Recent Changes

1. Creativity and Innovation
Students demonstrate creative thinking, construct knowledge, and develop innovative products and processes
using technology. Students:
a. apply existing knowledge to generate new ideas, products, or processes
b. create original works as a means of personal or group expression
c. use models and simulations to explore complex systems and issues
d. identify trends and forecast possibilities
Lesson idea: Claymation stop-motion animation
TLW create a character out of polymer clay.
TLW collaborate with their peers to create a short stop-motion animation using Claymation Studio 3.0.
2. Communication and Collaboration
Students use digital media and environments to communicate and work collaboratively, including at a distance,
to support individual learning and contribute to the learning of others. Students:
a. interact, collaborate, and publish with peers, experts, or others employing a variety of digital environments
and media
b. communicate information and ideas effectively to multiple audiences using a variety of media and formats
c. develop cultural understanding and global awareness by engaging with learners of other cultures
d. contribute to project teams to produce original works or solve problems
Lesson idea: Epal Holiday
TLW collaborate with peers in other countries through Epals.com.
TLW share artwork and personal experiences.
TLW interact through VoiceThread.com to critique each other’s art work.
3. Research and Information Fluency
Students apply digital tools to gather, evaluate, and use information. Students:
a. plan strategies to guide inquiry
b. locate, organize, analyze, evaluate, synthesize, and ethically use information from a variety of sources and
media
c. evaluate and select information sources and digital tools based on the appropriateness to specific tasks
d. process data and report results
Lesson idea: Art Process Presentation
TLW work in groups to generate a PowerPoint Presentation teaching an art making process of their choice.
Possible Process include:
-How to make a color wheel using only red, blue and yellow
-How to draw a realistic landscape
-How to draw a portrait
-How to use oil pastels or pastels or tempera paint
-How to draw a car
-How to weave
-How to construct using plaster or paper mache`
-How to make a claymation character
5. Digital Citizenship
Students understand human, cultural, and societal issues related to technology and practice legal and ethical
behavior. Students:
a. advocate and practice safe, legal, and responsible use of information and technology
b. exhibit a positive attitude toward using technology that supports collaboration, learning, and productivity
c. demonstrate personal responsibility for lifelong learning
d. exhibit leadership for digital citizenship
Lesson idea: Class Blog
TLW as a class develop a Blog promoting anti-bullying and self-empowerment.
Possible topics:
-Interviews
-Upcoming School Events
-Fun Facts about Peers
-Birthday Notices
-Dragon Do Gooders- a spot to post positive comments about peers doing good things.
-Artwork and pictures
Each person in the class would be given a topic or task each week to add to the blog. New ideas and topics will arise as the students explore the culture of the school.

This is one of the easiest ways for me to teach a new lesson. I present the idea to the class in a PowerPoint and once we have completed the project I take pictures of the students work to use for the next class.

Awesome Job Lisa... love the parallels you make with technology and art changing, yet not going away. Very fun to listen to! - mark
Lisa, great topic! You brought up wonderful points of discussion and had a nice flow. -Delaine
my student.
Great job! - Nick
Hey Lisa!!! Great job with the podcast. My .wmv doesn't seem to be working properly on my wikispace account, so I might just upload the audio like you have. I think another great point about traditional art vs art with technology, is that technology in many cases creates a way that the artist can achieve success and notoriety when they are alive! Whereas traditional artists typically die poor and are never appreciated until they are gone. The computer is just one more medium of which an artist can create art. Our art teacher says "An artist is an artist no matter what medium they use..." - Tim

Awesome Job Lisa... love the parallels you make with technology and art changing, yet not going away. Very fun to listen to! - mark
Lisa, great topic! You brought up wonderful points of discussion and had a nice flow. -Delaine
Hello Lisa! Great job in bringing two subjects together. Great point that technology can bring art to students without leaving the classroom. I do that with my student.
Great job! - Nick

Nice job Lisa. I agree that technology certainly has its place in art. Art is always influenced by the world around us, and technology is now a huge part of that.
Awesome Job Lisa... love the parallels you make with technology and art changing, yet not going away. Very fun to listen to! - mark
Lisa, great topic! You brought up wonderful points of discussion and had a nice flow. -Delaine

http://vimeo.com/6324036
Nice job Lisa. I agree that technology certainly has its place in art. Art is always influenced by the world around us, and technology is now a huge part of that.
Awesome Job Lisa... love the parallels you make with technology and art changing, yet not going away. Very fun to listen to! - mark

This is inspiring....
http://vimeo.com/6324036
Nice job Lisa. I agree that technology certainly has its place in art. Art is always influenced by the world around us, and technology is now a huge part of that.