I would set up a class blog that students could comment and post on. In today's classrooms diversity is unavoidable it is my job as a future teacher to educate and challenge my students so they are college and career ready. The art classroom blog will allow class participation for those who are more comfortable writing than speaking, and also provide a medium where thoughts are allowed to materialize before being shared. I believe once everyone becomes comfortable with the technology, it will certainly add value to my art classroom. Having a universal place for students of all cultures, race, religion, ethnicity, sex orientation, etc. come together and share their thoughts about a particular art technique or artist they may like. No matter what we are discussing in class this blog would be a way to create a new culture that involves my content area of teaching. Also, as the teacher I'd be able to post links to local art gallery exhibitions, or summer art camp opportunities that if checked at home may reach the parent versus writing it down in a notebook and forgetting about it by the time the student arrived home from school.
I was impressed by Storybird. It allows users to read, create and share books to view online using original art provided on the site to fuel their creativity or enhance their ideas. Artwork can be searched by artist, themes or random browsing. Once a work of art is chosen from the site’s image library, a page is created with a place for text. The user then types directly onto the page.
Three things that stood out to me after using Storybird:
1) Attention: Students would be engaged and think creatively while building skills in vocabulary, sentence structure, and creative and conceptual writing skills.
2) Depth: This empowers student engagement in all levels of Bloom’s Taxonomy, culminating in the creation of written works.
3) Efficiency: The site is user friendly, requiring skills that most students already have, such as simple word processing, clicking to choose and scrolling to browse.
Also, collaboration is also an option. Within a class, students can select a classmate from a drop-down menu of student names and send an invitation allowing another person to add to the story. Work can be kept private or be shared via email links. As a future art teacher this technology would be a great tool in my classroom.
Since my last post I've learned a new technology called "Glogster". Everyone who’s had to make a poster for a class project at one time or another, this piece of technology will excite you. Glogster is a tool to create online multimedia "posters" that can incorporate all types of elements into a visual space: links, images, text, videos, music, and more. My future students will have multiple ways to express themselves and to learn from each other, making it easy for me to differentiate and engage each student. As a future art teacher I would use this technology as a tool to introduce a lesson to my students. For example, I would create a "glog" about Andy Warhol, including images of his artwork, links to professional sites about him, and audio/video giving the students a chance to hear someone critique his pieces of art. Also, I could have students create a "glog" at the end of an unit as a way of assessing if they clearly learned the material, vocabulary, step-by-step processes, etc. The student then could present their "glog" to the class or I could grade them without having a class discussion about them. As a graphic designer, I was unaware of this technology but I think this would be a great tool to use with both elementary students as well as high school students. I think it's a great multimedia tool that allows literacy to be a focal point in the classroom.
This is a glog I've made for my education literacy class: Carrie's Reading Autobiography
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