I Am Now Done With Introductions
Well, it is now my planning period. I have eaten my lunch and I am back in The Fishbowl typing away.
I have completed two straight days, six straight classes full of the same lecture over and over again. This was my "Rules of the Fishbowl" that I talked about yesterday. I am now done with this. I'm glad, I got tired of all the yelling.
Tomorrow, network willing, we will start doing actual computer stuff. Just as a working pre-assessment, I will be spending the first couple of days or week with each class going over some basic Fireworks Graphic Arts stuff. It will not be anything hard, just creating shapes, using fills and strokes, using layers, transparencies, stuff like that. I am hoping that it will be fun, but that it will also give me a good idea of where different kids' skill levels are and how well they learn new material.
The first assignment is based upon a cool online work of Graphic Art called The Zoom Quilt. We will take a look at The Zoom Quilt and will talk a little bit about what it is and how it works. Of course, the kids won't have the skills to create a real Zoom Quilt, but we will be doing something similar on a 2 dimensional level. Each kid will be given the task of creating a single tile of a fixed size. They are to make the tile using Fireworks and the skills we learn over the next couple of days. There will be a unifying thread to these tiles, just like in The Zoom Quilt, an orange line. The Orange Line will flow from tile to tile when the tiles are all connected at the end of the project. The individual tiles will be personalized by the artist, but each will have the unifying orange line. When all of the tiles are completed, I will print them out, link them together, laminate them and post them up around the top wall of the room. I am hoping that it will be a good opening project.
I have completed two straight days, six straight classes full of the same lecture over and over again. This was my "Rules of the Fishbowl" that I talked about yesterday. I am now done with this. I'm glad, I got tired of all the yelling.
Tomorrow, network willing, we will start doing actual computer stuff. Just as a working pre-assessment, I will be spending the first couple of days or week with each class going over some basic Fireworks Graphic Arts stuff. It will not be anything hard, just creating shapes, using fills and strokes, using layers, transparencies, stuff like that. I am hoping that it will be fun, but that it will also give me a good idea of where different kids' skill levels are and how well they learn new material.
The first assignment is based upon a cool online work of Graphic Art called The Zoom Quilt. We will take a look at The Zoom Quilt and will talk a little bit about what it is and how it works. Of course, the kids won't have the skills to create a real Zoom Quilt, but we will be doing something similar on a 2 dimensional level. Each kid will be given the task of creating a single tile of a fixed size. They are to make the tile using Fireworks and the skills we learn over the next couple of days. There will be a unifying thread to these tiles, just like in The Zoom Quilt, an orange line. The Orange Line will flow from tile to tile when the tiles are all connected at the end of the project. The individual tiles will be personalized by the artist, but each will have the unifying orange line. When all of the tiles are completed, I will print them out, link them together, laminate them and post them up around the top wall of the room. I am hoping that it will be a good opening project.
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