Tricia Fuglestad's Blog

iEngage Midwest

3/22/2018

iPads help students demonstrate learning in dynamic ways. Learn about transparency as students animate a ghost over a photo, practice vocabulary by speaking through artwork, observe reflection with a custom hologram, and assess rotational symmetry by rotating designs digitally. Let's fill your STEAM toolbox with creative ideas to teach anything.

I'll be sharing this presentation at the iEngage Midwest conference
Saturday April 28, 2018 9:10am - 10:10am
Hamburger University 2715 Jorie Boulevard, Oak Brook, IL 60523

Click here to see learn more about his conference and my session.

I put some of my many many ideas in a thinglink so you could explore my resources by finding the link when you mouse over the images below.
All of my ideas are on my SMORE page.

My takeaways

I presented and attended conference sessions at Hamburger University in Oak Brook, IL where Jennifer encouraged us model digital leaders on social media, Carrie challenged us to gamify our classroom, Leah showed us how sketchnoting helps students with visual processing, and the authors of #nowclassrooms explain how we can move from Novice to Operational to WOW technology integration.

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ICE Conference 2018

2/28/2018

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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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Tech for Teachers Conference

10/1/2017

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I'll be presenting a session at the the Technology for Teachers Conference on Oct. 14th. Use this link to learn more and register. Here is a list of all the presenters and sessions. Group discounts are available for 3 or more teachers from the same school.
Email [email protected] to inquire.

Group discounts available-send an email to inquire

My Session: iPad Animation iDeas that Teach Concepts Dynamically

I plan on sharing about two dozen animation based lesson ideas that any teacher could use to give their students the tools to demonstrate understanding of curricular content with dynamic media. It's a fun, engaging, and potentially transformative way to teach. Below are interactive images in thinglink of my presentation handouts. Mouse over and click the ideas you want to explore. It will take you to the post where you can find my resources. Each lesson has a number that corresponds to a number in my Smore Flyer.

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Presentations at #NAEA16

3/20/2016

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Artsonia

Last year I was out of the swing of things since I had to take time off tohelp my husband in his recovery from a serious injury. He and I both went back to school this year and with that came my desire to present at the National Art Education Conference in Chicago. Fortunately, my district supported the entire art team when we expressed our interest in this amazing professional development opportunity.

Image by Melissa Hayes during my portion of the Artsonia presentation

image by Tiffany at Artsonia

Susan Bivona, Theresa McGee, and I each shared our unique uses of Artsonia in our presentation along with a preview of the new feature in the soon to be updated Artsonia app (you are going to love it!!!) by Jim Meyers, the CEO of Artsonia.

View the slideshere or below.

Artsonia so much more from Dryden Elementary School

iPad Animation iDeas

I shared iPad Animation lessons at the elementary tech carousel that teach art digitally, differently, and dynamically using the DoInk apps. The company even donated some promo app codes to 8 lucky attendees. (thank you!)

image by Chris Parker

image by Christa Perdue

The last time I did an elementary carousel I had a cozy little group around my table for each rotation. This time it was a ridiculously large group. My 50 handouts ran out after my first two rotations so I posted them below.Use this link to my ever increasing collection of digital art lessons online to find each iPad animation idea numbered below.

Community

I also had a unique opportunity to share my personal story of community as I accepted an award for community service to Art Education. I wrote about this experience and my speech in this previous post. Below is a slide from my short talk. It is a collage of images that represent some of the wonderful ways my community supported me and my husband during our medical crisis. The images represent the cards, donations, food, school fundraiser, art, art supplies, and the act of kindness from a third grader who asked her friends to write get well cards for Mr. Fuglestad rather than birthday cards for herself. Thank you again!

image by AET Twitter feed

I hope this doesn't look like bragging, but I wanted to create a visual that shows the awards I've won in my career. If you knew my story of how I struggled all my life with painful shyness and was almost fired my first year due very much to my inability to step into the role as leader in the classroom then you too would see this image as an encouragement. I started to bloom as a teacher as soon as I took a step outside of my classroom. The sunlight of community and water of encouragement helped me grow in the soil composed of students who keep me firmly grounded.

Presentations I attended

My sketchnote created in Brushes app from ideas and images throughout the event

On Friday morning I woke up at 5am to commute again into the city hoping to arrive in time to catch Janine and Cassie present on Leaving a Legacy. Their presentation was so inspiring. I was particularly touched when I saw that Janine included two slides that gave me and my students a shout out. So honored! But, I must say the whole experience was sweetened by sitting next to Cathy Hunt from Australia. I've been following her for years online and was thrilled beyond belief to finally meet her face to face.

Cassie Stephens and Janine Campbell spoke about leaving a legacy

Our Dryden Circle painting inspired by Janine's Dot Day collaboration

Janine's slide where she shared three bloggers that inspired her

What made the presentation more awesome was sitting next to Cathy Hunt, my Art Ed Hero

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Using ThingLink for Idioms

2/7/2016

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I'm always looking for ways to showcase student work. Sometimes it's difficult if what we make is in a dynamic media like a video, animation, or gif. It's even more tricky if the art really needs to interacted with for best results. This made me think about illustrating idioms. When you create one of these drawings it naturally turns into a guessing game. You want people to be able to figure out your idiom as they study your artwork. I've been playing with Thinglink as a way to create a guessing game with any kind of art. Happily I learned they support gif animations. So, this app/website would happily showcase this idea. See if you can guess any of my animated or drawn examples. Mouse over the red dot to see the answers. Click here to explore my other Thinglink images.

Here is a Fugleflick collaborative idiom movie made during summer school. Their illustrations are AMAZING. They use voice over to reveal the meaning of their work.

Idioms Illustrated from Tricia Fuglestad on Vimeo.

I'm not sure if my coffee images are technically idioms. They may be more of a literal translation of speech.

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Two iPads Short, Two Ways to Help

3/6/2014

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We love iPads in our art class and have been working with your help at getting enough iPads for the art room to have one for everyone. We've ALMOST reached that goal. We are only TWO iPads short. We have 22 iPads with class sizes topping off at 24 students. The younger grades have enough, but the 4th and 5th graders aren't quite there.
If you want to help us get those last two iPads there is a really easy way: shop and clip.

Shop on our Artsonia Gallery

Our online digital art gallery on Artsonia is not only a wonderful place to view your child's artwork, comment on their efforts, and have family join their fan clubs to connect around the globe, but it is also a fundraiser for our art program. Every time you purchase an item featuring your young artist's masterpiece Artsonia gives back 20% of the purchase to us. So use this link and explore their wonderful products. I love them all!

Clip Box Tops for Education

Box tops are all over your pantry items and tissue boxes already. Please clip them and bring them to school. Every one is worth 10 cents. At Dryden, the Box top money helps Music, Art, and PE purchase special items for their program. You know what we would like to buy:) If you clip them nicely then Mr. Gries doesn't have to spend extra time trimming them before he mails them in. Thank you so much for all you do to help.

Below is an interactive image that tells the story of our iPads. Some have come from winning contests, writing grants, crowd funding, and fundraising.
Click or mouse over each iPad link to learn more.

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Our Goal is Within Reach

3/2/2014

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I woke up this morning to a wonderful message in my email inbox:
"YOUR DONOR'S CHOOSE PROJECT WAS FULLY FUNDED!"
Thank you to the 17 donors who made this possible! These two additional iPads put our total art room iPad count at 22! This means when the iPads arrive we will able to do all class iPad projects with K-3rd grades!
(We are two short for our 4th and 5th graders).

This past week I tried to do a one day iPad project with a group of 4th graders without enough iPads. Some students were able to work independently but 8 of them had to double up. Who ever "went first" was able to complete their project while the one who graciously agreed to go second, didn't have enough time to finish. It was horrible to see 4 disappointed students leave the room when class was over simply because we were short on resources. The iPad is extremely fun to create on and to be excluded from the fun all around you is heartbreaking as well as a lost learning experience. I called those 4 students back into art class the following day during recess to give them a chance to have their turn to create. All of them happily traded recess for making art on iPads. I could tell they were relieved that I saw their plight. I DO see the plight and I am extremely motivated to do what I can to solve this problem. We need a 1:1 iPad to student ratio in the art room. That's the most logical solution for meaningful technology integration. It sounded like a HUGE mountain to climb, but with the talent of my students, the support of the Dryden community, and the MANY MANY supporters we have found online, our goal is within reach! View, click, and mouse over the interactive THINGLINK graphic below to learn about every iPad we won through contests, grants, and fundraising.

ONLY TWO MORE TO GO!
You can help us with the last two by:

Purchasing products that feature your child's artwork on our Artsonia Art Gallery
Clipping Box Tops for Education and bringing them in (each one is worth 10¢)

THANK YOU FOR HELPING US BECOME A 1:1 IPAD ART ROOM!

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