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Saturday, September 26, 2015
Visual Arts and Technology
My content area is Visual Arts. I am looking for ways you believe that technology can be used in the Visual Arts content area. I have been trying to think of ways that the technology in this class can be implemented into my future classroom and can only see a few uses. Any new ideas would help. Please give a specific example of your idea being used in the classroom as well as an overall explanation of that idea.
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Visual arts could be integrated into technology in a number of ways. In photography, photos can be manipulated with a program like Photoshop. Most computers have a Paint program where you can draw and paint pictures. I used to love doing that as a kid!
ReplyDeleteA really fun project for students that combines technology, visual arts, math, and reading is a free online 3D architecture program called Frank Lloyd Wright's Architect Studio 3D. It can be found at this address: http://www.architectstudio3d.org/ . This website is geared toward middle school-age students and helps them to build a house or living space based on a chosen client's needs. Then students choose a client from a list of people with different needs, then they design the space's location, exterior and interior design, and landscaping. At the end, they get to tour their house! The house can be saved and posted on your class blog for students to comment on one another's houses and can be displayed in the classroom. Students could even vote on the best house.
I like the Wright's architecture programs. That sounds like a great way to show art's connection to architecture.
DeleteVisual Arts can be incorporated into technology in many ways. Using movie maker or iMovie, you can have your students create a movie. One example is that your students can create a movie by reenacting a fairy tale such as "The Three Little Pigs". This is a fun way to get your students involved in a group project, get their creative juices flowing, and they get to integrate useful technology skills into the project. Of course this depends on the grade level you are teaching. However, you can have your students create a movie to information other students within the school of announcements and upcoming events.
ReplyDeleteI can see a way to create movies in what they call claymation. I think this could be done at a very young age.
DeleteI think if I were in your shoes, I'd use a blog mainly for sharing finished works. I'd find it much more difficult to integrate the technology into the actual teaching and learning. For example, if you made a claymation video with elementary students, I'd imagine you'd be the one taking the photographs and then you'd be the one putting them into a program to sequence and play. Of course, the older the students, the more of these types of tasks they will be able to complete on their own.
ReplyDeleteHowever, using a blog to showcase work and/or create a digital element of your classroom community would be beneficial to your students. Scanning, photographing, or recording finished works and then uploading them to a class blog would allow students to take pride in their work and share it with friends and family. You could take video of students presenting/explaining their work, too. These recordings could be built into your formative assessment plans. Using a blog in this way would be more than a "cutesy" platform and would actually be a useful assessment tool.