Mary Attardo Krench          psu edu 464

 

Hello folks. I am currently  an art teacher extrordinaire for the Sayre school district.

 

 I am most certainly a digital immigrant, having just recently gotten off the boat with nothing more than the quest to learn. But, isn't that what Digital World is all about! Ciao!

 

 

Virtual tour of the Musee D'Orsay, Paris

http://www.musee-orsay.fr/en/collections/overview/overview.html?S=                                                                                                                                                    

 

Non-linear Site for kids,  Poptopia ,character visits a museum

http://www.poptropica.com/

 

 

 http://www.poptropica.com/base.php

 

 

Podcasting:  Our group has decided to create a podcast based on a residency that we do at our school. I am involved with the Bradford County Regional Arts Council.  Through a grant program with the Pennsylvania Council for the Arts, we are able to bring professional artists into our schools for a ten day residency.  Our podcast will feature artist Hua Hua Zhang and sixth grade students creating a shadow mask theater production.  This style of theater is unique to China and Indonesia and will knock your socks off!  In ten days kids will become experts in scenery, mask making, performing, and will be enriched by learning some Chinese language, customs and mythology.

 

 

Power point:  In truth, I don't use much power point in my art classes.  I teach Kindergarten through sixth graders and the majority of class time is hands on experiences.  I can see the benefits of its uses, as you will see by my non-linear outline of color theory. If I taught at a high school level, we would encompass more art history, theory and techniques.  On a smaller level,  when I taught art club, we met more often and for a longer class time.  We were much more likely to use power point in that setting.

 

I did design a non-linear lesson on color theory.  I mapped it ouy on paper and Mr. Rice will insert it here.

 

 

Virtual Technology: One of the most useful aspect of virtual technology in my classroom is the ability to take my students to an art museum.  This can be an actual museum such as the Musee D'Orsay (www.museumstuff.com http://www.museumstuff.com/will get you just about anywhere) in Paris to a fun site that two third graders recently introduced me to(www.funbrain.com) where a game character can visit a museum as part of the game.  www.funbrain.com       They shared the site with me because one of the paintings that they could click on was a piece that we were working on in class.  I am also able to show examples of artists work instantly.  Another valuable resource is clip art.  I have tons of drawing books in my art room,  but often we need a picture of something that I don' have.  I only have my teacher's computer in the room, so we have to google image or whatever, together.  The kids are pretty savey knowing where to look for something.  I will sometimes have a site bookmarked when I know ahead of time what we will need to see or discusss.

 some other favorite links:www.eduweb.com/pintura/b1.html  is a fun interactive site where a low class detective helps clients identify a masterpiece                         

www.artsedge.Kennedy-center.org/content/3645/  is a lesson plan for missing masterpieces.  It would be more appropriate on a high school level because the kids need six 45 minute classes and I only see them once every six school days.

www.artsedge.Kennedy-center.orghttp://www.eduhound.com/showlinks.cfm?subj=Arts%2C%20The&skey=Art

 

 is a site dedicated to all of the arts. I am able to go to the visual arts and then to lessons for a "bevy" of art lessons for lots of different levels.

 

 

 

Links to Websites:

www.eduhound.com  often has new links to the art classroom.  This year issues have included the Renaissance,  King Tut, and museum lessons.  Each of these branch into related links for lessons, art history and museum tours.

www.museumstuff.com  can take you to any museum in any country in the world  http://www.museumstuff.com/

www.getty.edu/education/for-teachers/building-lessons/guide http://www.getty.edu/education/for_kids/ this particular site has lessons by grade level for building visual art lessons to meet state standards.     www.crayola  www.amaco   www.higgins  etc. are all art companies.  If you visit any art supplier and go to art lessons, they all have good lessons using their products.    www.artsandactivities  www.schoolarts  www.scholasticsart  any publication will also give you art activities on line.                                                                                       If I need a site on a particular artist or period of art, I can also look them up individually and then go to the associated links.

 

 

WebQuest: Vincent Van Gogh

 

 

 WebQuest:  I created this webquest for my students to work in  teams of four.  They would create a quest to teach the rest of the class some things about Vincent Van Gogh, his personal life and his art.  The quest could be altered to fit any artist,  but, Van Gogh is my favorite artist.             

http://teacherweb.com/PA/HAustinSnyderElementary/VincentVanGoghWebQuest/index.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

	Vincent Van Gogh WebQuest

Introduction	Task	Process	Evaluation	Conclusion

Role1	Role2	Role3	Role4	Standards

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Five lessons that can be used in the classroom using technology

 

1. Digital photography of student portraits altered to reflect four artist's styles.  A digital photo of each student will be taken at the start of the lesson.  The photo will be printed onto a full sheet of paper.  I then enlarge the photo to 11x17 inch size on the copier and print four copies for each student. I can assign, or the student can select, four different artists such as Picasso, Chuck Close, Cezanne or Warhol.  The student will look at works by that artist on the web by using the artist's name.  They will then use media such as colored pencils, watercolor paints or markers to alter each photo.  The photos will be mounted together on large mat board to be displayed.  By using their actual portraits, the results are alarmingly similar to the desired artist's styles.

 

 

 

 

 2.webquests for art     

  http://www.eduweb.com/

 

 http://www.artsconnected.org/toolkit/explore.cfm

 

http://www.renaissanceconnection.org/main.cfm

 

http://www.poptropica.com/

 

 

Are all excellent sites for interactive art activities.  Some deal with the principles of art such as the tool kit site.  Others deal with art history, including games and lesson plans such as the Renaissance connection.

 

 

 

3. Google an artist or go to http://www.museumstuff.com/ to see a style of art.  One such lesson we have done is on the artist Rene Magritte.  We looked at various Surreal paintings by Magritte and saw a trend of blue skies and puffy clouds in the background of many of his works.  He was also noted for painting daylight and evening scenes on wine bottles.  Armed with this information,  we painted our own Magritte style scenes on wine bottles, using acrylic paints. Without the use of sites to visit, we would not have had as much resources to look at and compare.

 

 

4.Digital Photography lesson  http://www.adobe.com/education/digkids/lessons/symmetry.html

 

 Are you really symmetrical?Perhaps no other image is as well-known as the human face. What better subject could be used to reinforce simple principles of mathematics and to generate interest in middle school students? This lesson will utilize digital manipulation of a personal image to help students visually understand geometric concepts.

 

 

This lesson is appropriate for middle schoolers who are computer savey. A digital photo is taken of each student and manipulated so that the final product will have the same side of the face flipped to create a truely symmetrical portrait.  The image, of course looks odd, showing that a human face is not actually symmetrical.

 

 5.Digital Video Lesson 

 http://www.adobe.com/education/digkids/lessons/light_makes_right.html

 

 

You will create your own kind of quiz show. You will write questions and offer multiple-choice answers. Then you reveal the answers with a special effect that brings a ball of light to the person with the correct answer. Part of the fun is guessing the right answer. Another part of the fun is guessing where the light will come from.

Again, this lesson would be for computer literate, middle schoolers. You could use it in other classes besides art, since the students design the questions.  The technology twist would be in making the light appear on different araes when the question is answered correctly.