10-27-09 Assignments

I am out sick today -- hope to be in school tomorrow and look forward to seeing you on Thursday!

You have two assignments today:

1. You will explore websites and create a powerpoint of images and ideas about conflict. You can copy and paste images; type; you can also printscreen and paste the whole screen image. you can then crop the image to take out all the extra bits. Please, please, please resize the images proportionately! go to the corner of the image, hold down the shift key, and reduce or increase the size proportionately! Thank you

Check out these websites:

Since we have more students than computers, please share - but be sure you are working and not socializing =0)

• http://www.artfulcitizenship.org/main_content.html
• http://animoto.com/
• http://www.learner.org/
• http://www.life.com/
• http://www.vtshome.org/
• http://www.pics4learning.com/
• http://photojojo.com/content/
  

2. Read the article at the PAT blog. (The link is also below)
Write a response to the article by addressing each of these questions:

• What is the main idea of the article? How do you know?
  
• What is the author's purpose in writing this article? Does the author have a bias or point of view? Explain how this bias influences the article.
  
• How do you fit in to this article? Do you relate more to the author, one of the people the author writes about? Who? Explain.
  

You may write your response in your journal or loos paper or you may type into your blog as a new post. Title the post "Article Response"

All of today's work will be graded and counted in to the next 9 weeks grading period.

Link to article:http://wolfsonianpat.blogspot.com/2009/08/at-louvre-many-stop-to-snap-but-few.html

PAT Conflict Diary

Go to the wiki to download the PAT Conflict Diary Worksheet

http://learnandserve.pbworks.com/Visual+Technology+I+-+Nadel

Thank you, Mrs. Nadel

Fees $$$

We need to collect the fees for the class this week.

Please go directly to the Treasurer, Ms. Concepcion to pay your $20.00 fee for class. Especially now, with the PAT project, we will need your fees for materials and supplies.

The full amount of your fees will go towards materials and supplies that you will use to create your work.

Thank you for your cooperation! Mrs. Nadel

First PAT Field trip - Friday October 16, 2009

Remember to get your field trip forms signed and back to Mrs. Nadel by Thursday, October 15th.

Due to the PSAT, we may not have class on Wednesday. So, you are responsible for getting me your completed and signed field trip forms before or after school or on your way to or from lunch.

Thank you! Mrs. Nadel

If you want access to Wolfsonian-FIU PAT blog and NING website

If you would like access to the Wolfsonian-FIU Page-At-a-Time blog and NING website, you may email Ms. Sullivan, from the Wolfsonian-FIU, directly, to ask for access.

If you do email her, please consider using your new school email address.

Her email address is claudia@thewolf.fiu.edu

Set up your STUDENT EMAIL account!

Log in to STUDENT PORTAL

go to email@live.com tab

LAUNCH EMAIL

you will have to change the password -- so ask me for it before you start the process.

once your email is set up, send me an email

knadel@dadeschools.net

Check Out the PAT Blog

Artist, designers, students,

Please be sure you are checking in with all our tehcnology resources and communications, collaborations workspaces.

http://wolfsonianpat.blogspot.com/

What is Conflict?

what happened?

how did you feel?

your ideas?

questions?

Thoughts on Papermaking

http://gort.ucsd.edu/preseduc/papermak.htm

School Volunteers

http://community.dadeschools.net/!svp/school-vol.asp

Mayra, could you please add a links list on the blog and add the volunteer link above - thank you

Page At a Time - PAT - PROCESS

Hi Damarys,

It’s so great to hear from you. Thank you so much for your hospitality, Kate and I had a great time visiting your classroom. We came away very impressed with your enthusiasm and leadership.

These are the steps to follow in terms of starting the design process.

Goals-

Firstly, the goal of this year’s Page a Time project is twofold for your class. The primary goal is for you class to design a book (or books if you wish) that focuses on a conflict and it possible resolution. The secondary objective, is to share your experiences of the design process with the middle school students so that they learn from you how to go about making their own separate class book. Most likely the middle school will work on only ONE book.

How you will do it-

First steps for you:

#1) Define conflict. To do this brainstorm with the class. Think about personal experiences as well as formal definitions found in different dictionaries.

#2) Once you have compiled a “universe” of ideas, begin to separate the most important ones in the following categories:Personal conflict

• Military conflict
• Economic conflict
• Social conflict
• Modern conflict

#3) Choose the top 5 conflicts – and provide evidence (through research in newspapers, or books) as to why you think these conflicts merit having a hand-make book creation.

# 4) Record your process in NING network or the PAT blog. I will send you an invite for both at your hotmail address. You can document the process by taking pictures and writing a summary or by creating a series of short videos clips (like a mini movie) explaining how you went about defining conflict.

#5) When you come to the museum you will class members make a presentation (that I will record on video) that explain to me #1) how you defined conflict, #2) the reasons for choosing the top 5 conflicts and what evidence you have to support your choice of conflict. Why should a topic be chosen as the subject of a hand-made book? At this time we can also discuss what direction to take in terms of creating a book. Will you make one book for the whole class, or several? What are the pros and cons?

#6) During your field trip we will also discuss the ways you will be assisting the middle school students more concretely.

Work for Friday October 2, 2009

As always, you are my EYES, and are therefore precious to me.

Wolfsonian Page at a Time - PAT

• http://pageatatime.org/

1. Damarys will go over our upcoming collaboration with the WOLFSONIAN --

• brainstorm ideas of CONFLICT
• think about/get into teams
• start thinking about working with the students from Ms. Rodriguez-Graber's class
  (her classes are mixed 6th, 7th, 8th graders)
• go to the PAT website and look through the previous student PAT books and the colleciotn of books at the Wolfsonian

You have a READING and RESEARCH assignment...

• go to http://americanart.si.edu/
• http://americanart.si.edu/education/picturing_the_1930s/

THis will help you to get situated to work at the Wolfsonian

Your assignment -- due TUESDAY -- is

1. select on work of art from the collection
2. create your own version or homage to that work of art but UPDATED to fit our circumstances / conditions today
3. you may use any medium -- drawing, collage, painting, sculpture, photo montage
4. BUT your work has to relate back to the original
5. write a relfecton about why you chose the particular work of art; how tht work is still relevant and meaningful to us today; what you did to update the work; how your work relates back to the original

Grading Rubric

Overall style, completeness, quality ..... 15%

Eyes of the Gladiators Blog List

Students please post your blog links in the comments. please include your name. thank you.

Fairchild Challenge: CD Cover

Band Name: Storey
Song Name: Footprints

The Challenge: create a CD cover which refelcts Storey's single.

Must Include:
-- logo
-- name of band
-- name of song
-- representation of song
-- 5 x 5

Along with the CD cover, must include:
-- 100 word explanation of where the design came from
-- 100 word essay on how you can reduce carbon footprints.

link to lyrics :
http://www.fairchildgarden.org/uploads/docs/Education/Challenge/2010/Footprints_Lyrics.pdf

link to youtube video:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-PdKyu8iqQ

band website:
http://www.arronstorey.com/

Class Leadership Positions

Teacher/ Advisor

• Mrs. Nadel

Class President

• Damarys Ferrer

Vice President

• Loamis Rodriguez

Treasurer

• Jenessia Espinosa

Secreatary

• Mayra Maradiaga
  

P.R

• Maria Lumbi

Welcome to Visual Technology

welcome to Mrs. Nadel's period 4 Visual Technology. You have now officially become the eyes of the gladiators.