BP#17_2009/11/3_Comment

BP#16_2009/11/3_ReflectiveVideoBlogPost

This is the newest Web 2.0 Tool of my fascination. I have blogged about it on y previous entries but I just had to show a video using this tool. I believe that everyone can create incredible pattern designs using Repper and have so much fun doing it! It is so easy to use and you will be endlessly fascinated by your own artwork. Please also look at my 2 previous posts for more examples and information on this tool.

In PicksArtTricks, this is what I will rate as a "CoolTool"! Check it out.

BP#15_2009/11/3_Comment to Art21Speaks

November 10, 2009 6:45 PM
lori pickering said...
The Incredible Art Department has been in my repertoire for a very long time. Not only is it fresh and innovative, the educators who built and maintain the site are so friendly and helpful. It is worth the time and effort to connect with this group of Art Educators for the conversation and support they offer. There are great leads for lesson plans for every age level. It is a valuable tool for art teachers.

November 15, 2009 5:52 PM

BP#14_2009/11/3_Comment on Blog Post

Posted by Roxy at 7:40 PM
Labels: art, mandala, math, symmetry
2 comments:

Lori Pickering said...
This is a nice simplified tool for creating mandalas. I, too, do many art lessons around radial design. Its connection to math and symmetry are excellent for students to see the relationship between art and math. In middle school, differentiation is critical and this site may be perfect for students who are not advanced enough for My Oats. Thank you Roxanne.
November 10, 2009 8:44 PM
jsibley said...
I am always looking for new and interesting art projects since I teach my own art. We aren't as fortunate to have an art teacher. I wish we were. The mandalas look fun for the students. I want to try this lesson. I also like the fact that it incorporates math into art. I also like that students can share their art work with others with out having to print it out. Go Green! Go job Roxanne!
November 15, 2009 1:34 PM

BP#13_2009/11/3_Repper examples

I wanted to show more examples that I created!

These are from pictures of my daughter and her beautiful eyes! The middle design reminds me of butterflies. Repper will connect to TouchSpot.com to create a postcard of your new pattern. The cost is$1.49 and it takes a couple days to get the postcard. I have not tried this yet.

http://www.touchnote.com/landing/postcard?refid=repper&imgsrc=http%3A%2F%2Frepper.studioludens.com%2Ftiles%2Ftouchnote%2Fpattern_002F8EE1-ECC8-5EB6-DFC3-FB23676627F1.jpg

BP#12_2009/11/3_Web2.0tool_Repper

Repper http://repper.studioludens.com/

http://repper.studioludens.com/patterns/pattern_28D739D4-9B45-9CC3-F938-FAFA8F0D686B.jpg

Repper is a most amazing tool. It will take and make a pattern out of any image that you place into it. My example photo is of my printed name, Lori L. Pickering. The Repper tool will take a square section of your image and repeat it, making a beautiful pattern.

You can manipulate the design by moving your placement square or you may change the pattern type. It is surprising how different the patterns are. The section square may be moved and the patterns will morph into stunning and amazing designs.

You may embed your pattern into your social profile background.

All designs can be used publically under the Creative Commons license for non-commercial use.

You can follow Repper on Twitter or subscribe on your blog feed. In ETC, this would be a cool way to create blog pictures. It almost has a “hidden picture” feeling to it, because you will be amazed to see what the image originally is. It feels and looks like those extreme close up photos and when the camera is pulled back you are surprised the see that pattern was created from someone’s face!

I do have more to explore in Repper, but I am already thinking of cool ways to use this tool in the art class. First off, the idea of teaching the art principle of Repetition with this tool is a perfect fit. From simple to complex images, my students could create brilliant patterns for printed book covers in bookmaking. For patterns used in graphic design or web design, Repper is also a perfect fit. The students’ as well as the teacher’s imagination will be captured by the beautiful designs.

I even thought that by using a black and white line image or a hand drawn design, the pattern could be printed out and use as a coloring sheet for color themes, warms and cools.

I will be using this tool in my own artwork, lesson plans and my web-work. It is really fantastic!

BP#11_2009/11/2_Reflective Video

This Web 2.0 Tool is one that I have enjoyed very much. It creates radial designs and it is impressive. The kaleidoscope designs are like Spiragraph from my childhood. I think everyone should play with this a little bit!

I will use this for many examples in the art class because it shows the radial design's mathematical basis. This is the most important connection the math curriculum and it helps the student to comprehend how the shapes create the design.

BP#10_2009/11/2_Web2.0Tools_Mutapic

http://www.mutapic.com/Mutapic_01.swf

This is a wonderful creative site for more complex design. It is called Mutapic and it takes two images and mutates them together to create a completely new image. I spent hours playing on this site and still did not discover all of its possibilities. the images that I came up with were really cool and intriguing. It is not for younger students unless they have the basic understanding of graphic design concepts. It is more for the high school to adult age group. The design outcomes are incredible and limitless. Try it as soon as you can!

BP#9_2009/11/2_Web2.0Tools_Cubescape

This web 2.0 tool lets you build with virtual Legos. The URL: http://www.themaninblue.com/experiment/Cubescape/new.php

It is called Cubescape and it is very fun. It is challenging and creative to build complex designs with the cubes. It can be used by younger children also. It also enhances color usage and with practice, you can become skilled at building.

BP#8_2009/11/2_Web2.0Tools_XtraNormal

XtraNormal Text-to-Movie

This Web 2.0 tool is great to make videos! I have used it for FSO courses and it is very simple to use. You will pick an avatar, a scene and type your dialog. When the production is complete, you will have a short video. It is very fun and user-friendly to use. Students can easily work through the site and create videos for assignments or for fun. Check it out at this URL:

http://www.xtranormal.com/

BP#7_2009/11/2_Web 2.0 _Tools_Voki

This web 2.0Tool lets you create an avatar that you can make speak and you can send it to your Blogger page , email it or post it. It is a little bit limited on selections that you can make but it is fun and easy to create an avatar similar to yourself.

The site is located at this URL http://www.voki.com/mywebsite.php

I am thinking about trying this with students to create a scenario for teaching an element of art.

BP#6_2009112_Flickr

I will use Flickr to show student art work in progress. These four photos show two 8th grade Oaxacan Sculptures in progression. The students who are coming into my class in the next 6 weeks can see how students before them have done their work. It will help new students visualize the project prior to beginning and it will give students form the past classes a record of their progressing in this advanced project.
I will also use Flickr to keep a gallery of my student work for administration, parents and colleagues to view. This can be used at Parent Night to run a video on my projector to entice new students for art class.

BP#5_2009/11/2_ Educational Uses for Social Bookmarking

Social bookmarking has several benefits to the educational world as well as a few disadvantages. This web-based service will save your favorites and organize them by tagging them with terms that you pick. It will sort them into several areas simultaneously. Other users will save similar tags and you can link into each other’s bookmarks when searching topics. This opens a larger resource for all users. You can also search by popularity in a topic area.

Del.icio.us is the Web’s largest bookmarking site. It is unfiltered, so it may not be appropriate for students but it is free and easy to use. It will enable educators to develop a broad set of resources and share them with other educators. Another asset of using Delicious is that it can be accessed on any computer with Internet connection. Among the many ways that social bookmarking can be helpful in education are that it can support research, lectures, can be used to build communities, can be used to support individual and group projects, can be used for professional development, for informal formative feedback and it can be used to manage content abilities.

A few of the disadvantages of using Delicious are that it requires an online connection at all times to operate, it is impossible to control the users’ vocabulary, there is an inconsistency of terms used, there is a lack of precision, there is no competitor on the market. Although Delicious is simple and efficient to use, it is not a social network. The last disadvantage is the information load that becomes large takes more time and attention to browse through. In spite of these disadvantages, social bookmarking adds many advantages to its users, both in the educational world and on a personal level. Among these attributes are the ability to create collections of information, to manage marked information, to personalize that information, to utilize search options, to find information for research, to evaluate that information and finally to collaborate and communicate with others.

Social bookmarking is a Web 2.0 tool that’s time has come. It has valuable and practical usage for many of us. It will change as the technology changes but for today it is an excellent tool to organize your own information.

References:

http://www.education-world.com/a_tech/sites/sites080.shtml

Article by Lorrie Jackson
Education World®
Copyright © 2009 Education World 04/18/2006
Updated 06/05/2009

http://www.teachinghacks.com/wiki/index.php?title=Social_bookmarking_tools

http://www.scribd.com/doc/2413801/The-Role-of-Delicious-in-Education

ARP beginning Blog

http://web.me.com/loripickering/Lori_Pickerings_web_site/My_ARP_Blog/My_ARP_Blog.html

This is the beginning of my ARP blog

BP#4_2009/11/2_Web 2.0 Tools-MyOats

Image created by Lori Pickering 2009

on MyOats.com

I have chosen http://www.myoats.com/create.aspx as my Web 2.0 tool. This is a wonderful tool that you can use to create circular designs. I teach my art students how to create Mandalas every year. We have always created by hand. With this tool, my students will be able to design endless geometric designs and learn about symmetry, radial balance and detailing. They may save their designs and upload them as desktop designs or send them to an iPhone.

Lesson Plan using My Oats : Grade level-6th, 7th and 8th

Objective: To create a radial design using complementary colors that uses MyOats web 2.0 as a designing too

STEPS:

1. Go to www.myoats.com
2. Choose "Create" at the top tool bar
3. Go to the bottom tool bar . look at the far right side and choose "Stage Color". This will let you pick your background color. Remember the complementary colors=red/green, yellow/violet, and orange/blue. You may vary the intensity of the colors in any way that you choose. (For example in using Red/Green, you may pick forest green with baby pink.)
4. Now go to the far left side of the bottom tool bar and choose your "Shape Color".
5. Move along the tool bar and choose whatever you like. Test things and if you do not like it, use the EDIT button to clear the design. Start again.
6. Continue designing until you have created a pattern that you like and go to the top tool bar. Under File you will find a save button. Click this and name your design. Also check the box that makes the design "Public".
7. You have now completed the project!

Image created by Lori Pickering on

My Oats.com

BP#32009/11/2_Screenshots of iGoogle Page

WGO-Home Page

ETC Page

ARP Page

BP#2_2009/11/2_RSS Feeds

I feel a little uncertain about all of the new things I am trying to use. I know it will become more comfortable as I get used to it...

I am excited to set up this blog and use Google Reader. I follow many websites and now using Google Reader aggregate tool, I hope to keep more current and up to date.

Here are the feeds that I am following :

http://twitter.com/NCAEA

This is North Carolina's National Art Education RSS Feed. I have membership in this organization and I participate in workshops , meetings and conventions that they provide. I have always gotten emails from NCAEA, but now I will be able to keep updated more easily.

https://twitter.com/craft

This is a Craft blog. I love creative, innovative creation. I get many ideas for my lesson plans from current DIY projects. This feed always has great ideas and a group that is open-minded to new ideas in creating everything. I will follow this with enthusiasm to find new craft ideas.

http://www.edutopia.org/rss

This is the RSS Feed for Edutopia, The George Lucas Educational Foundation. Its focus on educational issues that are right on the pulse of today's teachers, schools and students. The information provided here is immeasurable to all educators. There are many connections to grants, articles and other information that can help individual teachers as well as school systems. It is really a wonderful resource.

feed://artjunction.org/blog/?feed=rss2

This is the art teacher's guide to the internet. Ideas, tools and resources for teaching art and design in a post-digital age. The blog offers ARTEd online and posts on art education 2.0.

http://actionr.edublogs.org/

A personal narrative on action research in art education. This may be my most important RSS, as it will help me in my own research.

BP#1_2009111_Getting Started

The idea of blogging is intriguing to me. I feel that it is my personal connection to the news that is most important to me and my concerns.

As an art teacher, I am always looking for new approaches to familiar journeys. I think that blogging is a fresh new direction in artistic discussion, review, critique and expression. It is new to me in many ways, so I feel as if I am charting new territory. I know that it will get easier as I go.

I am ready to meet the challenge and embrace the technology that will change my way of teaching art. I am ready to engage 21st century learning skills and utilize them to facilitate my students' educational opportunities.

I plan to set a blog on my school web page. This will give my students a chance to interact with art prompts, discussions and information in a new way. I hope to put a student gallery on the site also and provide a place for student interaction.

I think that the possibilities that blogging can provide include collaboration and a direct connection to improving reading and writing skills for students. It is a new way to introduce art vocabulary and a place for students to use that vocabulary in their discussions. It can also serve as a place for critiques of artwork. Open discussions in art enhance students' self expression and build confidence in relaying their own points of view.

I am really excited to get started in this new direction. I know my students will also be excited to explore art in this way!