Today’s The Daily Create asks users to take a color photo and make it black and white. I took 2 shots of the Washington Monument and changed the color setting in iPhoto.
Tag: Photos
The art teacher at Harvie Elementary, Jordan Flower, has transformed the hallways into a street art exhibit. The students in multiple grade levels have been learning about Street Art. Street Art is usually viewed as destructive and “underground”. However, if you look closely at the work that street artists create, and not so much where it is created, it’s clear that it is art. At last years Oscars, a street artist named Banksy was receiving a lot of attention because of his role in the nominated film Exit Through the Gift Shop. The film took you on secretive missions to create works on nontraditional canvases around the world.[1. I have watched it 3 times from start to finish.] The students at Harvie are all familiar with street art and graffiti in their communities. Jordan led them through discussions about art vs. vandalism and the effects, both positive and negative, that can come from street art.
The students at Harvie learned about a couple of different artists and styles, this was a unit studied in Kindergarten through 5th grade. The 4th graders learned about the art of Kenny Random. The 4th graders planned and executed a collaborative art piece, based on the work of Kenny Random, that can be found covering the walls of the school. Other pieces of art include arrows based on the work of Above, and a display of graffiti style “tags” of the student’s names. Below are some images of the pieces around the school as well as Jordan’s lesson plan for the Henrico21 Kenny Random project with 4th grade.
Download the Henrico 21 Lesson Plan
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This past week I have taken a couple of photos that have become a couple of my all-time favorites. They aren’t amazing shots that will be found on the cover of National Geographic or Time magazine. These photos remind me of what school and education, as a whole, are supposed to represent. Pride in your work, trying new things, and having a good time with what you are doing. I got into education because I love to learn, but hated school. It was, and still is, a goal of mine to try to make school a place that is enjoyable to go to and something to look forward to each day. I hope that the students that I had in my classroom still enjoy learning. Now that I have left the classroom and work with entire schools, my focus has been trying to help teachers learn and improve their practice.
So a brief explanation of the pictures I took this past week.
Natalie Clavon (R) and Rhyan Johnson (L) of Harvie Elementary provided a little spontaneous fun at the end of a long day. Rhyan is part of the group of teachers participating in Reflective Friends this year. These two always have a smile on their faces and help make my days at Harvie an enjoyable experience.
Apparently Chief Powhatan was a Steve Jobs fan as well. This photo was taken today in Cheryl Ives’s classroom at Glen Allen Elementary. Like Rhyan, Cheryl is part of the Reflective Friends process. Her students researched a person or topic from the Jamestown era and came up with a script that would help explain the time period to the video’s viewers. I walked into the classroom and immediately had a smile on my face when I saw the boys at the computer. This project was not only fun, but meaningful to the students.
Thanks to each of you who love to make education fun for me and especially for your students!
**Update**
Here is the final video product.
With the internet being available in so many places and people’s need for quick access to resources, intellectual property rights seem to be getting squashed. As a technology educator, I try my best to stress the importance of citing sources and using images/videos that are free use under copyright laws. It is important for my elementary school students to learn the importance of this now, so as they get older and technology evolves, they will be good “digital citizens.”
I found an amazing story online at MSNBC.com about Noam Galai. Noam, originally from Israel, is now living in New York. He took several pictures of himself and posted them onto his Flickr account. His image, actually his face, is now being used in the anti-government protests in the Middle East, book covers in Mexico, and even T-shirts in his own neighborhood. Please take a moment to watch the video below and read the msnbc.com article as well. Check out Noam’s Scream Everywhere page at: http://screameverywhere.com/wordpress/
If you need photos that are copyright free, you can use FlickrCommons.
Landmark College has provided guidelines for correctly citing online resources in APA format.
The Stolen Scream: A Story About Noam Galai from FStoppers on Vimeo.
I had a great day today working with some Kindergartners that were learning their ordinal numbers. We searched the school for items that we could count and put in order. Check out their shots below.
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