iPads in Art
Our wonderful Art teacher, Shana Gutterman, has been a wonderful supporter
- to collaboratively work with classroom teachers (I wrote about her collaboration with the Language Arts teacher in a previous post – Transliteracy- QR Codes and Art)
- to test out iPads
- to not only have students create analog artwork (water-colors, ceramics, etc.), but also to create a digital image to be able to share and disseminate her work on her Art Blog with the parent community and other Art teachers from around the world.
She is becoming (or maybe already is) fluent in “upgrading” traditionally taught Art lessons to include much needed skill practice (communicate, collaborate, connect, create) with transliteracy methods. Shana is also growing as a reflective professional and blogger. It is a pleasure to read and follow along as she is expanding her curation, reflection and social networking arena to amplify her connections and learning.
If you are interested in Arts, check out shoshyart on her
Take a look at Shana’s first attempts in incorporating iPads, as she was expanding and upgrading a traditional lesson on contour lines with fourth graders.
Students started out with drawing their hands with a pencil and moved on to using the app “Brushes” for their self-portraits.
Shana’s reflection below:
I had my second lesson teaching iPads in art. Its so easy for me to teach an old fashioned art lesson, with paints. Teaching on the iPad will require some more practice.
We used an app called Brushes. The students learned about contour lines and created a self portrait.
I am still trying to figure out the best way to demonstrate the app- do I do it before the project or demonstrate as we do the project?
The first group of fifth graders got a demonstration before and during the project- it seemed too lengthy.
The second group of fifth graders just got the step by step demonstration and that seemed to go better.
When they are drawing on paper its easier for me to scan to see if they need assistance. The iPads are harder to tell where everyone is at.
The students liked it and we will try it again next week now that they mastered Brushes.
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Hi, it’s me again! Just dropping in to comment on your latest post. It was interesting to me that you could use the iPad to teach art in the classroom. Since I am not familiar with the iPad I didn’t realize that there was an app called brushes I will have to check it out when I can get my hands on one. I, too, appreciated Shana’s reflection on how the lesson went since I was curious how that would go over with the different grade levels.
Again, thanks for sharing! Hope you have a great week. I will be posting about this blog as well as the previous one in my own blog for my class assignment. Check it out http://www.collinsbrittanyedm310.blogspot.com.
I am not a very good artist (at least that was what the B’s and C’s on my grade cards led me to believe
. I recently downloaded Artrage for my iPad and I am having a ball with it. My plan is to let students that are artistically inclined to be able to “play” with it and maybe even incorporate it into their proof of learning. Unfortunately I only have two iPads for them to share (but there is always Paint or other apps on the computers).
At some point it would be great if they could incorporate what they are doing in art class into my regular ed class too.
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I am a student at EDM310 at the University of South Alabama. I enjoyed reading this post. I think it was a great idea for the teacher and you to get students to start blogging. I plan to have my students blog as well.
I am a student at the University of South Alabama in EDM310. I love this post. I love art and I feel like many schools are leaving art behind. I think it is wonderful that students are using iPads to incorporate art. Your blog site is killer. I will be back to visit. Thank you.-Lori Wyatt
This is so cool! Art plus technology! I sure hope other art teachers would use this kind of technique as well. This will definitely make children happy (especially those who can’t draw). This re will boost some self esteem here. Great post!
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