Show contributors: Carol Broos @musictechie Tricia Fuglestad @fuglefun Brenda Muench @bmuench Jen Kolze @clarinet_jen Today’s Topic: How do we navigate the Holidays in the arts? Holiday/Winter Concerts, Art work, Plays etc. Carol - Always have done a Holiday Concert.’ Brenda - We do a CHRISTMAS concert here. I only get to be in the concert space for 3 hours on the morning of the concert. Serious limitations! Jen - 3rd-8th Grade Winter Choral Concert with a variety of snow, Christmas, Hanukkah, & Kwanzaa songs as well as non-holiday songs; 3rd Grade class concert also in December - this year, putting on a mini-musical all about snow called SnowBiz! Tricia- This is a great time to have student create winter landscapes, explore visual texture by drawing polar bears, still life of hot cocoa and cookies, sculptural snowmen, etc. but use this subject matter to continue teaching curricular content (not crafts). My students have a lot of extra energy from being excited about the holidays. So, I change up the projects to more group work. Right now I have a group working on an Art Room Theme song and video: http://fugleflicks.wikispaces.com/X-secret+in+progress+stuff Tool/ App/ Word/ Question of the week? (you decide) Cool website we found Each contributor can share one cool thing, either website or app: Carol: one secret https://onetimesecret.com/ This allows you to send sensitive information in a safe way knowing it's seen by one person only. Think of it like a self-destructing message. New hardware Point-to-view document camera - $69, can record and take pictures. http://www.ipevo.com/prods/Point-2-View-USB-Camera Amazon - http://www.amazon.com/IPEVO-Point-View-USB-Camera/dp/B002UBPBTC Music App http://www.winksound.com/page/About-WinkSound Free music and audio, plus videos on reason, protools and more. On internet and app on smart phones. Jen: 2 websites for “effective and timely feedback” http://www.flubaroo.com/ It is intergrated with google apps and you can chart and grade students. http://www.socrative.com/ Socrative is a smart student response system that empowers teachers to engage their classrooms through a series of educational exercises and games via smartphones, laptops, and tablets. Tricia: I love Simon’s cat animations. I’ve been showing this one, “Simon’s Cat in Santa Claws” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nn2h3_aH3vo&feature=related Then I have students take our their sketchbook and draw along with this tutorial video from the artist, Simon Tofield, of how to draw cat: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MlDhfzKQyD8&feature=share Brenda: Ipod -Tap Studio Pro app - make your own “guitar hero like” game for your own songs http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/tap-studio-pro/id353933710?mt=8 Brenda created individual parts for each iPod so students could practice their part for the concert. Next week: Transliteracy and the arts |
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