Reflection on Interactivity #5

Interactivity #5

The adjustments I made to my lesson was adding computer software: adobe photoshop, as a technology and placing it under student centered strategies: Production. I am accommodating my lesson for copyright and fair use in a few ways. For digital cameras there is really no copyright materials besides making sure to get permission while taking photos of people. That is not even a law, that is just to avoid conflict and arguments. Another way to deal with this is distributing a paper to the class that they can show whoever is around while they are taking pictures. The paper can be a written statement that this is for a class assignment and not for a social website like facebook. For computers and Internet there are a few guidelines students must follow to ensure no copyright infringement. As an educator you must make sure that the photographs and images students are using are not in a copyright collection. Students' also cannot take more than five images from one artist. This will take a time adjustment for the lesson because the teacher will have to go through all the students images to make sure that there is no copyright ownership on any images. When students are on the internet they may download images for a project, so there are no adjustments there. For computer software such as adobe photoshop that the students are using there will be a need for extra time to make sure all the computers attached are allowed to have photoshop distributed. Students can also copyright their own photos to make sure that others do not steal their work. This will also take time to show each student how to do this. The amount of media used will have to fall in the fair use guidelines because students will only be able to use five images from one artist, and they have to make sure they other images they use are not copyrighted. The Artsonia website has many rules to follow when creating a portfolio for your students. Photographs of children under the age of 18 are not allowed to be posted even if it is of yourself. Students under the age of 18 will not be able to use any of their photos for the Artsonia portfolio. I may have to alter this part of the lesson for them. I will most likely ask the class as a group if they want to include pictures of people in their collage? If so they cannot make a online portfolio. They will have the option of presenting it to the class in person instead.

Although the lesson I used was not modified to an extreme there are a few important things that teachers must make sure they do after reviewing the fair use for educators. These guidelines were very useful to me because a lot of technologies used in art class have to do with viewing images on the internet. Copyrighted images can be a huge problem if you don't look to make sure that they are not in a copyright collection. It is a simple thing you can do to make sure you are not doing anything illegal. I think the lesson I chose is instructionally creative because it gives students' the chance to express a place that means a lot to them, and they can take their own photos or use images that they find on the internet. After reviewing what I need to do to make sure my lesson falls in the fair use category, I realize that a lot of time will need to be spent going over what my students are finding on the internet and what they are putting on the Artsonia website.

"Art can Heal"

Computers In Art Class Bring Success to Students with Learning Disabilities

I was so excited to find this article because it has to do with my last experience at fieldwork (which I wrote about in my last blog). This is an article about a teacher who believes that art is a great class to incorporate technology into, specifically computers. He works at a school that is designed to teach to students' with disabilities. This article includes lesson plans used with some aspect of technology. His hope is to introduce some students' to a career path having to do with technology. He really has some great ideas!

Technology in an Art Lesson

During fieldwork last week my co-op teacher asked me to take over her General Art class, which includes students with special needs. They previously made a paper mache sculpture of their initials the week before and they were going to be either collaging the outside, or using other mixed media to cover the paper mache. During the class that I was helping with I took the students to the media lab and told them that they had to use the internet to find different fonts, and then write their name in a word document multiple times but make sure that each one was written in a different font, and size. Their names would eventually be cut out and collaged to their initial sculture. The students really enjoyed working in the computer lab as a change of pace, and I was pleasantly surprised with how creative they were with this project even though it was just looking up different fonts and adding them to their names.

Originally I thought art was a hard subject to incorporate technology into but after observing lesson plans, and also reading articles for this class as well as for Read 411 I am starting to see how easily it can be to incorporate technology into my lessons. I am also noticing how well the students respond to technology. The students in the general art class loved working with computers and the internet for the day. Although some of the students may have disabilities more severe than others they are still teenagers that love technology just as much as any other. I was really happy with the way they worked that day, and noticed that they stayed on task more than any other day in the art room.

Reflection on Interactivity #4

My Spreadsheet

I chose this lesson plan because I thought the idea of picking a place that was meaningful to the students to represent in a collage would make them really interested in the activity. I also liked how it incorporates many types of technologies and the student can pick and choose a technology they are more comfortable with, or maybe one they have not used and would like to try. By giving students the option of choosing images and text from either the internet, their own photos or magazine photos that can be scanned I feel that each student can identify with a chosen technology and create a successful art piece.

I thought that the lesson plan’s, goals, strategies, and technologies worked together pretty seamlessly. I did add the strategies that I thought corresponded with the lesson because the author did not have any attached with the lesson plan. I also added displaying student work as a student-centered strategy that was not in the lesson plan. I think it is important to show students knew ways of displaying their work, and websites like Artsonia and Flickr can do that.

Digital cameras, Adobe Photoshop, Scanners, and Computers all helped in this lesson to achieve the curriculum goals mentioned. These technologies are essential in students learning to produce artwork in new mediums, and they are also appropriate methods for this lesson in creating visual art.

Interesting Article: A school that does not use technology

TECHNOLOGY

A Silicon Valley School That Doesn’t Compute

By MATT RICHTEL

Published: October 22, 2011

The Waldorf School’s computer-free environment has become a draw for parents at high-tech companies like Google

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/23/technology/at-waldorf-school-in-silicon-valley-technology-can-wait.html