Professional Growth Technology Day

Today was our Tech PGC Day. As usual, got a lot of useful information, but found it hard to adapt in the art room. (Another aggravating point to note is... every time we have presenters show some awesome tools or sites, we try them out the next work day- and they're blocked! How frustrating is this?!) Anywho.. my notes from the day:

Claymation Movies

Materials:
- Modeling Clay
- Paper
- Markers/ Colored Pencils/ Crayons
- Scissors & Glue
- Pipe Cleaners
- Cameras & USB Cords
- Photo Editing Software
- Movie Editing Software

Create your own Pollock

Fun little website to emulate your own Pollock artwork. Drag your mouse across the page to "drip" paint and click to change colors. Would be a good introduction to Pollock and preliminary assignment.

Jackson Pollock

Mandala Maker

Quick and easy website to introduce making mandalas and radial symmetry. Would be a great preliminary activity.

Mandala Maker

Picasso Head

Materials:
- computer with internet access
- printer
- paper

This was a fun and easy lesson to expose my students to Pablo Picasso. We discussed his artwork, style and specifically portraits. With the use of our school computer lab, the students were able to create their own abstract Picasso Head. This website also introduced basic editing tools like stretch, rotate, flip and more. The best part was the students were able to sign their work!

If it's in your school budget, it's nice to have a print out of each child's work.