I am
appreciative of this assignment, as I feel it is very important to intergrade
technology into the classroom, for our students to gain a more in depth
understanding of fine arts. I put a
large amount of my focus on this assignments into blogging sites, as I see them
as extremely useful tools in visual aiding images. With the Internet being so
predominant as a tool in our everyday life, as educators, we must allow our
students to see the benefits of photo uploading and sharing. The more viewers
are presented with new, and different images, a deeper imaginative world is
created for all audiences. Using technology such as an Epson 35mm scanner can
gratefully help introduce a student to the professional end of art, and helps
set a standard for how the use of technological equipment can aid a final
production. I contributed several of my entries under the authoring resources
in art. All of the free websites I spoke about, such as photobucket, pixiv, and
tumblr, work as very useful ways of allowing students to store images they are
working on, without taking up their own personal space on their hard drives,
and also gains them access to explore what others are posting about. Students
can gain ideas for projects, or studies that can help increase their art making
abilities and over all understanding. Among all of the picture storing websites
mentioned, I think Pinterest is the most useful, because the images you are
presented, are targeted for you’re over all interests you show in what you
follow. Following blogs such as Art for small hands can greatly benefit future
teachers, in aiding them with lesson plans, and new ideas to present to
students. Among all of the technologies I touched on, the one I hold closest to
me, in my daily use is Instagram. Even though this Apple application is free,
it has significantly helped me as an artist. I am able to post my works and
photography, and live through a constant critique from those who follow me. All
of these technologies certainly help in opening up students minds, and engaging
them to seek new images to help further them as an artistic minded person.
I enjoyed the research that went
into this project, and using the google spread sheet helped in keeping our
ideas together neatly and organized. I feel for an online class group work is
hard, especially considering we do not know half the people we are expected to
work with. I look forward to intergrading technology into my classroom.
Evan, I think one of the great aspects of this project was how we all found technologies that the other group members did not. As a group we had very few repeated technologies. Two of the ones you found that I think are great are the file storing sites as a group: Photobucket, pixiv, Pinterest and tumblr (don't forget Google docs, too), and the Art For Small Hands website. The teacher who authored that site has not only has many years' worth of ideas for teaching and student learning, but I think she sets a great example for us: when we are all teaching, we should launch a website for examples of successful uses of technologies in the art classroom!
ReplyDeleteEvan, can you help me understand what aspects of your group's project either led to or detracted from authentic collaboration?
ReplyDeleteKevin, some aspects of this group project that detracted from authentic collaboration is physically not meeting, and discussing in person. There is a lot of communication that goes on it person that helps aid in creating a successful final project, and with only being able to accomplish this online, I feel some of that communication is lost. I hope this provides you with a better understanding of what I meant.
ReplyDeleteEvan, thanks for your thoughtful response.
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