I've been playing with ways to make a switch or button on my paper circuit artwork appear more integrated and purposeful. The robot I originally played with had a momentary button that I designed over the battery into the belly of the robot. See it here. The button also worked as the mechanism that closed the circuit. This time I bought a button online that was spliced into the circuit and not necessarily near the battery. This meant the connection to the battery was fixed and pushing the button (with a satisfying click noise) completed the circuit. I've been playing with ideas in preparation for the fall since I finally received the Donors Choose grant for supplies to try this with my students.
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Want a high tech option? We now have a class set of iPads available so I designed a lesson to try an iPad Rotoscope Animation collaboration. It's the same idea but no need for transparencies, scanning, or printing. Everything is organized and created digitally. Explore it here.
About a year ago I was approached by Facets, the non-profit group that hosts the Chicago International Childrens' Film Festival, and asked if I could submit their favorite Fugleflicks to their project. They proposed making a child-friendly curated film app that gives children, parents, and teachers one place to go to view the best films for children in the world. They said they would like to include the best films by children for children as well. That is why we are SO EXCITED to announce that they specifically asked for
Well, the Facets Kids app has been released. You can explore it here. All our Fugleflicks are free to view on vimeo, but the app is full of AMAZING videos by adults for children and children for children. It requires a subscription to view, but the non-profit will donate half the proceeds back to the filmmakers to build up their programs. Win-Win! Two other ways to enjoy Fugleflicks
I put together 20 of our favorite Fugleflicks into one QR code book. Students can scan the pages with a free scan app on their iPads, plug in some headphones, and learn about art independently with our student-created art-related entertaining videos.
Click here to learn more about this book and peek at the pages. My students LOVED exploring these videos independently.
I also put together these same 20 favorite Fugleflicks into an eBook that you can download to your iPad (just over 40MB). They play the movies in your browser (need wifi available to view) to keep the book from being too large for your school iPads.
Learn more about how to use the ebook, how to download it, and get them ready for student use here. Fugleflick to introduce Contour Line Drawing:Drawing From Experience from Tricia Fuglestad on Vimeo. Lesson Extension:
Take a digital image of the finished artwork and have students add an artist statement using an app like Phonto if on an iPad or Keynote if using a laptop.
I started combining three free apps to make one strong statement about contour line negative and positive portraits.
The Photo Grid collage app is free, clean, and full of functions. (I like that it doesn't leave a watermark on your artwork like pic collage). I played with a bunch of ways to put the negative/positive images together in the app. I thought about matching the images so they complete each other. I thought about notans and the play of light and dark as I created these.
Have your students bloomed where they were planted? Have they grown this school year? What better way to show student growth than to have them demonstrate with an animated bobblehead featuring themselves. Each students' animation could include a reflection in audio or text highlighting the way they have grown throughout the school year. Bobblehead blossoms from Tricia Fuglestad on Vimeo.
Option: Have students photograph a place where they have grown or have been planted. Use this photo as the background for the animation. Option: Save as data (doInk) and open in Green screen app to have more than one bobblehead blossom animate together. Import your animation video in the Shadow Puppet app to add voice recording and music. This would be a great way for your students to explain how they've grown. Here is another appsmash. I created a budding artist slideshow using Superimpose app, photogrid app, the blossom bobblehead animation from DoInk, and the Green Screen app. Blow are the pieces I made and combined. I layered blue background, a green shape (to become transparent in the green screen app), and a frame in superimpose app then put it in Phonto to add text. I left the space on the right for the blossom animation. I chose a square frame to match the format of the slideshow created using photogrid app. This is a great way to create mini digital portfolios with your budding artists. The above movie was made using the Green Screen app. The top layer was the blossom animation, middle layer was the budding artist template, bottom layer was the slideshow.
Long ago I came up with a project called iExpress where students pose in a way that expresses themselves, create a silhouette, and add an iWord much like the old iPod/iTunes ads. This project can be reproduced in many different ways on the mac using Photoshop or Keynote or on the iPad using superimpose and Sketchbook Express. I have all three ways explained in this post. I revised the project today to add a new twist. Instead of the final product being only static images, the lesson can be extended using the animation tools in Keynote. Students could be challenged to create a pose that lends itself to a movement and then animate that movement using the options for actions, effects, or animations within the app. This can be done on both the Mac and iPad.
Click here to download my keynote to explore my transitions and animation choices Learning objectives:
Explore this other keynote animation project too (includes tutorial): http://drydenart.weebly.com/fugleblog/flying-fifth-graders1 As I was walking down the cereal aisle at Target I stopped and noticed the limited addition Avengers corn flakes box. I probably took notice because of the Wheaties box next to it since I had made a template for students to create their own Wheaties box cover in this previous post. It made me think of my old Superhero Cereal project from years and years ago. I decided to revamp the project for iPads and explore different ways of designing the box cover. I found boxes featuring athletes, celebrities, and even Norman Rockwell's portraits of children. So, I designed a template on a white background. It requires an image with a transparent or erased background to layer over the template. Here are a couple ways to approach this. You'll want to start by downloading my Blank Corn Flakes Template and my optional Limited Edition Box stripe. The easiest way to layer a photo into the template is to have the student pose first in front of green screen. Then, import all these images into the Green Screen App by DoInk. Set up your layers like this: bottom=template middle=photo (resize by pinching) top=(optional) stripe (resize and try to stay to keep it straight). Use the "image" mode to save in a snap to your camera roll. You'll need to go back and crop the photo to remove the black edges with the built in editing tools. Other ideas:You can have students create a piece of art, erase the background and layer using the Superimpose App. I like to use the drop shadow effect as I save the image to give it more depth. I have a simple tutorial for this process on my Wheaties post. Here is a box cover idea: Animated Bobblehead Corn Flakes! Now that the Green Screen App by DoInk and the DoInk Animation app communicate with each other (I export DoInk animations to the "shared folder" option and import the animation in the Green Screen app via the "shared folder" option), you can create an animation in one and import it into other for SO many super cool effects. Learn about how to create animated bobbleheads in this previous post. I was digging through my old student project files when I came across a wordle.net project from December of 2008. Wordle was all the craze around then so, I wanted to try it with my 5th grade students. I had them type on a spreadsheet 75 words about them. The first five words were their name repeated since we wanted their name to be the largest word in their word cloud. I prompted them when they ran out of ideas with questions like: Are you a brother, son, grandson? What is your favorite after school thing to do? What is your favorite in school thing to do? What words would others use to describe you? What words would you like others to use to describe you? The project became very reflective. Students had to start digging deep to come up with their other 70 words. I did allow them to repeat a few of the most important words two or three times so the word cloud would emphasize them. While they were working I pulled them to the green screen (which back then was actually blue roll paper) in the back of the art room to pose for their artistic photo holding a paint brush and wearing a smock. We combined the word cloud image and the artistic photo using Keynote on the laptops. This was the only tool I had available at the time for masking out the background (using instant alpha) and easily layering images. We used drop shadows and frames as they designed their layout with overlapping. IPAD VERSION If I were doing this project today I would have students do every step on the iPad using
1. Notes to brainstorm and write their 75 words 2. Word Cloud to paste in and create their cloud then design their layout 3. Superimpose to layer their images together, mask their photo, and save I have a tutorial showing how to layer and mask images using the superimpose app here. The images can also be layered in the latest version of the Green Screen app by DoInk now that you can resize images. |
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