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With the help of over a dozen supporters making generous donations to my Donor's Choose professional development grant, I was able to attend the National Art Education Conference in Boston. Thank you to the Dryden parents, teachers from my online personal learning network on twitter, and art teacher colleagues from around the country who donated!
Some Highlights:
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I was able to present at two sessions.
Along with an amazing middle school art teacher from Michigan, Janine Campbell, we presented on Transdigital Art. This session focused on our physical and digital methods of art production and management. 
Picture taken before the room filled
Janine lead everyone in an art dance
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I was able to share some examples of how students make art then extend the learning digitally and how this transforms the learning experience for students. All my lessons can be found at this one link: ​https://www.smore.com/tgcne
Love that @fuglefun has a kindness kiosk for her students. #naea19 #doink #animation #greenscreen pic.twitter.com/i1E1SdAjgN
— DoInk Tweets (@DoInkTweets) March 15, 2019
My takeaways:
My conference trip was very short. I arrived Friday just in time to present twice then run over to the #K12artchat meet up where I demonstrated and taught interested art teachers how to animate on the iPad using Do Ink Animation app. This was pre-arranged by the hosts of the event, the co-founders of Do Ink, who later took me out for a lovely dinner. This tweet expresses how much I appreciate their good work in education and the impact their app has had on my students and many others.
So honored to spend time with the founders of @DoInkTweets at #naea19 Your #animation & #greenscreen apps have added so much value to my #Drydenrocks #artsed room and so much joy to my Ss. I can’t thank you enough! https://t.co/Nw4XBxfvTG
— Tricia Fuglestad â˜•ï¸ (@fuglefun) March 16, 2019
No one rocks a tiara, a wand or the Animation and Drawing by Do Ink app like @fuglefun Truly magical! #naea19 #k12artchat #doink #animation pic.twitter.com/hLklgl951C
— DoInk Tweets (@DoInkTweets) March 16, 2019
Saturday I was able to soak in some good learning as I attended the Keynote session with Dr. Howard Gardner. Years ago Arlington Heights School District 25 embraced his hypotheses on Multiple Intelligences and planned PD around his work. Now, all these years later, he is still expanding on his research of the human brain. His presentation was about Wit and Grit. There were so many quotable moments. I captured these below.
Teach your subject first and if you want, intertwine other topics like: ethics, community, justice, social/emotional goals (paraphrased) #naea19 @DrHowardGardner pic.twitter.com/mG1ZjqOaKp
— Tricia Fuglestad â˜•ï¸ (@fuglefun) March 16, 2019
Words to think about from people I met
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Sometimes you start a conversation with the person next to you as you wait to hear the keynote speaker shower you with words of wisdom when this happens. Maryel Shepherd, first time conference attendee, sat down next to me and chatted. She told a story that included a person who didn't grow up, but rather grew old. I asked her to explain. She said, you have a choice in life. You can either grow up (by learning, stretching out your branches like a tree) or grow old (stunted in your growth) Here I was on a Saturday morning at 8:30 am attending a conference I had to fundraise to attend, hearing that I'm growing up, not old! It was very encouraging.
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I didn't get pics with all the people that touched me as we interacted but I did happen to capture Lisa, a retired art teacher from New York state, who had approached me as I waited to set up for my session. She explained that she followed me for years and tried many of my lessons with her students before she retired. Then, she kindly offered to help me set up and tear down my equipment at the beginning and end which was completely needed since I only had 10 minutes to hook everything up and try to troubleshoot the tech issue of not having an HDMI connection on my laptop as the projector cord required (UGH!). Luckily I had a spare VGA cable with me because something like this has happened to me before.
I didn't get a photo of Beth, who stopped me also before the session to introduce herself. She no longer teaches elementary, but said my blog and lessons were valuable to her and her students and wanted to thank me. As I was making my way through the exhibit hall, I was stopped by Tracy Skeels. She told me that her students were impacted by the lessons I share on my blog (and Nic Hahn). As I was looking at the Youth Art Month flag exhibit, I got really excited about seeing my students' art fly with augmented reality (see what I mean here). I wanted to show someone so I looked around and grabbed Kate Andrzejczak out of nowhere and showed her. So, that's how we met. As I began explaining the augmented reality effect she stopped me and said, Tricia it's you. I have to tell you how your lessons have inspired me. Her story wasn't as happy though. Her district moved away from iPads for the elementary students and gave them chromebooks. Their creation opportunities were significantly reduced since they would no longer support iPads. I told her that one of my hopes in freely sharing my transdigital art lessons is to give teachers a chance to advocate for iPads and creation apps by simply sharing the possibilities made evident by my students with the decision makers of the school. |
Bonus: Perfect Green Screen Flying Footage
I filmed 16 seconds of footage of the view outside my window. Download it for green screen effects
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I filmed 21 secs of the clouds during the sunset over the Chicago suburbs, Download below.
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Here is an example of what you can do with this green screen footage
Update:
Tasha Newton, my new friend from Wisconsin that I met at ICE19 in February connected again in Boston at NAEA19. She had won a Do Ink app code. I told her to stop by the meet up and I'll give her a quick tutorial using the app.
Sure enough Tasha stopped by the K12artChat meetup and I showed her how to make custom holograms (see my post and tutorial). Here is a picture she shared on instagram.
Below is the reason I do what I do. Mrs. Newton brought the ideas back to her students.
See Mrs. Newton's tutorial/lesson for rainbow holograms
See Mrs. Newton's tutorial/lesson for rainbow holograms
Click to view Mrs. Newton's Tutorial
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