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Cardboard Light up Moveable Robot

6/19/2017

I found an advertisement for a pre-made stand up robot craft here. It made the maker in me curious to see if I could make one myself. So, I dug up a thin piece of cardboard and played. As I began cutting and attaching pieces using brad fasteners to give it the look of rivets I realized fasteners also add the option of movement like eyes spinning, levers pivoting, doors opening, and arms flapping. I knew somewhere I would like to attach a switch, circuit, and LED to light up. Since the robot is free standing and made from cardboard it was easy to make the switch and LED pop through the design and attach the circuitry to the back similar to these projects from a previous post or this one with a switch.

B-rad Fastener 9000

Process: designing the robot

After drawing out the basic head, neck, body, and legs I made cardboard pieces for attachments

I pressed through an LED and switch then flipped over the robot to wire him up with copper

Since all the pieces are attached with brads, I can easily take him apart again to paint

Crowdsourcing solutions: using twitter

It was at this point that I realized I could ruin everything if I'm not careful about my approach in painting the robot. So, I composed the following tweet and collage asking followers and anyone who sees what I should do next so the cardboard doesn't curl up.

My Prototype stand-up light-up #Cardboard #robot (named Brad) Q? Will he curl up if I paint him? Any tips? #STEAM #makered #papercircuit thx pic.twitter.com/XPI20TOVA3
— Tricia Fuglestad ☕️ (@fuglefun) June 18, 2017

Here are some of the responses I received; lots of great advice.

Painting the Robot: disassemble, paint, press

I gessoed the pieces on both sides then flattened them under parchment paper and books until dry

Then I painted the front of the robot using a limited color palette to create a balanced design

Complete: B-Rad Fastener the LoveBot

Here is B-Rad Fastener 9000 all assembled, painted, and lit up.

Here is a peek at what's behind the door and a close up of the LOVE-O-METER

If I remove his cardboard pieces that fit into slits at his feet he lays down...so shiny!

Digital Extensions:

Create an advertisement using graphic design techniques to explain the marvels of your creation.
As I was making my robot, I kept thinking about his cool gadgets and what they can do. This is my chance to fully explain B-Rad's coolness to the whole universe.

Create an animation using iMotion app
Show off your robot's moveable parts in a stop-motion animation. Notice the spinning eyes, moving gauge, peeking door, flipping feet, and flapping arms. (Oops, I should have included the blinking light)

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Art Institute of Chicago Field Trip

4/7/2016

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Fourth grade had a wonderful trip to the Art Institute of Chicago. We had a docent guided tour, lunch with a beautiful view, a chance to see Van Gogh's three Bedroom paintings on special exhibit, go on a scavenger hunt, and see President Obama's motorcade on the way back to school! Many of the teachers tweeted images and messages from the trip using the hashtag #drydenartic. I'll share them below.

#drydenartic Tweets

3 resources that made this trip better:

Connect a Concept Game (click image to view resources)

Art Institute Bingo (click the image to view resources)

Spect-ART-acles Game (click image to view resources)

The highlight of all highlights was this:

Wow! I just got a call from the Art Institute of Chicago complimenting our students and @fuglefun. So proud! #PrideInDryden
— Akemi Sessler (@AkemiSessler) April 7, 2016

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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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Community at NAEA16

3/20/2016

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photoshlopped image, orig. found on John Chuckman's blog

When I first learned that I won the AET Outstanding Community Service Award I was so grateful not only for recognition, which is wonderful, but for the opportunity to thank the people in my personal learning community who have done SO much to support me during my struggles following my husband's very serious injury. My speech attempted to explain how my view of community changed dramatically from a group I threw ideas into to a place that wrapped me in kindness then I was incapable of giving. Then kindly held my hand while I worked on getting back into the world again. I've learned so much about love and selflessness while on the receiving end from my community. I spoke specifically of the financial donations, the catered meals, the cards of encouragement that plastered the hospital walls, the continuous comments via Facebook of prayers for recovery, and the many hands that reached out to lighten my load with sub plans, attempts at including me in things without adding stress, and not giving up on me though I was out of the teaching world for an entire year. It was so wonderful to see so many of the friends who played such an important role in sustaining me through my hardships. How humbling that they chose to honor me when really THEY (you!) are the ones that should be honored, emulated, and applauded. My personal learning network taught me what true community means.

SD25 Art Team, Fine Arts Director, Dryden Administration, photo taken by SD25Supt. Dr. Bein

Tim, Janine, Lauren, Alice, Chris, Tricia, Samantha, Jean, Holly, Jeanne, Craig, Theresa, Amy

Friends from the #k12artchat and #k12artchallenge on Twitter

Me with inspirational PLN friends Janine Campbell, Cassie Stephens, Cathy Hunt.

Thank you to the kind people who have been following my husband's story as I post updates on Facebook and those who know me from my art education posts on Twitter. I kept having the pleasure of running into people who I had never met face to face before who took the opportunity to hug me and tell me they appreciate what I share and/or they are praying for my husband Dave.

Thank you to Holly for this photo. She waited outside the room to my presentation to meet me. It turns out that her husband put her up to this :)

Thank you to Kris and Tara for all the months of kindness you've given my husband and I online and the hugs I received in person.

Thanks to the many others who I forgot to photograph who stopped me to share love and support (Carrie, Tracy, Theresa, Christine, Jen, Nancy, & more.)

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Getting Started with DoInk Animations

7/5/2015

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Frame from two flip book style animations combined in composition mode using DoInk

I can help if you want. @AmyManata @timneedles would be fun to animate a butter dream & watch the dream melt away
— Tricia Fuglestad (@fuglefun) July 4, 2015

I saw a tweet from Amy (above) who's twitter profile says, "Life is a butter dream." She explained that this phrase came from her son's interpretation of the "row, row, row your boat" song. See her sketchbook drawing based on it here.

#jfj15for30 @smARTisteacher @GrundlerArt @HipWaldorf @MiniMatisse @lisa_montibello @timneedles @ArtWithMrE @fuglefun pic.twitter.com/8d1hbHS0tn
— Amy Manata (@AmyManata) June 28, 2015

So, I thought about how fun it would be to make an animation illustration of her phrase. There may be a bunch of steps, but a nice place to begin is using DoInk Animation app to make a flipbook style animation of butter melting. Here is my tutorial that gets you started on the process. You need DOINK loaded on your iPAD and a stylus. I just made up the melting process, but it may help to watch a video showing melting or go to your stove and melt some butter.

Melting butter animation in DoInk from Tricia Fuglestad on Vimeo.

Next step is to take this animation and combine it with a photo, another animation, or a drawing that it can interact with. I had a tiny animation from my last post of a head with eyes that looked around. It was already in my gallery on DoInk so you'll see I just pulled it in for the next tutorial. You could pull in a photo (using camera icon) if you save it to your camera roll first.

Melting butter in composition mode in DoInk from Tricia Fuglestad on Vimeo.

Sun Day #TERPart #k12artchallenge @AmyManata, @doinktweets https://t.co/CVmHNRyqXn
— Tricia Fuglestad (@fuglefun) July 5, 2015

Row Row Rotoscope your boat
Here is a how to 'row row row your boat" using a rotoscope technique in DoInk.
I'll be using this rowing video clip if you want to download it and give it a try.

Rowing Rotoscope from Tricia Fuglestad on Vimeo.

Now that you've learned about flipbook animation, composition mode, rotoscoping maybe you're ready put all the pieces together into a video or gif that you can share. Make sure you copy me into your tweet (@fuglefun) so I can take a peek.
I put together my interpretation of Amy's butter dream song below.

Singing w/my #davestrong

A video posted by Tricia Fuglestad (@fuglefun) on Jul 5, 2015 at 4:02pm PDT

My other DoInk Animation lesson ideas:

Running Aliens

Animating Anagrams

Rotoscoping

Animated Robots

Appsmashing Fairies

Anti-Litterbugs

Bobblehead Animations

Spooky Landscape

Bobblehead Blossoms

Based on Dance Giraffe

Lima Bean Monsters

Godzilla in Perspective

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Extending the Learning Digitally, #NAEA15

3/26/2015

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I wasn't able to attend theNational Art Education Association Conference this year since I'm on a medical leave to help my husband recover from a motorcycle accident. I had 4 presentations scheduled: one alone, and three with others. I planned on canceling all of my involvement and just watching the action from the sidelines this year via twitter. However, one of my co-presenters, Alice Gentili, suggested that she would present my material for me so that our presentation could continue. We had a plan to share about how our students' art experience is enriched by extending the learning digitally. I decided to take her up on the offer and put my thoughts together in a video format. She pieced my ideas in with hers in a powerpoint and played my video segment to the conference attendees (how cool was that!). View her presentation here. S0, even though I was far away form my friends in NOLA, I was still able to share my classroom with them.
Find all my teaching resources on this flyer (details at end of video.)

Extending the Learning Digitally NAEA 15 from Tricia Fuglestad on Vimeo.

Hey @fuglefun There you are! #naea15 @MonaLisaLivesHe pic.twitter.com/2svaGnYVEA
— Melissa Hayes (@ConantArt) March 26, 2015

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Arts Advocacy

4/30/2014

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Part of being a good art teacher is advocating for Arts Education. I grew up without an elementary art teacher and have always felt that many opportunities for building confidence, self-expression, and understanding the world around me were missed because I didn't have a visual art specialist throughout my education. Keeping our art program strong and helping schools across the state develop stronger programs is at the heart of my advocacy. So, I hopped the bus to Springfield along with dozens of arts teachers from Illinois to participate in the very first Arts Advocacy day to meet face to face with the policymakers. I tried to capture the experience via twitter. Take a look:

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Art Institute of Chicago Field Trip 2014

4/7/2014

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Today I took the 4th graders to the Art Institute of Chicago to see their permanent collection face to face. Students have been spending the past few weeks playing art games to become familiar with the art they would see on this trip. They played:
Art Institute Bingo
Spect-art-acles
Connect-a-Concept
I tweeted our trip using the hashtag #drydenartic and archived the images and audioboos below.
The photos from the trip are in a slideshow too.
Want to explore the museum with our scavenger hunt sheet? Click here to download it.

We received an email from our head docent on our trip. See her lovely feedback below:

All of the docents who led your students on tour commented on how much they enjoyed interacting with your students. Your students were described as bright, enthusiastic, and very well prepared to discuss works of art. We thank you for inspiring your students to appreciate art. Working with students like yours is why we love the job we do at The Art Institute of Chicago.

~Camille, Docent at the Art Institute of Chicago

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Back from NAEA14

3/31/2014

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"New perspectives", Convention Center

"The Internet Vortex"

This year I networked, shared, and learned with art teachers from around the country while attending the National Art Education Association Conference in San Diego, CA. Many of us stay connected through out the year via Twitter and Facebook sharing ideas, discussing important art related topics, and help each other problem-solve to hone our art programs and practices as educators. It is so fun to meet face to face at this event. We wore our ARTSED PLN shirts and met for a Tweet up at Starbucks and posed for silly pictures. Find some below in my Storify of tweets. I presented at four sessions about advocacy, Artsonia, putting STEAM in STEM, and making Fugleflicks with students. I had giveaways at each session sponsored by DOINK, IPEVO, and Artsonia. How fun!

Taking Selfies at the ARTSED PLN Tweet Up

My Visual Notes can be played back like a movie since I drew them in (the old) Brushes App

My visual notes from my whole conference experience

Session Resources:

Getting the Gear: Advocacy while Grant Writing, Contest Entering, Crowdfunding and all out begging for iPads. SchoolArts Article, March 2014
Fugleflicks: How to Create and Share student made videos (see K12 Online Preso)
Artsonia: Beyond the Basics View my slideshow here. View my gallery here.
STEAM ideas: Lego Wall, Anti-Litterbug, Rotoscope Animation, Lima Bean Monster eBook, Coordinate Finding, Fairy Evidence, Make-a-Flake, Hour of code

on the Teaching Palette

Me with Theresa and Samantha

Our ARTSED PLN at the Tweetup

Cassie, Nancy, Me, Christine presenting

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My First MACUL Conference

3/15/2014

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I wrote and received an Illinois Computer Educator professional development grant to attend MACUL, the Michigan Association for Computer Users in Learning Conference, in Grand Rapids, MI. I put in a proposal to present with my friend Janine Campbell, middle school art teacher from Byron Center, MI, and we were accepted! It was an honor to have our presentation accepted at a conference of over 3,500 attendees. We presented on student created movies to teach curriculum. I met some of my Twitter PLN face to face including @karlyb @jesscrandell @thenerdyteacher @rushtonh @gcouros There were many more I follow that I didn't get to connect with (or only briefly) and many more I hope to connect with from now on. On Friday's opening session, I tried visual note taking and shared my drawing on Twitter. It was retweeted a bunch of times. It's funny how twitter can make you feel like you're connected even when the crowd is huge and you know so few people. Below is my #viznote drawn in the Brushes App.
But wait, there's more. I saw this keynote at ICE two weeks ago & wrote this reflection.

My VIZNOTE of George Coursos' Keynote, MACUL14 . Below is the video playback of how I did the sketch on my iPad using the Brushes App.

Snapped this before our presentation

Janine and I have been making movies with our students for years. She shared her perspective and strategies as a middle school teacher and I shared mine as an elementary school teacher. If you want to learn more, we have our presentations online:
View Janine's here ---View Tricia's here
or attend our presentation at the NAEA conference in San Diego to learn from us in person. One thing George Couros suggested in his Teachers on Twitter session is that you should make a Storify of your tweets of the feedback you receive on your presentation. Janine and I encouraged our crowd to tweet something they learned from our session and awarded an @iPevo product to the first person to tweet out first on our behalf. Congrats again to Jessica for winning the iPevo wireless keyboard and case!

@fuglefun @campbellartsoup great session, in 17 years of MACUL, this has been one of the VERY BEST I've attended, I can't wait to connect!
— Dean Meyer (@meyerisland) March 14, 2014

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