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My Garden Veggie Tales

7/27/2018

It's dinner time and the garden vegetables are getting nervous.

This was made in the Do Ink Animation app over my photo.

My Notes

Here is my animated sketchnote from #ice18 conference day. I don't think it communicates very well to others what I was learning, but it helps me remember what I felt was important from each session I attended.

The keynote panel discussion on equality made me think about students who go home without access to tech or wifi. Equality isn't always equal. Some people need more to get up to speed than others.
I went to a session on innovation from Barrington School District 220 and learned about their One to World program and their entrepreneurial business program.
I attended Ken Shelton's digital literacy program. I took note of movies having establishing shots & foreshadowing. He talked about using images to practice decoding and looking for clues as to the what, where, and how to spur creative writing.
I attended Rushton Hurley's session on great staff meetings. He talked about school leaders using staff meetings as a time to spread encouragement, celebrate accomplishments, and look for inspiration. Other stuff can be sent via email. One story referred to a staff that loved their meetings because their principal shared great videos in an interactive way. They called it the Bob Show and tried to get there early for a good seat.
I attended Steve Dembo's session on the YouTube generation. He played many examples of educational content videos that held to a structure or framework that helped students succeed. He shared that sometimes you should just let kids create and share...don't worry about edits. Leave the raw video so you can see the real stuff happening in your classroom. It was interesting and freeing to to hear Steve give me permission to let loose. It turned out that I went to two movie-making sessions. One share the Do's and the other shared the Don't Worrys. They made a great balance in my brain.

How I animated my Sketchnote

First I drew/doodled all day long using the Brushes App. I made two layers. One for my black lines/words and one underneath for coloring. Then saved to photos.
Next, I imported the photo into a layer in the Do Ink Drawing and Animation App. I drew animations over it using the flipbook technique. I drew, added a frame, drew some more. I made ten frames. I kept going back and adding more to my picture until I liked what the animation added to the drawing.
I merged the photo and animation in the composition mode of Do Ink. This is where I can adjust the timing to slow it down. Then save to gallery and share to video.
Bonus: I turned the video into an animated GIF using ezgif.com -works on an ipad.

Click to enlarge: Drawing mode

Click to enlarge: Composition mode

My presentation:

I presented a session called Animate your Lessons to Dynamically Demonstrate Learning. I shared dozens of ways teachers could use animation techniques with their students to integrate technology, art, and any subject to energize and engage their students. All of my lessons are found at one link that point back to my blog post with how to's, tutorials, resources, and student examples. Explore all 226+ here:

MY ART STEAM LESSONS

Mouse over the Thinglink images to find the direct links to resources for lessons.

Feedback

Cool stop motion ideas I want to try in the Learning Lab this spring! @D60HolmesLib @fuglefun #d60learns #ICE18 @DoInkTweets pic.twitter.com/jGruN15Xir
— Mrs. Blake (@D60HolmesTech) February 28, 2018

I wasn't sure as a coach (and terrible artist) if this was the right session for me...@fuglefun YOU ARE A GENIUS. I am blown away & INSPIRED. People...if you missed this session...get her resources! AMAZING.

Can I be in your class??? #ICE18
— Kelli (@kelliupgraded) February 28, 2018

We don’t want to teach kids to consume, we want them to be the creators. Love all of these ideas @fuglefun #ICE18 #innovate135 pic.twitter.com/w7XoWTtU9t
— Michelle Thorne (@iTeacher5th) February 28, 2018

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Swapping Animations and other tricks

1/24/2018

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The Do Ink Animation app allows you to save files in their original format, export animations as movies, or create stills from the movies. If you save them in the original format you can only view them by pulling the file into the app. But this also means you can SWAP your animations from one iPad to another so you can layer effects or try this cool trick. What you're seeing below is one animation shared out with two other iPads. I change the animation path on each one and set the timing to make it look like the sprite is flying from one screen to the next.

Click me to download the Data DoInk File

Make an animation. Mine was like this.
Use the share button to save as Data (DOINK) You can practice using my sprite file here
Copy it to the Dropbox (or Google Drive)
Open Dropbox on a different iPad
Find the file, choose "...", choose EXPORT
Choose "Open in..."
Select Copy to Animation App (Do Ink)
I did this in a third iPad as well.
My animation was playing over a color background. So I made a still image of the color and used it to help fill up my time so the screen will look blank while it waits for the other iPad to play the animation.
iPad 1: The first 3 seconds were my animation then I used my blank color image to fill up 6 more seconds. My movie was a total of 9 seconds long.
iPad 2: I used my blank color image for the first 3 seconds, my animation ran for the next 3 seconds, and my color blank filled the last 3 seconds. My total animation was 9 seconds.
iPad 3: I used my blank color image for the first 6 seconds and my animation filled the last 3 seconds for a total of 9 second movie.
Then, I asked for help and we hit play on all three iPads at the exact same time.

Swap for storytelling and collaborations

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Haunted Masterpieces w/ Green Screen

6/30/2017

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Download my detailed lesson

Click to download all my resources for The Scream

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Process Animations

11/21/2016

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Some iPad drawing apps like Procreate and Brushes allow you to record the drawing process as a movie. (Hint: Brushes doesn't allow you to export the file but, you can record the movie as it plays from your iPad through your computer using airserver, quicktime, or reflector apps.) This gives the artist a chance to show the creative process and enhance the viewing experience with music and/or narration for digital storytelling. The following images are scenes from my Snow Flurry Fairy story. Below each image is a process animation where you can hear a snippet of the story as you watch the drawing.

Similar idea: discuss your sketchnotes

I attended a workshop in Washington D.C. on educating students to become innovators. I made sketchnotes in the Brushes app of the ideas shared in our discussions and narrated my notes as the drawing process video plays. When they asked for feedback from the event, I sent them a link to this video.

Educate to Innovate Reflection from Tricia Fuglestad on Vimeo.

Similar idea: time lapse video of art-making

Another way to record the drawing process is through time lapse video of a physical drawing. iMotion HD is a free iPad app that I use for time lapse and stop motion animation. These Artist Trading Cards were drawn and captured with time lapse then animated and set to music to help tell the story.

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Movement Fugleflick

3/10/2016

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(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.

Movement will be screened at the
Screen Test Jr,
April 16th.
Learn more here.

Update:

View this post about the film festival.

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Photobombing Edward Hopper Paintings

3/26/2014

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Photobombing is the act of inserting oneself into the field of view of a photograph, often in order to play a practical joke on the photographer [painter for our purposes] or the subjects. 

I was playing with the Superimpose app and looking for images to collage when I came across Automat by Edward Hopper. His work is full of open spaces with figures in quiet or isolated poses. Many of his pieces are perfect for practicing digital collages where students can explore overlapping, relative size, middle ground, and adjusting color filters to match the environment. I practiced these images below (click to view them large) with student photos from a previous assignment. The story changes when I added the photo. These would make interesting creative writing prompts as well. Here is my curated collection of images by Edward Hopper that will be perfect for students to photobomb.
Related post: Hopping into Hopper

Violinist in Chop Suey

Clerk at the Hotel Lobby

Visitor in Compartment C Car 293

Sunlight on Brownstones with a cup of tea

Saxophone at Seven AM

Crossing the Four Lane Road

Family in Room in New York

March Madness at the Office

Out of her Chair in the Chair Car

Strange Thing at the Automat

Girl in First Row Orchestra

Soccer Mom at Western Motel

Grading Papers in the City

Chilly at the Hotel Window

Modeling at the New York Office

How to Photobomb an Edward Hopper Painting from Tricia Fuglestad on Vimeo.

Choose the Edward Hopper image you want to photobomb and load it to your camera roll using the "magic touch" (click/hold/chose save image).
Pose in front of green screen as if you are in the painting consider the direction you face, expression, body language. Be sure that you are choosing a MIDDLE GROUND area where there will be some kind of overlapping.
Partner takes your photo in the camera app on your iPad.
Open the Superimpose app & import the Edward Hopper image as the background layer
Import your pose as foreground layer
Use the magic wand to eliminate the green screen.
Touch up with the paint brush to erase more and the eraser tool to bring back what you lost. Remember to resize the tools to your needs & zoom into the photo to get the details.
Transform the photo of you to the best size & move it to a place in the middle ground. There should be overlapping.
In the transform mode, slide the transparency up until you can see exactly what needs to be erased to create the illusion of overlapping.
Select the mask button & use the paintbrush to erase for overlapping.
Restore opacity to your photo & see if you need any touch ups.
Explore contrast, hues, and brightness to make your photo blend into painting.
Save to the camera roll & turn in
Scan the QR code, and upload to Artsonia. Follow on screen directions for adding title and artist statement.

Click here to this free app from the Metropolitan Art Museum would be a wonderful introductory lesson. It shows manipulated photographs from the days before Photoshop. You can take a quiz, learn why they were manipulated, and browse the collection. Use this link to grab the app.

See this commercial from American Family where hopeful actors photobomb Edward Hopper's NightHawks (owned by the Art Institute of Chicago).

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Received Two ABC/25 Grants

12/20/2013

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YEAH! We are TWO IPADS CLOSER now to our 1:1 iPad Art Room DREAM thanks to receiving the "Can't Wait to Curate" ABC/25 grant. (View my grant below)

…and YEAH again because we now can have a class set of MINI GREEN SCREEN STUDIOS in the art room with our "Green Screen Storytelling Studio" grant.
We will be purchasing 6 iPevo table top perches and the Green Screen App from DOINK.

This is such exciting news for our art students at Dryden. We LOVE working on iPads and now we will be able to make collaborative green screen movies on our iPads. We are getting closer to reaching our goal of a 1: 1 iPad classroom.
With our two iPads from this grant our total is now 19 and 1/2. We have only a few more days to turn that 1/2 into a whole through our Edbacker.com campaign. Please consider donating! Thanks. Donate here (it's tax deductible).

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Multi-disciplinary Spooky Landscapes

11/12/2013

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Painting: Now that second graders have all completed their Spooky Landscapes we are going to try something we have never tried before. This is going to be TRANSFORMATIONAL because of our art room iPads. (Which we wish we had more of-you can help here).

Animating: We are going to take turns animating a semi-transparent ghost using the DOINK app over the digital version of our finished art. View the gallery of finished art on Artsonia here.

Composing: In preparation for our spooky class animation we experimented with NODE BEAT to make a collaborative spooky song. Listen to it here or below.

listen to ‘Spooky Collaborative music from Nodebeat’ on Audioboo

Writing: Students had a chance to use the iPads to write an artist statement about their Spooky Landscapes to help share a bit about what they learned while creating this piece.
We used the Artsonia classroom mode to scan a QR code that lead students directly to the page where they could find their art and write their thoughts.
We had to take turns doing this because we don't have enough iPads for everyone to work at once. But you can help us here.

Poetry: Our spooky tree was inspired by this SPOOK TREE poem created collaboratively years ago on garageband by 1st graders. Listen to it here or below.

listen to ‘Spooky Tree Collaborative Poem’ on Audioboo

Drama: We also tried some interactive storytelling techniques learned from a Golden Apple Foundation Conference in September lead by Colin Reeves. We all tried telling the story using body language & expressive voices while following along with this recording.

listen to ‘Long red fingernails’ on Audioboo

Storytelling with Dynamic Media: A few volunteers tried telling a quick story using our Green Screen app by DOINK about why their spooky landscape was spooky. Take a peek at these four students sharing before their own art below or here.

Spooky Landscape from Tricia Fuglestad on Vimeo.

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Illustration: the movie

9/25/2013

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Our Fugleflick Filmmakers just finished recording an original song about the art concept of illustrations. This was stage one of the movie-making process. Now they will work on creating a storyboard, draw animations on our iPads using DOINK, film before green screen, and edit all their work together in iMovie. Keep checking back to see their progress. It's an adorable song. Listen to their recording below on Audioboo.

listen to ‘Illustration’ on Audioboo

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