#IAEA18 Conference Takeaways

Session notes:

I used an animated sketchnote technique where I draw in the drawing mode of the Do Ink drawing & animation app and pull the elements together in the composition mode.

I attended two days of sessions and keynotes at the IAEA conference in Bloomington-Normal, IL. This animated sketchnote helps me remember what I learned. Let me explain a bit here.

• One thing that struck me about the smART interventions session is that teachers were given extra time in their school day to help students build skills, confidence, and develop their own techniques in the arts. This was a top down initiative with all staff and students participating. What would this look like in my elementary art room? Art club, stations in the art room for skill building, skill building mini-lessons? Hum, something to ponder (Thanks Jen & team)
• The doodle that says, Try Your Best came from the classroom management session. They talked about zones of regulation, ticket rewards on a school-wide bases, PBIS in the art room, and the at-risk students' needs. I'm very interested in exploring this topic more since student behavior/readiness is key to learning.

This session made me think about my "LISTEN HAT" (learn more from this thread on twitter). Every elementary art teacher has the challenge of trying to reach every learner in their school. I have over 500 students who usually come to art very excited (sometimes too excited). I have lots of tricks in my pocket that I pull out to help get their attention. This light up hat is my newest addition.

• I really liked this art and literacy idea where students write a 5,7,5 Haiku poem and incorporate it into their art. This may be an awesome way to use the Wordfoto App (which fills the photo you take with the words you chose digitally. It limits you to 12 words, which means you need multi-syllable word choices to get to the 17 need for a Haiku. (Thanks Mallory)
• I took notes also on some ideas for stretching your budget. One very useful tip that I want to remember to try is asking for a BID from a company. First you fill your online shopping cart with what you want to purchase, then you email your area representative from the company and see if they propose a bid that saves you money. (Thanks Ashley)

My Presentation: #TransdigitalArt

During my presentation, I shared numerous project ideas that try to harness the transformative power of digital media to expand and enrich learning in the art room as students span both physical and digital art-making. Explore my 245+ STEAM art lessons here on my continually updated smore flyer. Below is Try Your Best, a Fugleflick that incorporates transdigital ideas for storytelling.

Try Your Best (full version) from Tricia Fuglestad on Vimeo.

Student Art Show: Congrats Joanna

Joanna's second grade Picasso Relief Portrait Collage (click to view the lesson post on my blog) (click to download the lesson from TpT) was chosen for the year-long statewide student art show. Her piece was one of the 45 pieces that will travel the state to show each community the value of a high quality art education program. This year 20 pieces will also be exhibited at the state capitol in Springfield, IL to advocate for the arts. Joanna's piece was one of the 20 selected for this exhibit as well. How amazing!

My little artist in red poses with the 45 Illinois artists with work in the year long traveling art show

Click to see Digital Exhibit on IAEA Website

See the show=>Palatine Library in February