Transdigital Art Workshop

Elementary Art iPad Workshop

Art teachers in Wisconsin Rapids, WI wanted training in technology integration using iPads. They had recently acquired some iPads (not at 1:1 yet) for their art room. I shared a full day of my creation based transdigital lessons with them. Many of the ideas I shared had both a physical art making component and a digital extension that encompassed more art concepts as well as touching on the national art standards of creating, presenting, responding, and connecting. 
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The first lesson we tackled was combining a physical piece of art (carousel horse) and a green screen photo of the student artist using both the superimpose app and brushes redux. Then animating the combined image using the Do Ink animation app across the stage up and down in a carousel style.

We learned how to make animations by redrawing four frames in a sequence of a digital photo of a physical piece of art using two free apps: Brushes Redux and EZGIF.com. 

The teachers organized a collaborative video using rotoscope in the Do Ink animation app. Each spoke a part of a word to combine into one message: ART IS EDUCATION.

Teachers used my portable green screen (thanks to Valera Screens) to experience the magic of the Do Ink green screen app. They brainstormed some other art pieces that they could manipulate so that students could interact and tell stories with art in this way.

This project, based on I'm Here, a book by Peter Reynolds, sends students on a flight in search of friendship. Teachers learned how to create a digital animation for the clouds, how to layer a still image with transparent background (png format), and a green screen video using all three layers in the Green Screen app by Do Ink.

The last thing we were able to sneak into the day was a quick look at how to use Keynote for drawing and animating. 
Take a look at the stylized results of the app's unique fill tool where the artist adds color by making shapes.
If you duplicate your drawing to a new slide (keynote is really presentation software) then redraw the eyes closed, you can make a blinking animation from the two images using ezgif.com.