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Friday, April 29, 2011
Friday, April 15, 2011
Word Play!
Word Play and Art Criticism
Art criticism is critical thinking about individual artworks or groups of artworks. With that said, what an enjoyable time we had with Word Play. Noise- Flying- Full- Calm- Mix...Can you interpret a word with a drawing? We did! The challenge was to choose a word and create an artwork based on that word. At the end of class we tried to guess what each others word was by looking closely and describing details in each others artworks. As students learn how to offer interpretations, they also learn how to make judgments about the plausibility of those offered by others. In the end, what they discovered was that even though they had only one word in mind when creating their art, there were actually many possibilities for all of the words to work. Check out the slideshows below to see the results.
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Create your own video slideshow at animoto.com.
Art criticism is critical thinking about individual artworks or groups of artworks. With that said, what an enjoyable time we had with Word Play. Noise- Flying- Full- Calm- Mix...Can you interpret a word with a drawing? We did! The challenge was to choose a word and create an artwork based on that word. At the end of class we tried to guess what each others word was by looking closely and describing details in each others artworks. As students learn how to offer interpretations, they also learn how to make judgments about the plausibility of those offered by others. In the end, what they discovered was that even though they had only one word in mind when creating their art, there were actually many possibilities for all of the words to work. Check out the slideshows below to see the results.
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Create your own video slideshow at animoto.com.
Create your own video slideshow at animoto.com.
Create your own video slideshow at animoto.com.
Friday, April 8, 2011
Friday, April 1, 2011
Middle School Plaster Gauze Masks
I'm super proud of my elective class not only for the way the masks turned out but I am very proud of how well they worked together during the process. I observed the students learning from and about each other while discussing their artworks. Another great thing was that the students could follow their own learning path; kinesthetic, verbal, logical or spatial.
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