Secondary Visual Arts Ed Tech Cadre
Art instruction can be enhanced through:
- increased individual student contact time as a result of using document cameras for whole class instruction
- increased number of online resources, including images and video, expose students to represent a wider breadth of artistic styles and techniques
Needs Addressed: Art teachers demonstrate a variety of techniques to students as they teach media such as painting, drawing printmaking, and small-scale three-dimensional work. With newer technologies such as document cameras and projectors, art teachers have the ability to do whole group demonstrations, with close-up views to see details, rather than repeating the same demonstration to small groups of students. Whole group demonstrations provide teachers with more time for individual student contact. Students also benefit by being able to display and discuss their own artwork. Digital representation of student projects allows them to use their work in class presentations, online art galleries (Artsonia), and in programs such as Art In Motion, where students are teaching younger students. The ability to present to a group for Extended Application projects is key in the visual arts
Additional tools, such as laptop computers connected to multimedia projectors, allow art teachers to integrate the vast number of images representing many styles of artwork, by projecting images for whole class viewing. A simple Google search of art museums provides links to dozens of online resources and exhibits. The Metropolitan Museum of Art (“The Met”) alone has freely available images and descriptions of more than 30,000 pieces of artwork from its permanent collection. This one web site alone has more examples than any textbook could ever provide.
Activities:
- training on and implementation of document cameras to display art demonstration, capture images, and retrieve and display previously captured images
- training in the use and management of photos (both from the document camera and from online) using iPhoto
- identification and implementation of online resources
Wanted: Teachers who want to integrate technology in the secondary visual arts classroom as described above. Participants may also be asked to serve in a leadership role during the 2009-10 school year.
Target Audience: up to ten secondary visual arts teachers are encouraged to apply.
Participating teachers may receive equipment such as laptops, projectors, document cameras, and presentation stations as needed to complete this project.
Staff development: Dates and times for will be discussed at the first session.
- Two hours during the back to school week (Aug. 27, from 10am-noon): Projector/Document Camera basics
- Two half day (sub release days, Feb. 24 and Apr 14, 7:45-11:15am @ Tech Services): Laptops and online resource use and identification
- One district staff development half day (Dec. 1 @ 12:30-4:00; Tech Services): Online resource use and identification; iPhoto
- Two after school sessions: (Oct. 27 from 3:30-4:30; May 27 from 3:45-4:45) check in and classroom implementation discussions
-- (Erica, please contact me about this date)
We will be meeting in the Technology Services Training Room behind the district office for all trainings unless otherwise noted.
The application window is now closed for this project. See the project web page for more information.
Contact Information: 726-3430 or by email for further information.
