Pinterest Refracting Rainbow Project

Refracting Rainbow

 

 

Click in on this link to view this Art activity in full detail:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1BPVCkO8zxIOn9uUgKZMAAkbpTZim46xgVva4VU0c__8/edit?usp=sharing

 

 

Here is a quick insight on how the process of this assignment works:

 

 

First start off by getting three see through glasses. Make sure you've got a good light source for this project! It helps!

 

Then after you have your three glasses, your going to want to take those and fill them up with quite a bit of water. For students, make sure they do all this over the sink, or it might get pretty messy.

 

The picture on the bottom right let's you know about how much water you'll need in the glasses. After you've got the glasses all filled up you'll need to grab your food coloring dye.

 

Take your food coloring dye. In each glass, put one of the primary colors of dye in the glasses. You should have a glass that has red water, a glass that has blue water, and a glass that has yellow water.

 

 

Now you'll have students run through the activity. This is how the project will look through their eyes, up close and personal.

 

 

You'll have students go through all of the steps in the lesson plan which again, is included in the link at the beginning of this post.

This is just one of the many ways that teachers can use Pinterest in their classrooms. You can use Pinterest to find new lesson plans for your classrooms or share new ones with other teachers. Pinterest can be used as a way to collaborate amongst each other in a creative, yet professional manner.

 

Be sure to check out my Pinterest Page for more fun and exciting and art lesson plans! Just got to the Spring 2014 Ed Tech board!

http://www.pinterest.com/anna28lee/ed-tech-spring-2014/

 

 

 



 

 

 

 



Tools for the Art Teacher's Classroom

Anna Lee Bell

EDU 3043: Instructional Technology

April 1^st, 2014

 If your looking for some great tools to use in the classroom, these are the ones for art teachers! This is a great way to integrate technology into an art classroom. All of the credits on the website came from http://cooltoolsforschools.wikispaces.com/ and you can find even more great resources!

1.       Livebrush

http://www.livebrush.com/

Livebrush is an easy to use drawing application for digital art. It employs an easy-to-use  brush tool that reacts to your gesture. It is definitely a fun way to create unique graphics.   Students can use this brush tool in order to create new works of art more freely instead of having to click on a mouse every time they want to make a brush stroke on the computer.  Students can share styles and see how others combine their brush with your ideas or vice versa.

2.       Your Fonts

http://www.yourfonts.com/

Your Fonts is an online font generator that allows you to create your own fonts. It allows you to create your own digital signature to sign contracts. Not only that but Your Fonts can be used in programs such as Microsoft Word and more. Students can create appropriate signatures for their digital art works that accurately reflect their style and go with the piece. Students can also use these fonts and use them in graphic pieces where they can further manipulate them.

3.       Go Animate

http://goanimate.com/

Go Animate allows you to create animations and share or use them. It allows flexibility with working in that you can use scripting/storyboarding,  voice recording, create visual excitement, and publish works. It includes unlimited creation, downloading, and hosting for animated videos. Students can express themselves artistically while learning important artistic skills in technology that can prepare them for real world jobs. Students can also use Go Animate to social network themselves in the business world and even create animated resumes to impress future employers.

4.       Clay Animate

http://www.clayanimator.com/

Clay Animate is a Claymation and stop motion creation site. ClayAnimator.com contains the most in depth information on the clay animation and stop motion animation process. The Clay Animator website demonstrates the stop motion animation technique by using interactive tutorials, lessons, pictures and video. Students can discover the art and science of creating, animating, and editing clay and stop motion animation projects. Students can also explore what all goes into clay animation and stop motion to see if they would like to go down that path for their artistic careers.

5.       Panther

http://pantherprogramming.weebly.com/

Panther is a programming language aimed at young users with only a small knowledge of programming. Panther offers you a more advanced version of Scratch, a simple programming language developed at MIT. With new features such as file and webpage manipulation and advanced color sensing, cloning and much more besides, Panther provides advanced usage for avid Scratchers around the globe as well as new programmers looking for a fluid, easy to understand starting language. This could help students learn new skills at an earlier age to help them later in school. Not only that, but it could even give them an upper edge for finding a career.

6.       Kodu

http://www.kodugamelab.com/

Kodu lets kids create games on the PC and Xbox via a simple visual programming language. Kodu can be used to teach creativity, problem solving, storytelling, as well as programming. Anyone can use Kodu to make a game, young children as well as adults with no design or programming skills. Students could use this to express themselves creatively and explore what all they can do as individuals. This could give students an insight on what making video games for a living could be like.

7.       Stencyl

http://www.stencyl.com/

Stencyl is the quickest and easiest way to creating a game. It allows anyone to publish their games to iPhone, iPad, Android, Flash, Windows & Mac games without needing any codes. Stencyl allows the user to freely create avatars and worlds for the settings of their games. Students could use this program to create something an find out how other users would feel about their concept. This way students can get feedback on their creations and make improvements while still keeping their original idea intact.  

8.       Google Sketch Up

http://www.sketchup.com/?gclid=CLDxjrvMtb0CFVFp7AodaFkAkQ

With Google Sketch Up you start by drawing lines and shapes. Push and pull surfaces to turn them into 3D forms. Stretch, copy, rotate and paint to make anything you like. If you want to be productive within a couple of hours, you’ve come to the right place. Students can use this tool to visualize what it would be like to draw physically the object. This can also help students to visualize 2D and 3D objects so they can get a better sense of how to set objects and subjects into space and on planes for other areas of their artwork.

9.       Chogger

http://chogger.com/

With Chogger, users can create their own artistic comic strips. It allows you to draw pictures, use real life taken pictures, and use a variety of different tools to create your comic. It also comes with an easy to understand layout. Students could use this tool to follow an assignment I give, such as if this happened, what would follow. It would allow students to creatively express themselves while still learning critical thinking and problem solving skills from the teacher.

10.   OoVoo

http://www.oovoo.com/home.aspx

With Oovoo you can video chat with up to 12 different lines of interaction. Their video technology automatically detects and adjusts for connection speed, which means less dropped calls. When your email can't do the heavy lifting,  use ooVoo to send large files (up to 25 MB per file) to your friends. This is great for students to interact with other art students at different schools or to try and communicate with other children in a different country. It will help them collaborate with others and expand their understanding of diversity and culture.

Jobs Through Social Media?



How about getting a job through Social Networking instead of filling out boring paperwork and having to meet someone face to face? Sounds too good to be true.  Can you get a job through social media? Maybe. I'm going to be straight -- it's not the all-purpose job hunting solution that some of have made it out to be. But, you can definitely get a job through social media if you are willing to put yourself out there.

You need to be passionate about what you are talking about. If you're not, your writing will seem dull, you'll have to force yourself to do it, and you probably won't keep things up to date.  If you want social media to work for you, you need to spend time with it. Daily. Like a friend.

Does your social media presence reflect what you want to do professionally? It doesn't have to be focused on your professional career, but it needs to reflect who you are there. It's part of your big picture, so you better make sure that picture is positive. If it's not, make your social media presence either anonymous or locked down with privacy settings.

Social media works best with relationships that you build year after year. So, don't start a Twitter account today with the idea that you'll shut it down in three months after you land that new job. Just skip it altogether and use more traditional methods of finding a job. Social media can be a great way to find a job if you decide you want to go that route. It doesn't take the place of networking and traditional applications, of course, but it can open doors.

So yes, Social Networking can be a great way to find resources for jobs, but for the most part it would be better to stick to the traditional route. So happy job hunting! Look below to read more!

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/should-you-hunt-for-a-job-using-social-media/

Effects of Social Networking



How could Social Networking have kinks in it if I'm writing this blog? Well, let's think about it.
As I am writing this blog, you cannot see my face. You are not making a personal connection with me on a basic level. The only thing you see from this are the words that I am typing. However, that doesn't mean that social networking is bad.

There can be a lot of benefits to being a part of social networking. We are able to speak to people across the world and connect with friends and family across the world.Social media quickly breaks down personal barriers. People will post things to their Facebook accounts that they probably never would have called dozens of people over the phone to share. While there are certainly pros and cons to oversharing, this proves that social media isn’t as isolating as some believe. Rather than eroding our writing skills, this has sharpened them. Blogging, in particular, is a powerful way for people to improve their writing. Most successful bloggers know they only have a few seconds to draw a reader in before he clicks away. Short punchy sentences and the active voice are taking over as the most popular way to communicate in writing. Where writing was once a solitary activity, it has now become a very social way to communicate. Before the Internet, most people wrote to communicate with one other person. Now we reach hundreds or thousands of people with a single post.

There are a few cons as well though. Where speakers once saw the eyes of their listeners, they’re now seeing the backs of laptops and tops of heads. Speaking to this type of audience is an unsettling experience for some, but it’s just one more change that we’ll have to adapt to. With the prevalence of smartphones and popularity of texting, chances are you’ve been with someone who was there, but not quite there. It’s not uncommon to see people glued to their technology even in social settings.

So yes, Social Networking is changing the way things work in the world, but you can't just look at the negative side, you must also look at the positive. It is maybe human nature that should change. Though technology can be fun, we should prioritize to make sure we are not losing the best part of us: Humanity.

http://socialmediatoday.com/karenn1617/1745751/effects-social-media-how-we-speak-and-write

In Love With Fashion

This is some really great work! Love the color and the way they use a balance between cool and warm colors even though it's a primarily warm piece! Plus those flesh tones must have been really hard! Ya'll should go check out more amazing art like this one on the following website! They've got everything from paintings, to photos, to illusions. Really cool stuff here guys! It was photographed for one of Middle East’s largest fashion retailers, Splash, and it is all about showing current trends from the runways. The most stunning image is “Love Floral” shown above, which elaborately mixes patterns in an aesthetic way, and it also resembles religious art of Our Lady of Guadalupe with bright colors and aura rays. It's titled In Love with Fashion. You may not have seen photography quite like this yet!

http://illusion.scene360.com/art/55155/in-love-with-fashion/

Welcome to Artsy Fartsy!

Welcome everyone to the most Artsy Fartsy blog in existence! My name is Anna Lee Bell and I am a student at Henderson State University. I live in Arkadelphia, AR, it's my hometown! I am currently pursuing a Bachelor's Degree for Art Education with a minor in Digital Art and Design. I live with my fiance, Nick Thibodeaux, and we have one cat Teagan. Some of my major interests involve fitness, Netflix, and of course art! I love art and I see everything as  piece of art whether it is a person, tree, canvas, photo, you name it! I love to learn new things and see things in a different light. I mainly love to do things like Digital Art, Ceramics, or painting.  Exploring life and all it's mysteries takes up the majority of my time. Whether it's trying a new food or learning new things it's so exciting! I'm starting this blog so that way I can track my personal progress as an artist and what I like and so also that other artists can look on this and see a wonderful compilation of art and maybe find inspiration from it. This blog is all about me, my art, and art that I admire. We consider all things art here from paintings, to photographs, to nature, etc! I'll also be sharing some great places to get art supplies from where you can find the best deals! Not only that, but if you are pursuing art I will be posting tutorials on topics, how you could teach art in education, and much more! So whenever you need that creative spark just come visit! Thanks ya'll!

-AB

Below is a painting of me and Nick! This was 4 years ago at our Prom in high school!  :)