1. Sharing something with others became part of our living nowadays. For the younger generation, this concept became even more natural. Through the reading, I learned that this part of sharing knowledge and information with others pervaded into education and developed into a new culture. Students in this generation seem to learn more by sharing rather than the traditional setting of learning, and that ability comes with ease than any other generation in the past. Even so, the spaces where students share information with peers and consume information seemed to already overflow with various information.
2. I felt the need for a new definition of literacy in new media. It is not the typical definition of literacy that we commonly have known as, but the inclusion of broader meaning. Beyond merely the ability to read and write, we now must combine it with a broader meaning of media literacy. For example, in the case of game literacy, we now require understanding on various areas such as sound, music, graphics, and writing, rather than single texts. I think this is an area where art educator needs initiate the change and understand the new meaning of literacy that takes place in media.
10/27/2018
[8/2] "Stop-motion" Lesson Idea
Stop-motion Project collaborating with English class
[Objective]
With the book students choose to read in their English class, students will create stop-motion that determines the story’s ending. Students will outline, write, design, and animate their stories. This project will be divide into three sessions.
[Materials]
Everyday materials like markers, crayons, scissors, glue, poster board, construction paper, and clay.
Session1: Brainstorming/Idea
Steps:
1. Brainstorm stories individually
2. Brainstorm stories in groups
3. Come up with a story
Session2: Introducing Stopmotion and procedure
Steps:
1. Introducing stop-motion is
2. Introducing Photography for stop motion
3. Introducing iMovie and features
Session3: Studio Working
Steps:
1. Build sets and props
2. Shoot photo/ movie
3. Finalize the project
4. Share with classmates
[Objective]
With the book students choose to read in their English class, students will create stop-motion that determines the story’s ending. Students will outline, write, design, and animate their stories. This project will be divide into three sessions.
[Materials]
Everyday materials like markers, crayons, scissors, glue, poster board, construction paper, and clay.
Session1: Brainstorming/Idea
Steps:
1. Brainstorm stories individually
2. Brainstorm stories in groups
3. Come up with a story
Session2: Introducing Stopmotion and procedure
Steps:
1. Introducing stop-motion is
2. Introducing Photography for stop motion
3. Introducing iMovie and features
Session3: Studio Working
Steps:
1. Build sets and props
2. Shoot photo/ movie
3. Finalize the project
4. Share with classmates
[7/2] Reflection on Sound
The sound is all around us. It is something that's always out there. Though listening music takes a huge part of our lives these days, we tend to pay more attention to visual than the sound we are surrounded by. At any given moment we could be listening to pleasant sounds or unpleasant sounds.
In class, we tend to focus more on children’s voice to make them speak up rather than make them pause and listen to what they are surrounded with. Therefore, for a class activity, I would ask them to explore many uses of sound with examples of enjoyable sounds or noises used in a situation.
In class, we tend to focus more on children’s voice to make them speak up rather than make them pause and listen to what they are surrounded with. Therefore, for a class activity, I would ask them to explore many uses of sound with examples of enjoyable sounds or noises used in a situation.
10/23/2018
[7/1] Creative Assignment with Audacity
For this piece, I first recorded three different sounds: the weird sound that my laptop was making, my puppy running toward me with the ball and puppy whining to play with me. For the instrument portion, I chose myself cooking something for breakfast in the kitchen. I added all the sounds into one at once with the program called Audacity.
10/16/2018
[6/2] Creative potential of video in Art classrooms/ education
Creating a video became a more accessible medium than ever before and shifted to a media that many of us have now used more than once and daily basis. Therefore, if the video work combines with the classroom activities and with teaching curriculum, it could be an exciting approach to grab students attention.
With the nature of video that it documents and delivers messages, working with video can be used for a tool to confirm the understanding of the students. By anticipating activity of making a video that requires numerous trials, errors, and collaborations, processes ranging from the very beginning part to the final stage of seeing the final product, it will be an excellent opportunity for students to exercise their potential capabilities. Since with the outcomes of video will be created from the viewpoint of students and, it will be a chance for educators to learn and partake of students world.
With the nature of video that it documents and delivers messages, working with video can be used for a tool to confirm the understanding of the students. By anticipating activity of making a video that requires numerous trials, errors, and collaborations, processes ranging from the very beginning part to the final stage of seeing the final product, it will be an excellent opportunity for students to exercise their potential capabilities. Since with the outcomes of video will be created from the viewpoint of students and, it will be a chance for educators to learn and partake of students world.
10/07/2018
[5/3] Takeaways from Section 2 Readings
[Knobel, M., & Lankshear, C. (2007). A new literacies sampler. New York: P. Lang. Chapter 4, New literacies and social practices of digital remixing.]
In this Chapter, the author addresses that culture is created by remixing of individuals. I find the idea of how remix things in our everyday lives serve as a primary source of culture creation very compelling. For that reason, he suggests not to absorb new ideas but to write and give out opinion about it. Until now, I have looked at the word, culture, something very foreign and distant. This article provided me with a different perspective to view it. Even at this moment, I believe I have been contributing something to the culture that we are living in now.
Peppler, K. A. (2014). New creativity paradigms: arts learning in the digital age. Chapter 3, The New Digital Arts: Forms, Tools, and Practices.
Until I got a chance to read this article, I was not aware of how advancement in technology could impact on a field like in a dance. I always carry this image of technology as an object or tool and often forget social media platform is part of technology. So it was refreshing for me to define the range of technologies and how it smeared into our lives without even realizing it.
Frazel, M. (2010). Digital storytelling guide for educators. Eugene, Or.: International Society for Technology in Education. Chapter 3: Digital Story Production.
This article shares a guide for digital storytelling and provides a very detailed explanation for educators. It even gives details of how to address children who already know how to deal with digital devices. I immediately realized that the process of using a digital project at any moment is not a new learning process that we must learn, but it will become something very natural. For this reason, to not be left behind as an educator, I realized that I should always have an open-minded attitude toward new technologies.
In this Chapter, the author addresses that culture is created by remixing of individuals. I find the idea of how remix things in our everyday lives serve as a primary source of culture creation very compelling. For that reason, he suggests not to absorb new ideas but to write and give out opinion about it. Until now, I have looked at the word, culture, something very foreign and distant. This article provided me with a different perspective to view it. Even at this moment, I believe I have been contributing something to the culture that we are living in now.
Peppler, K. A. (2014). New creativity paradigms: arts learning in the digital age. Chapter 3, The New Digital Arts: Forms, Tools, and Practices.
Until I got a chance to read this article, I was not aware of how advancement in technology could impact on a field like in a dance. I always carry this image of technology as an object or tool and often forget social media platform is part of technology. So it was refreshing for me to define the range of technologies and how it smeared into our lives without even realizing it.
Frazel, M. (2010). Digital storytelling guide for educators. Eugene, Or.: International Society for Technology in Education. Chapter 3: Digital Story Production.
This article shares a guide for digital storytelling and provides a very detailed explanation for educators. It even gives details of how to address children who already know how to deal with digital devices. I immediately realized that the process of using a digital project at any moment is not a new learning process that we must learn, but it will become something very natural. For this reason, to not be left behind as an educator, I realized that I should always have an open-minded attitude toward new technologies.
[5/2] The potential of scanography for art-making
Through the scanning process, we can create an outcome that's unexpected and different from such a mundane object that we see every day. For that matter, it can be considered as a suitable medium for creative work since it helps to provide a new perspective and to avoid preconceptions on a specific object that we may have. For that matter, It will be a tremendous art-making tool for students to experience how an object can turn into a flat image by doing experiments with the scanography method. It will also provide a fun opportunity to experience how 3D object converse to 2D format. Also, since the scanogrpahy allows us to play with multiple layers, possible collaboration project can be taken place with any art-making lesson.
[5/1] Scanographs
Idleness:
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Movement:
10/02/2018
[4/3] Digital Photography in the Classroom
1. The camera is a perfect tool to capture precious moments of anything, and it serves as a suitable medium for recording the flow of time. Because of that reason, I thought about a lesson plan that would allow students to record the changes in shapes that occur over the time. I want students to focus and pay attention to small detail, such as observing shadows and lighting that change over time in the same space.
2. I thought about the lesson that records students daily life by a camera. It will create personal narratives from visual images that students take with the camera as a journal. Also by doing so, they can also be representative of each student’s personal goals, interests, and future aspirations.
3. Activity with digital photography can not only apply in art education, but also for classes with other subjects. For example, by creating collages with the pictures they took of their own can be used for reflection for a literature class.
2. I thought about the lesson that records students daily life by a camera. It will create personal narratives from visual images that students take with the camera as a journal. Also by doing so, they can also be representative of each student’s personal goals, interests, and future aspirations.
3. Activity with digital photography can not only apply in art education, but also for classes with other subjects. For example, by creating collages with the pictures they took of their own can be used for reflection for a literature class.
[4/2] Impact25work
Quinta and I teamed up to work on Impact25 Project.
In our impact 25, we are planning to do an object exchange performance. In this performance, we will start with our own object. This is the object that we think it has great potential to be changed by technology in the next decade. It can be anything. A pencil, a plastic bag, a folk, an iPad, a flower. We are planning to do this performance around the library cafe and the lobby. We will ask the participant the question, 'Can you exchange with me what you think will be changed by technology in the next decade?' and 'what do you think the object will change?'. During the process, we will use the Instagram LIVE to record the whole process. Also, we ask the participants to post their exchanged object in their Instagram with #thiswillbeamagicaltechnology（This will be a magical technology). On the other hand, if the participants want to find their object back, they can search #thiswillbeamagicaltechnology in the Instagram and make a contact with that person.
[4/1] Creative Assignment
This image was taken during class when asked to observe something around Teachers College.
2 Ideas For Creative Component:
Idea #1: I thought of the idea of drawing a watercolor piece that resembles the mood and the colors in the pictures that I took during the class.
Idea #2: I had this urge to give a life into this static looking ceramic samples in this pictures. So I came up with an idea of turning this photography into an animation (GIF).
Idea #2
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