Assignment #4 (technology project)

For my technology project, I decided to use a lesson plan I did for my art class. I completely reworked it, attempting to use at many site and tools as possible. For my art lesson, I had talked about Andy Warhol and his method of screen printing. I talked about how he was the "prince of pop art." I used several features to make my Smart Board feature entertaining.
Features:
DropBox: I used it to store my presentation online
Diigo: I used this to compile the majority of my resources. Its a great bookmarking tool
Google maps: Used this site to show students where our field trip will be, I also showed them all the surrounding screen printing shops
Youtube: I used this site as a visual representation on "how to" do a screen printing on a t-shirt
Smart Board: Used this to show the lesson plan.
Google images: I took several pictures from this site to show the difference between real pictures of different images, and Andy Warhol's interpretation of art (pop art)
Text box: Throughout the lesson, I used text boxes to indicate to students what they were visually experiencing.
I had two central issues when designing this project. The first issue was dealing with was my Diigo account. At the beginning of the set up I had no issues adding (bookmarking) items that I wanted. Recently when attempting to add sites onto my page, I was having difficulties, for some reason it wouldn't allow me the opportunity to add more sites. After working with the site for approx an hour, I finally got it to bookmark correctly. The second issue I dealt with was through the drop box site. I downloaded the program, but it wasn't working properly. Next, I downloaded it a second time and it actually worked. Overall, this project was fairly painless, just time consuming. I think the most difficult part was figuring out which tools I should incorporate within my project.
The Net standards for teachers I fulfilled:
1) Facilitate and Inspire student learning and creativity:
During this lesson, students not only learn about a central figure in the pop world, they will also learn how to create their very own pop art using a photograph as well as go to a screen printing facility and make their own t-shirt. This lesson is very creative in the sense that no two projects will be the same, students will be encouraged to think outside the box.
a) Promote, support, and model creative and innovative thinking and inventiveness:
I will be modeling my very own piece of art during the lesson, so students get to see a visual of my expectations. It will also be a guide as to how the art will turn out.
3) Model Digital-Age work and learning
By showing the Youtube clip, students will get to see first hand how to make a screen print. This type of teaching is of a more digital nature in the sense that they are learning outside of the traditional teacher-lecture setting.
5) a. Participate in local and global learning communities to explore creative applications of technology to improve student learning
Again, using the Youtube site, as well as my Diigo account students get the opportunity to learn about the world around them. Students get to participate in a community of outside learners and learn something they most likely have never known about.
Nets for Students:
1) Creativity and Innovation:.
This lesson requires students to not only learn about an art technique, an artist, and vocabulary terms, it also teaches students to be creative. They are required to think outside of the box to create their photo-silk screen, and their t-shirt screen print
2)Communication and Collaboration:
During the process of the lesson, students will have to do a fair amount of collaborative learning. They will be asked to work in groups to share the art material. They will also be asked to come up with their own screen print business after they have designed their work of art. The business they create will also be with their peers. Students will be asked to work in groups of four to make their business.
Project:
This project was so fun to create. I know that I will use it in whatever level class I teach in the future. Its great because it's not only interactive, but its also a very visual and hands on for students that learn in that way. I will use the project in its entirety depending on if we have the opportunity to take an actual field trip or not.