally and recorded my voice reading the story to share with my students. Viewthe movie here or below.

I was recently reminded of this story when I saw the tree stumps in my neighborhood. The emerald ash borer destroyed a whole block of ash trees. The stump in this book would still be happy as long as it could be of use.

See the photo of the cut down trees here.

Before we started drawing students each had a turn at the interactive board to trace a "V" in the tree. This helped us make sense of the tree's design as we began to create.

Tracing "v"s in trees as we prepare to draw https://t.co/Sl5jkzOpTc
— Tricia Fuglestad (@fuglefun) May 13, 2014

My students fell in LOVE with the song that Ms. Tiedemann shared (see above). So, they asked me to put the words on the board so they could sing while they draw their giving trees. They called it an "emotional" song that brought more meaning to their art.

The giving tree from Tricia Fuglestad on Vimeo.

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Portable Interactivity with IPEVO

9/19/2013

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I had a chance to play with the iPevo Interactive Whiteboard ($149) system today. Our school uses the Mimio system which costs around $600-$1000 depending on the model and accessories. The iPevo does everything the Mimio does accept it does some things better! The stylus has an extension (bonus) and a button to click that advances my slides. Here is the biggest bonus: It's small, lightweight, and portable. Look at how all the pieces fit into a pencil case. Oh did I forget to mention the price difference?

I tested the system on the cinderblock wall

With the driver installed this is all you need

Everything fits into a small pencil case

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Interactive Boards, Games, and iPevo

11/29/2012

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Many art rooms have document cameras and interactive boards. But not many art rooms can use them both at the same time. Most fancy expensive document cameras connect to your projector on a separate stream from the interactive board which is mirroring your computer. So you have to switch sources from one to the other. However, when you use a usb document camera, like iPEVO's, your can use them both together. This has been extremely helpful in my art room. I was using it all day today with a collage project. Below you can see that I wanted to teach the students to draw half of a vase on the folded side of their paper. I was able to freeze the image and draw over it, label it with digital ink, and draw without really drawing so I could demonstrate what to do and what not to do as well as any other helpful information alongside (see the second image below).

MimioConnect is an online community of teachers generating and sharing interactive resources created in Mimio. This software is available for free for both Mac and PC.
When my Art Education PLN began discussing spinner games for the classroom, I immediately thought of Mimio software. Instead of spending lots of money, you can make it for free, change it with a few clicks, add music, and store it all digitally.

@tiedemania @fuglefun @greeneyegal The real wheels: spinningdesigns.com/standard.html
— Holly Bess (@ArtLadyHBK) November 29, 2012

I logged into my MimioConnect account and found this spinner, downloaded it, customized it in a few minutes and now it's ready to use. Download my version here.

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Today's Art Room Tweets

9/12/2012

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I love using this #fugleflick to introduce #whatisart to my #artsed kdgrs vimeo.com/16278783
— Tricia Fuglestad (@fuglefun) September 12, 2012

Using @ipevo pict and interactive whiteboard to practice our self portraits in 3rd grade #artsed twitter.com/fuglefun/statu…
— Tricia Fuglestad (@fuglefun) September 12, 2012

Kdgrs had fun mixing colors in #art #artsed with real paint and digital paint yfrog.us/jm792eukkkifzj…
— Tricia Fuglestad (@fuglefun) September 12, 2012

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Making an Interactive Game in Mimio

8/30/2012

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We LOVE our interactive board in the art room. It gets used everyday in almost every class period in so many different ways. I started collecting ideas a while back for how we use our IWB and began a wiki to share some of our lessons. I love to use Mimio Studio software for building interactive games since they offer a free download of the software, a community site to share files, and PC and MAC users are all welcome. I use mimio on a polyvision board. It doesn't matter what the IWB brand is since the software running on my computer creates the interactivity experience.

As I was preparing to teach this collage lesson to my 4th graders based on Pablo Picasso's Old Guitarist, I thought that a scramble/reassemble activity would be a fun way to encourage students to study the image. This could be done a number of ways, but I thought I'd try to make it digitally in Mimio Studio.
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In the tutorial below you can see how to play the puzzle with varying levels of difficulty and how to make one yourself using keynote and preview (on a Mac) along with Mimio Studio. All this has been added to my Art is Interactive Wiki here.

Old Guitar Puzzle and Tutorial from Tricia Fuglestad on Vimeo.

Playing our new #artsed @mimiotechnology puzzle game on the IWB -download it from my Fugleblog twitter.com/fuglefun/statu…
— Tricia Fuglestad (@fuglefun) September 4, 2012

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Digital Resources for Classroom Management

7/15/2012

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Animation made using Keynote

This is the time of year where I reflect on what worked and what I would like to do differently in my classroom. Classroom management is one of the biggest issues for any teacher, but I think even more so for Arts Educators who service the entire school population. I have over 500 students in and out of my art room all week long. Our time is limited yet I want to make it rich and meaningful. So, strategies that prevent disruptions and encourage good listening, following directions, and make clean up run smoothly are very important.

Here is a list of some of my resources:

Push up your Sleeves- (39 second video) Students made this Fugleflick to visually demonstrate how you should enter the art room. Sometimes I run it in quicktime and set it to loop. I hold an sign in my hand that says, "Do what the video says".
The Pencil Exchange- (40 second video) This video is like a commercial for how the pencil exchange works. It saves me from explaining it to every class at the beginning of the school year. I show it once to every group. They all completely understand how it works after this viewing and I rarely have to say a thing more all year long.
The Scoreboard- (digital file) I use this image and run it through BlockPosters.com to enlarge it to the size of my bulletin board. This scoreboard keeps track of behavior for each class all school year long. Every group gets 4 points per class: 1 pt for Listening, 1pt for Showing Respect, 1pt for Being Polite, 1pt for clean up. We work our way to a "star" to receive a prize (Shhhh! I'll let you in on a secret. The prize is usually a smiley faced eraser cap and a lesson on being kind to your erasers).
Clean Up Digital Organizer- (for Interactive Whiteboard) This digital file was made in mimio studio which you can download for free for PC or Macs. I use this to organize clean up when students know what "number" they are. I put a number on their seats, but you can have them pick numbers from popsicle sticks, or something similar. Watch this screen cast video to learn how I use it. Find more of my interactive mimio resources to download along with screen cast demonstrations on my Art is Interactive Wiki.

Do you have some digital resources for classroom management that you would like to share?
Please chime in.
Animation made with Gif+ app

Here is one video I made a few summers back as a result of my reflections on the school year. It's called the LISTEN PLEA. It is literally a song and dance routine that teaches the specific components of good listening (there are four-quiz students afterwards). I have used it from time to time as a refresher for my students when they stop listening to me. They seem to want to listen to my video though-go figure!?

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Interactive Tools are Transforming how Students Learn

11/17/2011

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How we learn in the art room is expanding as our digital tools grow. Take a look below at how students can now explore the concept of contour line drawing with the interactive whiteboard and the iPads.

Mirroring the iPad wirelessly with Apple TV not only makes teaching on the iPads easier, but it also shows my students everything in the Brushes App which makes teaching art projects in the Brushes App possible.. Brushes only selectively projects through VGA. The tools and layers do not show making it much harder to teach art making.

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