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How to Use Your Smartphone to Create Stunning Light Painting

I am... Dorothea Lange: Exploring Empathy Art Lesson. QR Code Generator - Create QR codes here. An Easy Way to Make a Powerful and Interactive Anchor Chart. When introducing a new medium, we often want to share many techniques with our students.

An Easy Way to Make a Powerful and Interactive Anchor Chart

But, time doesn’t always allow us to dig as deep as we’d like. We don’t want to feel like our students are missing important information, but we don’t want to waste time with countless demonstrations, either. Using an interactive anchor chart to share techniques is an easy way to set your students up for success. Learn how to set one up below. 1. To start, you’ll want to make a series of technique cards. The idea is that students will use this chart to explore more on their own. 2. Our students learn best by seeing. If you’re looking for in-depth information about flipping your content, you’ll want to look at the AOE course Flipping the Art Room. Here is an example of a flipped video you might use in your classroom. 3. Once you have your flipped video content created, you’ll want to upload the files into a video sharing platform like YouTube or Vimeo. 4. Setting up the display is the easy part. How to Make a Clay Pop Art Portrait. HowToPhotographYourArtworkDirections. Take Yourself on a Summer Scavenger Hunt to Find Exemplars for Your Classroom!

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Take Yourself on a Summer Scavenger Hunt to Find Exemplars for Your Classroom!

Art educators often venture into the summer months on the hunt for artistic exemplars. Sometimes we’re searching for specific types of art that correspond with our assignments, and other times we’re simply seeking dynamic work. When we find great examples, we often document them with our cameras. In this way, we can “collect” a wide variety of art to inspire our students. However, have you ever thought about using your camera in a different way? In addition to photographing the work of others, what if you used your own photography to reinforce artistic concepts? BLOG — LIVE SNAP LOVE. With summer officially just around the corner (at least it is if you are reading this as it goes live!)

BLOG — LIVE SNAP LOVE

I’ve got a lazy and breezy summer themed blog post for you today 😃👙☀️🍦🍹 I noticed a definite dip in how many photos I took each year just after my son started school. No longer could I just pick up my camera at any time of day - I had to try to squeeze in photos in the morning (unlikely, since I’m never organised enough to find myself with a spare 5 minutes before school starts) or having to wait until he got home, which in winter, meant it was already getting dark. 5 Quick Tips for Secondary Classroom Management That Actually Work. This fall I will begin my sixth year of teaching, which is still weird to see written down because it seems like just yesterday I was struggling through my first.

5 Quick Tips for Secondary Classroom Management That Actually Work

(And second. And probably third, too, for good measure.) Classroom management was my biggest struggle in those beginning-teaching years. I went in suspecting I would have classroom management in the bag because I’d had pretty extensive experience working with kids from babysitting, being a camp counselor and other volunteer-type roles. But as it turns out, managing a classroom was way different and way more difficult than anything I’d done before. 13 Photography. DIY Holga Pinhole iPhone Camera. Kind of old and creepy looking right?

DIY Holga Pinhole iPhone Camera

I love it. I have an old Holga camera and I love it. I even have a Polaroid attachment (for the peel apart Polaroid film) for the back….the only problem is that the film gets so expensive. What is a Holga? It’s basically a toy camera that is known for it’s photo imperfections: the shadowy vignette, light leaks, distortion. Photographic Weaving: The Process.

Many people are quite confused when I explain the process for my photographic weavings.

Photographic Weaving: The Process

The explanation that I give is, in a nutshell, taking two large photographs of the same size, cutting them into vertical & horizontal strips, and weaving them together. Simple enough, right? However, the conversation typically goes something like this: Them: " So you weave the freeway photos with actual circuit boards? " Me: " No. Maybe it's my lack of clear verbal skills, or maybe it's the dizzying mental barage of freeways, circuit boards, weavings (oh my!) After pinpointing my next freeway victim on Google Earth, I go to the U.S. The aerial photography files are very large and are, therefore, usually sent in sections. In Photoshop I fuse together the four images, determine the size, composition, and do some minor color correction. This initial stage of working out the images is the hardest part for me because it takes a lot of brain power, computer power, and decision making. Day 2 And voila! Image transfer on clay.