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iPad and STEAM workshop in Michigan

3/28/2017

Helping teachers stretch out of their comfort zones

I spent my first day of Spring Break in West Bloomfield, Michigan working with a lovely group of teachers on iPad creation and STEAM ideas for fine arts and technology. All my lesson ideas are on this growing smore flyer. There are over 185 so far so I use a numbering system to refer to them as in my handout for the workshop below:

Lesson #175 using Superimpose and Chatterpix

Lesson #7 using Do Ink Animation and Drawing App

Lesson #154 using Do Ink Animation and Drawing App

Lesson #22 or #184 Using Do Ink Green Screen App

Lesson #166 using iMotion and Ditty apps

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Digitally, Differently, and Dynamically

11/8/2016

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Handout for the District 47 iPad Workshop

I was asked to do an iPad workshop for the art teachers of District 47 in Crystal Lake today. I was able to show them a bunch of creative ways to make art with their students digitally to explore concepts differently and demonstrate understanding dynamically. (The numbers on the sheet refer to my 175 STEAM art ideas found here.)

Discussing how students photograph their physical art to create with it digitally

Teachers learned to use green screen

Teachers posed as superheroes

Exploring blend mode

making silhouettes

Monochromatic Triptych

Layering and drop shadow

Teachers learned how to do stop-motion

They made a short monster dance video

Teachers used iMotion HD to create stop motion animations in small groups. The app can be set to manual mode and display a "ghost image" of the previous shot so you can make small changes to create the illusion of movement. The app converts your series of images (we took 30 pictures and set the frame rate to 10 frames per second) to a movie file. I made it into a gif with ezgif.com

I demonstrated our "Animating Ourselves" technique with one iPad and full class engagement

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Animation Workshop

2/27/2016

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Still from Katie's animation workshop video that advanced to state PTA level

Since Dryden's art room began the year with a class set of iPads (find out how here) loaded with awesome creation apps (likeDoInk Animation App, Green Screen App by DoInk, and Superimpose), I decided to offer an animation workshop to students who wanted to learn how to create a film entry for the PTA Reflections contest. The contest theme this year is "Let your imagination fly" which lends itself perfectly to animation.

The workshop filled up with 4th graders almost immediately. Most of the students were uncertain what they wanted to create, so they learned techniques. Here are some animations they created:

Animated a still image interacting with a background created with shapes

Drew a contour line drawing over video (rotoscoping)

Drew a background and combined a drawing (cloud) with a still image to fly over

Drew a background, combined a still photo with drawing to animate over

Still photo w/ rotation on an animation path over a drawn background

One student, Katie, came to the animation workshop with a very clear idea of what she wanted to create. She had already written an original song and wanted to make an animated video to accompany it. So she worked with me a few more days to create an acapella audio recording in Garageband (with her own backup vocals) and a series of animated scenes to tell her story. She explored a bunch of animation tricks using still images, layered animation, and mixing live video with animation using green screen effects. View her little masterpiece here or below.
Her piece was selected by the NW Cook region PTA to advance to STATE! Congratulations!

FLY from Tricia Fuglestad on Vimeo.

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How Ghosts, Aliens, and Flying Fairies Tell a Story about Learning

11/22/2015

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I was honored with the opportunity to present my elementary art animation ideas for extending the learning digitally and expanding the curriculum via digital animation at the 77th Annual Kutztown University Art Conference in Pennsylvania.

Here is a quick sampling of my animation lessons and ideas that would help students demonstrate understanding of art concepts in a dynamic, motivating, and powerful way.

Layered Animations: See this post

Godzilla's Perspective: See this post

I Scream See this post and This one too

Running Alien: See this post

Rotoscope Animation: See this post

Animated Anagrams: See this post

Falling Animations: See this post

Bobblehead Animation: See this post

Make it and Move it: See this post

Vintage Illustration Animation: see this

Workshop handout (click to enlarge)

Thank you to the conference organizers, Peg Speirs and Nicole Romanski, who wrote a grant as part of the Kutztown Sesquicentennial Events to have me do a workshop with their pre-service art education majors as well as present to the conference attendees comprised of local art educators. Here is the calendar of events (It's so cool to be featured here). Learn more about the conference here.

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ICE Reflections

3/1/2014

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My iPad Workshop

Getting ready for my iPad workshop.

On Friday I had the privilege to attend and present a workshop at the Illinois Computer Educator's (ICE) onference in St. Charles, IL. I did a hands on iPad workshop exploring creative ways to use iPads with any content. We had a larger than expected group because of another workshop cancellation, so it wasn't as intimate as I would have hoped. But, more the merrier when it comes to learning. IPEVO very graciously provided some items to raffle to the attendees. You can actually ask for the item we raffled during the month of March. Check it out and make your wish here.
Download my workshop handout here.
Find all the iPad lesson resources here.
See some tweets from our session from Jennifer here and here. And Jorge's here.

Photos from Sessions

My Reflections

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ArtEd iPad Workshop, Villa Park

1/18/2014

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I was honored with the opportunity to work with the art team in Villa Park, IL on Friday. We went through a dozen or so art education based projects on the iPads together. You can explore the lessons we explored on your own using this handout. Open it in iBooks and use the links to download templates or view blog posts with more information.

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Back from the IAEA Conference 2013

10/27/2013

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The IAEA Student Art Show is a year-long traveling exhibit of selected pieces of K-12 student art. This year there were over 640 pieces submitted for consideration. Congratulations to Klaudia (center) from Dryden Elementary. Her monochromatic Old Guitarist paper sculpture was one of the 40 pieces chosen. Watch a quick slideshow of the awards ceremony here or below.

I taught a walk-in (free) 90 minute iPad workshop on Friday morning at the conference. We looked at using Sketchbook Express for a bunch of different art learning experiences including portraits, digital collages, and drawing landscapes using shapes. See the artwork workshop attendees uploaded to Artsonia using the Classroom Mode in this gallery. View my lesson page here.

Our Fugleflick, The Glue Blues, NE council session

I attended some wonderful sessions at the conference to get my mind thinking about visual languages for programing like SCRATCH for tinkering spaces with squishy circuits so students can join the maker movement. I hope to explore the Plugin studio to figure out how to bring these ideas to my art students.

Notes from presentations I attended on Advocacy, Online Art Education, Performance Art, Artist-Teachers, and Landscape Literacy at the ILAEA 2013 conference

Marissa Reyes, Me, Richard Siegesmund, Deborah Reeve, Laura Milas, and Oliva Gude

I participated in a panel discussion with International (Olivia Gude), National (Deborah Reeve), Regional (Laura Milas), Higher Ed (Richard Siegesmund), and Museum (Marissa Reyes,) art education leaders to discuss changes needed in our field. This felt like a huge stretch out of my comfort zone (my theme for the week) especially since I am k-5 art teacher who holds no official leadership position. Normally I do show and tell presentations where I let my students' work do the talking. On this panel I couldn't hide behind animations, videos, and artwork. I had to talk about my practice and my ideas for art education which I found to be very challenging in itself but considerably more so considering my distinguished colleagues. However my trip to Washington DC to discuss changing education to create innovators was fresh on my mind and fueled many of my responses. Thankfully, art educator Mark Hays, recorded most of the conversation and shared the file with me. You can watch the discussion below or at this link. (Thanks Mark)

Art Education Forum with Dr. Deborah Reeve and Professor Olivia Gude from Tricia Fuglestad on Vimeo.

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Educate to Innovate

10/24/2013

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Surrounded by leading innovators

I just returned from an invitation-only workshop in Washington DC called Educate to Innovate. Here we discussed possible roadblocks and action items to help change education to create innovators. I was joined by university leaders, large and small business leaders, policy makers, and K-12 representatives that were considered innovators. This workshop is part of an ongoing research project sponsored by the National Academy of Sciences in partnership with the University of Illinois department of Engineering. We met in the NAS building to listen to lectures and break out into small groups to share our ideas.

Entry way into the NAS building, DC

I was so honored to be invited to this workshop and have a chance to share my ideas for elevating the role of the arts in K-12. I believe the arts teachers should be the leaders in creating a culture of creativity, open-mindedness, and collaboration with a freedom to take risks and learn from mistakes. This is what our art rooms look like everyday. I was so happy to share with this diverse group of leaders how important an art teachers' role is in nurturing curiosity and creativity at every stage in life. I took visual notes from our sessions. Take a look at the ideas that were being shared below.

UPDATE: I used my visual notes and photos to make a video reflection of my experience.

Educate to Innovate Reflection from Tricia Fuglestad on Vimeo.

Notes from Herbert Holden Thorpe, Provost, Washington University, St. Louis and C. Daniel Mote, Jr., President of National Academy of Engineering

Break out session one: what is innovation? Is it rewarded in our universities? Do we see interdisciplinary approaches to learning in higher ed?

What does innovation look like in K-12? Can we resist narrowing the curriculum and stop over testing our students? Can we reclaim the role of teacher as innovator-not robotic curriculum deliverer?

Innovators are irreverent and break icons. They are problem-solvers who learn through failure. Process is as important as product. Do schools kill creativity?

I felt like this trip put me WAY out of my comfort zone. I traveled alone, to meet with strangers, and was a lone voice in many ways.

This became the topic of the Arts Roundtable podcast I contributed to from DC on Tuesday night.

Listen to Carol, Brenda, Jen and I talk about stretching our teaching and learning beyond our comfort zones in this new podcast.

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iPad Workshop in Antioch (again)

10/5/2013

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I was invited to come back to Antioch SD 34 to do another iPad workshop this week with a SUPER group of folks. See my post from the first workshop here. This time we were able to play with a bunch of new art lesson ideas, new apps, and try green screen effects.

Antioch SD 34 Art Team in Retromatic

All attendees of the Workshop

Original Photo

Masked with Superimpose

Layered in Pic Collage

We imagined ourselves as superheroes as we created a Newsweek Magazine cover in Pic Collage after masking out the green screen with the SuperImpose app. Learn more here.

We used Sketchbook Express to create portraits in layers. One for black lines, one for base colors, and one for tints and shades. Feel free to use my template. We also tried a collaborative photo collage.

We took a minute to use DOINK to haunt the room with a semi-transparent ghost.

Teaching Resources:

QR Code Book of Fugleflicks

DOINK Animation Lesson

No iPad? Try this

SIDE NOTE:
We are working on obtaining funds to have 1:1 access to iPads in the art room. We are half way there. Please consider donating to our Edbacker Campaign or our Donor's Choose Project. Voting via Sonic's Limeades for Learning a great way to help! Each donation will receive a copy of our SCAN|VIEW|LEARN Fugleflicks QR Code book ($5 value) to print and enjoy with your students. Learn more about the book here.

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Photo Collage in Sketchbook Express

9/14/2013

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I love working with art teachers on generating ideas for incorporating iPads into the art room. During the last couple of iPad workshops we would start creating by using the free app Sketchbook Express. I love the simple interface yet powerful possibilities of this FREE app. After trying our hand at drawing (see this collage of teacher's collaborative figures) we would learn to share our work with each other via AirServer on my laptop. Each participant can mirror their iPad and share the screen with each other without ever leaving their seat. See what that looked like here. There are drawbacks with teaching students to use airplay to mirror their iPads and that was demonstrated repeatedly during my last workshop. Someone kept interrupting my presentation by accidentally choosing to mirror their iPad through my laptop from a different room in the building. This would shrink my display and sometimes knock me off the stream entirely. Imagine the havoc our students could create if they used this tool for evil. (Don't get ideas, please)

Photo Collages made in Sketchbook Express

Photo Collages using Sketchbook Express

Open Sketchbook Express and touch the layers button.
Choose the flower + symbol, choose camera, reverse the camera to yourself, and take a photo of yourself framed vertically capturing your head down to your shoulders.
Still in the layers button, choose the + to add a new layer, choose flower +, choose camera, and politely ask a classmate if you can photograph a feature of their face (eyes, nose, mouth, ears, etc.) Click use.
Use the eraser tool to erase everything except the feature of the face you photographed.
Choose the transform button (it looks like arrows in four directions) and use two fingers to pinch, zoom, resize, and move until it replaces your own feature. Consider exaggerating proportions. Click done.
Add your third layer with the + button (while in the layers button) to repeat steps 2-5 with a new classmate's feature.
You've run out of layers and need to merge. Touch the top layer (it will be edged in blue) and click the arrow pointing down at the bottom of the layers tab. Choose merge. Now you've freed up another layer so repeat the process.
Choose the four squares in the left corner to save to gallery. Choose the flower arrow to save to the camera roll on the iPad.
Go to the camera roll to email your work to the teacher. Use the subject for your name and class.