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
Happy New School Year! I hope each of you had a productive summer and is ready for a wonderful year at Logan High School. I have great lessons planned for you and look forward to getting to know each of you better. This site is our electronic meeting place. Your make-up work is found at the right: click Calendar of Daily Work. If you must be absent, it is your responsibility to see what you missed, ask me for your supplies, and make up the work. Now, let’s have the best year ever!
Beginning this week, you will work on creating an electronic portfolio of twelve of your best drawings from this semester. You will use Photo Story 3.
Electronic Portfolio Rubric
One final paper artwork portfolio will be evaluated on May 29, 2009. While you wait your turn on a computer, work on the last drawings for the year. Let’s go out with an Artistic Bang!
Do you origami? This week you may. If you’re interested, find a pattern that interests you and that you think you can follow. Print out the pattern, bring it to class, ask for the special origami paper, and origami!
Last week we held our third annual Spring Arts Festival at Logan High. Please log in and post a comment that answers the following questions:
Please complete this by Friday, April 17.
Most of you use social networking sites: mySpace, facebook, ning, etc. While mySpace users have abused the site’s freedom and given it a bad name, many people continue to use it. Facebook is popular with both adults and young people.
College professors teach real classes at secondlife; professionals use linkedin.com, twitter and ning.
This week I want you to think about what your online persona tells about you.
If you haven’t joined mySpace, facebook, or a similar network, and you haven’t been in The Logan Banner or some other public online resource, you might not find anything about yourself. If that is the case, look up someone in your family or look up your last name.
Last week you shared a tutorial site you like. This week you will continue that discussion by replying to one of the comments in the post directly below this one. In your reply, tell why you like/dislike use/couldn’t use the tutorial named in the comment you’re replying to. You may make your comment in class if you need help.