Are these words in your vocabulary? Can you use them appropriately? Write an email message to me using each one correctly.
* your
* you’re
* there
* their
* they’re
* too
* to
Be sure to send it to the correct address: peggie.hensley@gmail.com
Subscribe to the Mary Cassatt VoiceThread. (Get there through your edline account.) As soon as you log in, upload your avatar. Help each other by giving audible directions, NOT by typing on your peer’s keyboard. Remember, we learn BEST by doing, not by watching.
When your avatar is successfully uploaded, follow the directions on the first slide. You will have to do some research. Don’t give up. Persevere.
It’s time for another Quiz. Open Mary Cassatt in a new tab. Toggle back and forth between the new page and this one while your read and respond. Do your best.
Here’s the link to a great tutorial for Photostory 3: How to Use Photostory 3. Everything you need to know about how to use the software is explained. If you are a newbie, use the tutorial.
Images and music must be school appropriate. AND you must give credit to the authors/creators of both. If you can’t find who created the image or music you want to use, DO NOT use it. Copyright law gives us freedom to use work that we did not create, for educational purposes, within certain boundaries. We will obey the law. Check out creative commons images and music for use in your PSA.
Public Service Announcement Rubric
Please take this quick quiz:
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You got your user account at gmail.com so that you have access to all the neat Google tools. We’ll start using them by collaborating on a google document. I’ve created one for each of you. As soon as you send me a message from your gmail account, I will share the document with you. You will be able to log in and write in the document. I will be able to log in and read what you have written.
So. what are you writing? You’re going to tell me about your favorite artist, from any discipline: music, theater, writing, food, visual, etc. Choose a person that you already know about so that this doesn’t become a research project. Deadlines are as follow:
Be creative. Don’t insult me by telling me you’re writing an essay! Duh!
If writing is scary, try using one of the following sites:
Basic Essay Writing
Advanced 3.5 Essay Instructions
Simple 3.5 Essay Instructions
Start your search for information at The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Remember our discussion about websites:
Wordle is a fun web 2.0 app that many of my colleagues use. Today you will use it to take a quiz on the Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain exercises you’ve been doing.
Go to wordle.net and create a wordle with ten important words from the book so far. Think about the purpose of the exercises; think about what you learned (or should have learned.) Put the most important words in your wordle. (**You will explain your graphic later, so choose your words carefully.)
Consider varying font sizes and how you arrange the words on the page. Think about the principles of design as you work.
Have fun!
Will you be a starving artist? Is the starving artist label truth or myth?
Click on wallwisher and post a sticky with your opinion. Spelling, grammar, etc., is important, so proofread your sticky!
In spite of all the technical glitches we experienced, most of you accomplished the task of finding information and posting it. Great work! Now we need to look at the information you posted:
Log in at our van Gogh Voicethread and rethink and revise. Consult the Voicethread Rubric Mrs. Hensley gave you in class.
Before we do anything further at Voicethread, you will take a survey.
Click on this LINK.
You have until Wednesday, November 11, to complete the survey.
We begin using Voicethread this week to research and learn about Vincent van Gogh. Look at the google calendar posts for this week before logging in to Vincent van Gogh VoiceThread
Avatars MUST be 80 x 80 pixels (or so). Filenames CANNOT contain spaces or punctuation.
If you get locked out of Voicethread, see me immediately. Work on sponge drawings when you are finished
