MACUL presentation on Technology in Art Centers, March 2009

1. Using Technology
in Art Centers
Exploring Art Elements in Multicultural Units

2. Overview of Centers
Each art element is explored in choice centers.
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Center themes based on art from each of the Olympic flag’s
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color continents (Africa, Asia, Europe, Americas, Australia).
Students fill out a passport (ArtPort) as they complete each
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center.
I usually do the centers for two or three hours so students
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can do at least three of the five choices.

5. Use of technology in centers:
CDs, DVDs
iPODs and earphones, speakers
Discovery Education videos, images
Student produced podcasts Imported podcasts
iMovie instructions
iMovie/Frame student productions
SmartBoard interactive games, tools
Paint programs, online plus KidPix, Pixie
Online resources
Clicker games

6. LINE DEFINES
Looking at line as the basic art element
iPod centers/TV-DVD:
Discovery Education video segments
YouTube segments
DVD on boom box
SmartBoard game quot;om online
art source

7. African Mudcloth
YouTube demos:http://www.youtube.com/watch?
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v=a0eMjH6SM14

8. Calligraphy symbols of the
Olympics
Students review movies on
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IPod before painting

9. European drawing:
daVinci as inventor
Game on SmartBoard
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introduces invention
drawings by daVinci

10. Game found on internet
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Museums have excellent
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educational components
National Gallery of Art
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has exceptional activities

11. Mandalas, Americas
Line designs starting at a center point
Use mirror feature in Pixie

13. Australia traditional painting
with dots, dotted lines
CD with
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Australian
photos and
music inspired
these artworks

14. SHAPE UNITES
FORM INSPIRES
Three major units:
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Musical instruments incorporating shapes in decoration and
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structure Technology: iMovie production
Masks and animal sculptures: Taking shapes into a three-
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dimensional form Technology: use Discovery Ed images
Circles in many cultures Technology: Kaleidoscope soware,
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KidPix, Pixie

15. Shapes and Forms in
Musical Instruments

16. 5th Grade Multi-Country Music Video

17. Masquerade
Travel to Italy and Venice: DE video segment

18. African masks
Wooden masks imitated in clay and plaster

19. SmartBoard Notebook 10
Map of Africa used to learn countries. Students then
matched mask images from DE to country.

20. Mask by Picasso
Picasso inspirations
Hot/cold emotions based on African design
Modigliani elongation

21. Inuit masks
Paint from images found in DE collection as well as
photos from the DIA; live podcasts from the DIA

22. Masks from recycled supplies
These were used with Frames to make movies

23. “Frames”
Puppet
Productions--
A Museum
Walk
1) Students created mask or puppet on
old CD
2) Students took at least four digital
photos, moving mouth, eye, brows
to show comment on background
artwork
3) Students used “Frames” green screen
to add audio, artwork

24. Shapes/Forms
inspired by
Oaxaca,
Shapiro, Miro
and Kandinsky

25. DE video clip on Oaxaca

26. Paisley
introduced
with clicker
questions
Where did the “paisley”
shape originate?
Shapes:
Beyond Circles
Study of paisley,
fractals,
weaving rectangles

27. Shape to form
relationship explored in
National Gallery
online activity

28. COLOR IGNITES
Flowers and plants as
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the subject
Color as the art
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element
“All the Colors of the
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Earth” DE video to
introduce color to
younger students

29. SmartBoard Notebook 10 presentation
on color used at one center

30. Teacher produced
podcast for
instruction,
using student
artwork.
This podcast was shown on a large screen.
Students then watched the enhanced student feature on
VanGogh before painting their complementary landscape or sti' life in V Gogh’s style.
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Some students then produced their own podcasts using step by step digital photos of their work.

31. Student enhanced podcasts about artists:
based on Art in Story by Marianne Saccardi
Garage band
sounds as well as
nature sounds
from
Soundboard

32. Students narrate podcasts on complementary
colors as they paint like Van Gogh.

33. LIGHT
ILLUMINATES
Exploring how artists use shadows
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and light: DE video on science
Research artists: Student podcasts
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Paint/draw in the style of the artist,
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demonstrating understanding of use
of shadows and light
Dress up as an artist/character in a
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painting to present findings

34. TEXTURE
EXCITES
Creatures: Fur, Feathers, and Fins
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35. SPACE EXPANDS
Art Happenings: Artists
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Christo and Jeanne-Claude
Bubbles, Enclosures, Mobiles
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36. Angel Unit Inspired by
European ART
Students viewed PowerPoint on angels in
European art. They came up with questions
to be used in a Clicker Game the following
week, for review of concepts.
Artwork Angels in glue glass and
fabric dipped in thinned white glue

37. REcycled Art: Using junk,
100 ways to use a CDrom
Younger grades worked
in two or three centers.
Line defined with leftover
beads, yarn and felt.
Shapes explored in “Snow
Text
Globes” with CDs, felt, glitter,
contact paper.
Go to ArtSonia:
Southfield Christian
School to see lesson
plans and artwork

38. How do you keep track of it?
Delicious
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bookmarks
DE my
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content for
video clips and
images

39. SouthfieldChristian.org
Learning Links
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ART section
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