Tricia Fuglestad's Blog - Dryden Art

Virtual Presentations and Twitter Chat

11/9/2020

This has been a big year for virtual conferences since many art associations have switched their formats from in-person to online. This year I'm virtually traveling to present in Georgia, Texas, Michigan, and Illinois to share a Keynote and presentations about our transdigital art and augmented reality. I also had the opportunity to host a Twitter chat for anyone thanks to the Grundlers who host #K12artchat

Dryden's Art Show 2019-20

8/23/2020

The Arlington Heights Library Art Show was canceled last May. I had all the banners ready to go already. They were just tucked away in my room all spring and summer long. When I returned to the building I decided to hang them in the hallway outside the art room. I know you can't come and see the art yet, so I took lots of photos and video to share it with you virtually. I even captured the augmented reality effects for the transdigital pieces. Take a look below or go to this link.

Thoughts from #ICE19

2/25/2019

I just returned from a day at Illinois' edtech conference called ICE 2019. I attended a keynote, went to 4 breakout sessions, then presented. I put my thoughts together in this animated sketchnote using Do Ink #animation app. I made the ICE spinning animation last night while I was prepping for the conference. I've seen other sketchnoters at #ISTE18 prep their art ahead of time. I knew I would want the ICE logo, so I took my time and made it rotate through flipbook animation techniques.
All of the conference resources are found here.

Animated sketchnote from the sessions I attended created in Do Ink Animation and Drawing app

Cardboard Light up Moveable Robot

6/19/2017

Art Institute of Chicago Field Trip

4/7/2016

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

Presentations at #NAEA16

3/20/2016

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

Community at NAEA16

3/20/2016

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.)

Getting Started with DoInk Animations

7/5/2015

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

Extending the Learning Digitally, #NAEA15

3/26/2015

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

Arts Advocacy

4/30/2014

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: