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Hi everyone,

wow, now I get the benefits of online resources. The second course to date that embeds ICT and offers a really good mode for the purpose and delivery of teaching resources and networking. I have found many peers that are finding great resources that I would like to share and keep in my pretty little piggybank of ideas so here it is go and visit Emily‘s blog and look at some of the links to resources that she has found they are really useful.

Liking this more and more bye for now

Flee

Puppets

Puppets: LinkedIn

Using hebal block (sorry not sure of correct spelling) and plasticine mouldings the face with clay tool produced an interesting look, though only temporary even with spay on sealer.

LinkedIn Profile

Hi everyone,

Check out my LinkedIn profile Here!

 

Art Resources

Hi everyone,

over the weekend this space will provide arts teachers with some valuable resources that can be adapted and used to suit your students. In this time feel to comment or add any ideas you’d think helpful.

 

Video and YouTube

Ok so some good things are happening I’m am finding some cool items to show my year 12 art class for their new unit on Urban Narratives and really like the visual walk through of art galleries like David Hockney and how them moving image shows the placement of works in relation to theme and context, this will give the students a great visual concept of displaying art and how narratives are displayed to tell a story.

Bye for now 

Flee

ICT in the class

Hello friends, 

Well I have discovered that there are a few uses for ICT in the art classroom, Digital photos, video diaries, research and information, inspiration and curating year 12 bodies of work. I am looking at introducing a blog post for students to include researched artists in an online collaboration and working with video and photo editing. I was very impressed by the new edition available for Microsoft office called Office mix the new feature allows for interactive PowerPoint presentations which can question and answer quizzes through the process, I advise looking at it, though be wary does not work on iPads ( my primary device).

Well good luck for now 

Flee

ICT frustration

Ok so once again I am not a fan, it has come time to submit the next assignment and here I am stuck 

This symbol on three pages gas me paused in limbo. I know there are ways to get around this but for me I am at the disadvantage of teenage children that use technology in ways that cause other programs to freeze… Ie. My assignment. Why are good old fashioned hand written assignments no longer used, why can we not assess what a person can do with their hands … I would like to know why ICT needs to be so integrated not used as just a tool to help!

Sorry all rant over

Art and ICT

Hi friends,

Once again I find myself questioning ICT, I feel great pleasure when I create works of art knowing that it is a one of a kind symbol/ reflection of the person that has created it. So by using ICT and other technologies that can reproduce or mass produce, is it not taking away the importance of hands on techniques, also for English the use of written text, indexing a book and resourcing or reading not googling it. Are these skills that are becoming lost?

Why?

Hi friends,

 Well I am so far behind and have to say that I really feel that ICT learning is not for everyone. Do not get me wrong I have seen some wonderful work from my fellow peers, my issue is with me. I do not get the advantages that others appear to get from this style of learning, with this in mind I would be naive to believe that it would be the best possible way to teach all students as, I am sure there would be a few students that do not follow as they should like myself. So what to do? This is the question, as it does need to be incorporated, but should there not be other options for those that do not follow or can even stand forthatmattertospend so much time sitting on their bottoms in front of a computer. Was it not Rousseau‘s theory of learning that brings learning back to nature, I personally feel more energised and productive doing rather than sitting, taking my texts or objective outside and using it within real circumstances. Why are we teaching the next generation to avoid the very nature within and around us, to sit for hours on end in front of a screen that causes more harm than good? Such as cyber bullying, eye problems, social naivety, anxiety, social dysfunction, solitude, communicational difficulties, poor posture, headaches, weight issues, poor diet and I’m sure there are others. I can see some point in technology and learning, I just personally feel that there can be too much.

Bye for now

Flee

Concept maps

Hi friends, 

Once again time has run away from me, it is now the end of the third week and I being the prehistoric creature that I feel like I am, is only just catching up with week twos learning path. 

Well as it is I have really liked making this mind map. Ideas from other students like Emily and Rheanna opened up further possibilities. So here are some concepts that I have found connect to ICT and ones that may cause problems. 

 
I would be interested to see what others think or could add, as I am still finding ICT as more of a negative aspect of learning as I feel like the only reason to use it is because it is the way f the future and that we have too.

Do not get me wrong I use different devices on a daily basis, (I live with my iPhone) my problem is in the core skills that old school methods has taught me that I have witnessed through my own children ( incapable of really problem solving and working out/ through ideas) as equally equivalent and necessary for complete meta-cognition. This article found online (I know contradictory) Teachers and ICT, really got me thinking about thinking and how these sort of (Google, iPads, data, documents, etc) resources are only a tool and do not seem to really teach us anything. Take for example a word document, here we write down all this information on what we are told to write about from “research” in a specific format, which automatically edits (though not always correct) our work for us and we submit this as learning. What have I learned? Well frankly I learned how to use ICT to work for me; the content, I may have rote read, but is it interesting? Will I use it again?  This I believe is for the individual, what I would like is a better way to engage learning for different people  using a Gardner’s multiple intelligences theory, producing different methods for skill/ knowledge based lessons that shows how to tackle problems from different ways for all people. Cause let’s face it in the real world if we can not get the messages or instructions across to everyone then we are not teachers, learners, thinkers we are rote, just robots doing what we are told not comprehending why we do what we do. 

Wanting to go outside the box and think about why we should, why we think we should, are there any other possibilities, am I open to new ideas and perspectives, is this the message I want to deliver or is there another alternative?

Pondering for now!